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<p n="1835">afterwards adding to his Premises by the purchase of about one Acre and three Quarters of Land they<lb></lb>
were in Consequence thereof rated at Thirty three Pounds ten Shillings per Annum which rate he did not attempt<lb></lb>
to get reduced (although the beforementioned Cottage had been pulled down and the annual Value of his<lb></lb>
premises certained lessened thereby) and at this rate the Premises were regularly continued to be charged during<lb></lb>
a Course of Twenty Years.</p>
<p n="1836">That in the Year 1780 your Petitioner quitting the said Hamlet left the Premises to the care of a Friend<lb></lb>
with directions to let them ready Furnished only, at a rent of Thirty three Pounds Ten Shillings for the whole of the<lb></lb>
premises together (independant of the furniture) and also for such other annual Sum as could be obtained for<lb></lb>
the use of the furniture Fixtures Uttensils and Exotics with great variety of very good Flower roots.-</p>
<p n="1837">That in Consequence of your Petitioner's said direction and after the premises had remained unoccupied<lb></lb>
half a year they were Left upon Lease to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50862_n1837-1">Daniel Jones</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50862_occ357">Esquire</rs>
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at Thirty three Pounds per annum for the House<lb></lb>
and premises and Thirty seven Pounds per Annum for the use of the Furniture Fixtures Utensils Exotics Etc left on<lb></lb>
the Premises.</p>
<p n="1838">That the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50862_n1838-1">Daniel Jones</rs>
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Occupied the Premises Six Years and three Quarters and the Annual<lb></lb>
Sum of Thirty seven Pounds paid by him for the use of the furniture and other things left there by your<lb></lb>
Petitioner was for unequal to the expences and losses which your Petitioner sustained by the removal of such<lb></lb>
Parts of his Furniture as the said Tenant had no Occasion for, which said Expences and losses could not be<lb></lb>
made good to your Petitioner for less than Three hundred Pounds.</p>
<p n="1839">That the said Tenant quitted the Premises at Michaelmas 1787 and then your Petitioner advertized<lb></lb>
them to be lett or Sold, but from the ill Condition in which they they were left, and their Objectionable situation<lb></lb>
on the Marsh as aforesaid your Petitioner could neither Procure a Purchasor or Tenant and therefore in March<lb></lb>
1788 he returned reside upon the said Premises and has ever since occupied the same himself having done<lb></lb>
such repairs thereto only as were absolutly necessary to make them tenantable.</p>
<p n="1840">That in a rate made for the Relief of the Poor of the said Hamlet on the fourth of August last<lb></lb>
your Petitioner's said Premises were raised from Thirty three Pounds Ten Shillings (at which they had continued<lb></lb>
during Twenty Years as aforesaid and which is the full Annual value thereof) to Forty Pounds per Annum<lb></lb>
And two Fields which your Petitioner Occupies besides his said Premises were at the same time raised from<lb></lb>
Seventeen Pounds to Twenty Pounds per Annum. And several other Persons who were Assessed in the last mentioned<lb></lb>
Rate being dissatisfied not only with the Charges made upon them therein but with the Partial and unequal<lb></lb>
manner in which others were charged, several plans were suggested for equallizing the Charges on the whole<lb></lb>
of the Rateabe property within the said Hamlet according to fair and reasonable Valuations thereof and among<lb></lb>
others one was suggested by your Petitioner of appointing at a full Vestry Meeting convened for the purpose a<lb></lb>
Committee of the most intelligent Inhabitants to settle a rule for and ascertain such equal valuation in<lb></lb>
order that the same might be fixed upon a fair and impartial Basis in future but this being objected to<lb></lb>
by some Persons who by influence carry all questions at the Public Meetings as they think proper and<lb></lb>
who are and have been themselves favoured by not being charged in the Rates to the amount of their<lb></lb>
Rateable property. several of them attended a Meeting of the Magistrates acting for the division holden<lb></lb>
on the Ninth of August last upon pretence of taking their advice upon a Plan for a more equal mode of<lb></lb>
rating and your Petitioner likewise attended the said Meeting and upon some conversation taking Place<lb></lb>
respecting the annual value of his Premises he produced the before mentioned Lease, whereby the were lett<lb></lb>
to the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50862_n1840-1">Daniel Jones</rs>
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at Thirty three Pounds ten Shillings per Annum the Magistrates recommended<lb></lb>
to him to acquiesed in a Rental of Forty Pounds and seventeen Pounds per Annum for the Fields to <lb></lb>
which he consented and the Parish Officers then Appeared fully satisfied therewith but it appearing by such<lb></lb>
Lease that your Petitioner was to have Thirty seven Pounds Per Annum for the use of his Furniture <lb></lb>
Fixtures Uttensils Exotics Etc as before mentioned the Persons who made the succeeding Rate were determine</p>
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