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<p n="1827">To the Worshipfull his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50862_occ352">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50862_geo1128">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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in their General Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled.</p>
<p n="1828">The Petition and Appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50862_n1828-1">William Miles</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50862_geo1129">Pinner</rs>
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in the said County <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50862_occ353">Esquire</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="1829"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That by virtue of a Rate or Assessment made for the relief of the Poor of the said Hamlet and<lb></lb>
for other Purposes mentioned in the several Acts of Parliament relating to the Poor on or about the ninth day<lb></lb>
of March last past and allowed by two of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50862_occ354">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said County and afterwards<lb></lb>
Published in the Church of the said Hamlet your Petitioner is charged in and by such Rate or Assessment with<lb></lb>
a large and excessive Sum of Money for the purposes aforesaid and much more than according to the real Value<lb></lb>
of his Rateable Property within the said Hamlet he should be charged at and also much more in<lb></lb>
Proportion to such Value than several other Inhabitants and Occupiers of Rateable property within the<lb></lb>
said Hamlet and charged at.-</p>
<p n="1830">That the pretended Rule of charging Persons to the said Rate is at a Rack Rent or to the<lb></lb>
full amount of the Real annual Value of the rateable property which they respectively Occupy or Possess in the<lb></lb>
said Hamlet but which said rule the Persons who made the said Rate have departed from and disregarded<lb></lb>
in several instances and several Circumstances of inequality and Partiality in Charging Persons will appear<lb></lb>
upon inspecting the said Rate and enquiring into and ascertaining the Particulars of the real value of such<lb></lb>
property Particularly</p>
<p n="1831">That the Reverend Mr Williams <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50862_occ355">Minister</rs>
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of the said Hamlet is charged or Assessed therein at no more<lb></lb>
than after the Rate of Forty five Pounds per Annum although his dwelling House and the Appurtenances thereunto<lb></lb>
belonging are much more valuable with respect to size Convenience and Situation than those of your Petitioner<lb></lb>
(which are rated as aftermentioned at Seventy Pounds per Annum) And in which said Charge or Assessment<lb></lb>
of Forty Five Pounds Per Annum is included a large Orchard and fourteen Acres of the best Land within the<lb></lb>
said Hamlet</p>
<p n="1832">That your Petitioner in the Year 1764 Purchased a House Cottage and Land in the said Hamlet<lb></lb>
the whole comprizing about Six Acres including the Rate of the House Cottage Garden and Yards which consisted of<lb></lb>
about two Acres of the said six Acres, and the said Cottage was worth about Five Pounds or six Pounds per<lb></lb>
Annum to be lett.</p>
<p n="1833">That the premises so purchased by your Petitioner being situated on a small Common called the Marsh<lb></lb>
and generally Flooded upon any Considerable fall of Rain the situation is objectionable in the opinion of many<lb></lb>
Renters of Houses and on that account the premises are considerably depreciated in point of value either <lb></lb>
to be lot or sold</p>
<p n="1834">That in the Year 1768 your Petitioner let the whole of the said Premises as the same were purchased<lb></lb>
by him to a Tenant for a Year at the annual rent of Thirty Pounds after having stood empty for several years<lb></lb>
and after such Tenant quitted them they remaned unoccupied a year, whereupon your Petitioner (being unable<lb></lb>
to find a purchaser for them or to lot them to any advantage) returned in the Year 1770 to reside on them<lb></lb>
himself, and being soon afterwards rated at Fifty Pounds a Year he attended a Petty Sessions of his Majestys<lb></lb>
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holden at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50862_geo1130">Edgeware</rs>
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and upon proof being made before them of the rent at which he<lb></lb>
had let the premises as aforesaid and other Circumstances respecting their Value being taken into<lb></lb>
Consideration the Overseers of the Poor Consented to rate him at Thirty Pounds per Annum But your Petitioner</p>
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