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<p n="62">To the Worshipful his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50861_occ19">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50861_geo25">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at their general<lb></lb>
Session of the Peace holdenfor the said<lb></lb>
County assembled.</p>
<p n="63">The humble Petition and appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50861_n63-1">John Crawley</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50861_n63-2">John Ashfield</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50861_n63-3">William proctor</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50861_n63-99">John Nolckman</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50861_n63-99" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50861_n63-4">John<lb></lb>
Hanson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50861_n63-5">Samuel Oliver</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50861_n63-88">John Pordey</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50861_n63-6">Marmaduke<lb></lb>
Mortimer</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50861_n63-7">John Williams</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50861_n63-58">Alexander Tough</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50861_n63-8">James Bonner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50861_n63-9">William Smith</rs>
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being severally Inhabitants within the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50861_geo26">Saint Mary Stratford Bow</rs>
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a in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50861_geo27">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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and rated towards the Relief of the Poor there</p>
<p n="64"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That on or about the twenty ninth Day of January last a<lb></lb>
Rate or assessment was made and allowed for the Relief of the Poor<lb></lb>
within the said Parish.</p>
<p n="65">That your Petitioners conceived themselves to be aggrieved<lb></lb>
by the said Rate or Assessment in as much as your Petitioners<lb></lb>
apprehend that the said Rate or Assessment is partial unequal<lb></lb>
unfair and unjust and that for the following (among other Reasons)</p>
<p n="66">First, for that there is not any necessary Occasion for the Money<lb></lb>
raised or attempted to be raised by the said Rate or Assessment<lb></lb>
there being a Considerable Sum of money (being the Balance of<lb></lb>
former Rates or Assessment made for the Relief of the Poor of the<lb></lb>
said Parish new remaining in the Hands of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50861_n66-1">Robert Jones</rs>
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one of<lb></lb>
the Present <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50861_occ20">Overseers of the poor</rs>
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of the said Parish and which<lb></lb>
he has appropriated to his own Use under Colour of a Grant<lb></lb>
Pretended Grant from the select Vestry of the said Parish of on<lb></lb>
Shilling in the Pound for collecting the said Rates on Assessment<lb></lb>
amounting in the whole to the Sum of one hundred and forty<lb></lb>
pound, which he has not applied for the Use of the said Parish</p>
<p n="67">Secondly For that there appears several very considerable Sum<lb></lb>
of Money remaining due from different Inhabitant of the said<lb></lb>
Parish uncollected of Preceeding rates or Assessments and who are<lb></lb>
of sufficient Ability to pay the same if means were used to en<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the Payment thereof.</p>
<p n="68">Thirdly forth at even if there was no Money in the<obscured></obscured>
</p>
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