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