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