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