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<p n="648">settle (as it was termed) Accounts of which their Bills Constituted a Part but procured the attendance of their<lb></lb>
Friends and of other Persons who were in expectation of providing and serving the like articles in what was<lb></lb>
Called their turns and who had in Contemplation an Interest in setting such Accounts however exhorbitant<lb></lb>
the Charges therein might be as they expected to have the same favour in return when their Bills came to be settled<lb></lb>
in like manner.</p>
<p n="649">That illegal Charges in the Accounts of the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish and the<lb></lb>
measures pursued in purchasing Articles for the necessary relief and maintenance of the Poor in the Work house<lb></lb>
of the said Parish as aforesaid have during several years last past been growing evils And there is every reason<lb></lb>
to suppose that if similar misconduct is not checked or prevented in future by the timely interposition of this<lb></lb>
Court the like practices will be continued and encreased to the most enormous extent and so as to prove<lb></lb>
highly grievous and detrimental to Your Petitioners and many other Inhabitants of the said<lb></lb>
Parish</p>
<p n="650">Your Petitioners conceiving themselves aggrieved by the<lb></lb>
Acts and Conduct of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n650-1">John Andrews</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n650-2">Joseph Druce</rs>
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as <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50859_occ177">Overseers<lb></lb>
of the Poor</rs>
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aforesaid and having many material Objections (some whereof<lb></lb>
are before mentioned) to their Accounts as such Overseers Therefore<lb></lb>
appeal to this Court against the same and pray Your Worships to appoint<lb></lb>
a Day in this present Session for the hearing and Determining the said<lb></lb>
Appeal And that such relief may be given to Your Petitioners in the premises<lb></lb>
as to your Worships shall seem just and reasonable</p>
<p n="651">And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc.</p>
<p n="652"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n652-1">Frederick Barnard</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n652-2">Edward Roberts</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n652-3">Edwd Payne</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n652-4">John Winter</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n652-5">John Crofts</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n652-6">Thomas Fletcher</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50859_n652-7">Joseph Pitt</rs>
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