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To the Worshipful his Majesty's
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Session of the Peace holdenfor the said
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The humble Petition and appeal of
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John Crawley
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William proctor
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John
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Hanson
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Samuel Oliver
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John Pordey
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Mortimer
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John Williams
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James Bonner
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William Smith
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and rated towards the Relief of the Poor there
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Sheweth
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That on or about the twenty ninth Day of January last a
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Rate or assessment was made and allowed for the Relief of the Poor
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within the said Parish.
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That your Petitioners conceived themselves to be aggrieved
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by the said Rate or Assessment in as much as your Petitioners
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apprehend that the said Rate or Assessment is partial unequal
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unfair and unjust and that for the following (among other Reasons)
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First, for that there is not any necessary Occasion for the Money
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raised or attempted to be raised by the said Rate or Assessment
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there being a Considerable Sum of money (being the Balance of
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former Rates or Assessment made for the Relief of the Poor of the
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one of
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the Present
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Overseers of the poor
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of the said Parish and which
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he has appropriated to his own Use under Colour of a Grant
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Pretended Grant from the select Vestry of the said Parish of on
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Shilling in the Pound for collecting the said Rates on Assessment
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amounting in the whole to the Sum of one hundred and forty
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Secondly For that there appears several very considerable Sum
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the Payment thereof.
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Thirdly forth at even if there was no Money in the
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