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<p n="636">To the Worshipful his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50859_occ171">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the Court<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50859_geo515">Middlesex</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_geo515" type="placeName" value="Middlesex"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_geo515" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
in their General Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled</p>
<p n="637">The Petition and Appeal of the Several Inhabitants Owners<lb></lb>
and Occupiers of Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50859_geo516">parish of<lb></lb>
Ealing</rs>
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in the said County who were assessed to and have paid the poors Rate of the<lb></lb>
said parish for the year ending at or about Easter now last past whose names are<lb></lb>
hereunto subscribed on behalf of themselves and other Inhabitants of the said parish</p>
<p n="638"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
</p>
<p n="639">That <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n639-1">John Andrews</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n639-1" type="surname" value="Andrews"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n639-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n639-2">Joseph Druce</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n639-2" type="given" value="Joseph"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n639-2" type="surname" value="Druce"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n639-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50859_occ172">House holders</rs>
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and Inhabitants of the<lb></lb>
said parish who served the Office of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50859_occ173">Overseers of the Poor</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_occ173" type="occupation" value="Overseers of the Poor"></interp>
of the said parish for the year ending at or<lb></lb>
about Easter last did during the Continuance of their said Office by Virtue of two several rates made for<lb></lb>
the relief and Maintenance of the poor of the said parish and otherwise by Virtue of their said Office<lb></lb>
collect and receive divers large sums of Money for and towards the necessary relief and support of the<lb></lb>
poor of the said parish for which sums so collected and received they have delivered their Accounts</p>
<p n="640">That in discharge of the monies so by them Collected and received they have charged<lb></lb>
and taken credit for in their said Accounts very large sums of Money which are stated and<lb></lb>
expressed therein to have been paid by them for various purposes that your petitioners conceive<lb></lb>
have no relation to the relief or support of the Poor nor can be legally chargeable on or paid out of the Monies<lb></lb>
collected by Virtue of the Poors rate To Wit the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n640-1">John Andrews</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n640-1" type="surname" value="Andrews"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n640-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
has charged and taken Credit as<lb></lb>
aforesaid for the sum of Fifty nine pounds four shillings and two pence purporting to be the Amount of the Bill<lb></lb>
of Messrs Acton and Winter Attornies at Law for fees and other charges incurring in opposing a Bill that was brought<lb></lb>
into parliament for shutting up a Road called love lane between <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50859_geo517">Richmond Gardens</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_geo517" type="placeName" value="Richmond Gardens"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_geo517" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50859_geo518">Kew Gardens</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
of Surry the Object whereof had no relation what ever to any of the purposes to which the said Ratcought by Law to be<lb></lb>
made collected or applied and has likewise Charged and taken credit as aforesaid for the sum of Twelve Pounds nine<lb></lb>
Shillings and three pence as paid by him the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n640-2">John Andrews</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n640-2" type="surname" value="Andrews"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n640-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
to the Constables and Headborough of the said parish<lb></lb>
without producing any legal order or Authority for the payment thereof as your petitioners apprehend and has likewise<lb></lb>
Charged and taken Credit as aforesaid for the sum of Three Pounds seventeen shillings and six pence stated in the Account<lb></lb>
of him the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n640-3">John Andrews</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n640-3" type="surname" value="Andrews"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n640-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
to be "Expences of the Jury on the Body of a new born Infant"And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n640-4">Joseph<lb></lb>
Druce</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n640-4" type="given" value="Joseph"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n640-4" type="surname" value="Druce"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n640-4" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
has charged and taken credit as aforesaid for the sum of Seven pounds two shillings and eight pence as paid<lb></lb>
by him to the said Constables and Head borough without producing any legal Order or Authority for the payment<lb></lb>
thereof as your Petitioners apprehend all which said Charges your Petitioners conceive to be illegal.</p>
<p n="641">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n641-1">John Andrews</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n641-1" type="given" value="John"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n641-1" type="surname" value="Andrews"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n641-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n641-2">Joseph Druce</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n641-2" type="given" value="Joseph"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n641-2" type="surname" value="Druce"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n641-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
have likewise charged and take credit in their said<lb></lb>
accounts for several other sums of Money, that is to say the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n641-3">Joseph Druce</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n641-3" type="given" value="Joseph"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n641-3" type="surname" value="Druce"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n641-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
the sum of two Pounds charged as paid by<lb></lb>
him on the 30th. of July 1788 "at the making a Poors Rate" and the further sum of One Pound one shilling charged<lb></lb>
as paid by him the 18th. of February 1789 "Upon making the second Poors Rate" and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n641-4">John Andrews</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n641-4" type="surname" value="Andrews"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n641-4" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
the<lb></lb>
sum of One pound one shilling charged as paid by him on the last mentioned Day and likewise stated to be "Upon<lb></lb>
"making the second poors. Rate" the whole of the said three last mentioned sums amounting together to the sum of<lb></lb>
Four pounds two Shillings and as the Vestry Clerk of the said Parish has an annual Salary for executing the duties<lb></lb>
of his Office a part whereof is the Copying and Figuring the said Rate your Petitioners apprehend the said several<lb></lb>
Charges last mentioned are for Tavern Expences only and therefore improper and illegal</p>
<p n="642">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n642-1">John Andrews</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n642-1" type="surname" value="Andrews"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n642-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
has also charged and taken credit as aforesaid for the sum of £11..14..6 as expences<lb></lb>
in attending the Sessions of this County on the Trial of an Appeal which said Sum does not as your Petitioners apprehend include any part<lb></lb>
of the Bill of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50859_occ174">Solicitor</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_occ174" type="occupation" value="Solicitor"></interp>
who managed such Appeal nor any Fees paid to Counsel but appears to be only for travelling and tavern expences<lb></lb>
And has likewise charged and taken credit as aforesaid for the sum of £8..3..6 as the expences incurred in apprehending<lb></lb>
one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n642-59">Stephen Stockbridge</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n642-59" type="surname" value="Stockbridge"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n642-59" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
upon a charge of Bastardy and procuring him to be Married and the sum of 10s/ as paid to one<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n642-2">Joseph Andrews</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n642-2" type="surname" value="Andrews"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n642-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
for attending at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50859_geo519">Westminster</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_geo519" type="placeName" value="Westminster"></interp>
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Election</p>
<p n="643">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n643-1">John Andrews</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n643-1" type="given" value="John"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n643-1" type="surname" value="Andrews"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n643-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n643-2">Joseph Druce</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n643-2" type="given" value="Joseph"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n643-2" type="surname" value="Druce"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_n643-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
might have verified their Accounts before a Justice or<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50859_occ175">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in their own neighbourhood without any expence whatever notwithstanding which they went for<lb></lb>
he purpose of verifying the same from the said Parish to the Publick Office in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50859_geo520">Bow Street</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50859_geo520" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50859_geo521">Covent Garden</rs>
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and each of them have charged and<lb></lb>
taken credit in their said Accounts for fourteen Shillings amounting in the whole to the sum of one Pound and eight<lb></lb>
Shillings as and for their expences on that occasion charges which under the abovementioned circumstances</p>
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