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your Petitioner are Trustees and Assignees of the Vicarage of the said
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That by an Act of Parliament passed in the 17th. Year of the
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Reign of his present Majesty entilled "An Act for the better Relief
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and Employment of the poor of the parish of
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mentioned" it is amongst other Things enacted that certain Rates on
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James Wallen
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and his Predecessors were never rated or assessed towards the Relief of the
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1777 or 1778 the said
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James Wallon
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having been surcharged to the Poor
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of the said Parish in Respect of his vicarial property under the said Act
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he appealed therefrom and in Regard that it appeared that he and his
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Predecessors had never been rated more than £4 a Year as aforesaid and
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that he had been in the Habits of burying the poor of the said parish
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