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<p n="619">To the Worshipful His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50946_occ136">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50946_geo430">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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in General Quarter Session of the Peace for the said County<lb></lb>
assembled</p>
<p n="620">The Humble Petition and Appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50946_n620-1">Joseph Cooper</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50946_n620-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Crook</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50946_n620-3">George Cloak</rs>
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Inhabitants of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50946_geo431">Parish of Chiswick</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50946_geo432">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="621"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That by a Rate or Assessment made for the Relief of the Poor of the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50946_geo433">Parish of Chiswick</rs>
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and for other Purposes on the Fifteenth day of December 1797<lb></lb>
and allowed by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50946_n621-1">John Hatchett</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50946_n621-2">William Carr</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50946_occ137">Esquires</rs>
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two of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50946_occ138">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said County (one whereof being of the Quorum) the twenty<lb></lb>
ninth day of the same December Intitled as appears in the Copy of such Rate or<lb></lb>
Assessment lately delivered to your Petitioners "A Rate or Assessment for the necessary<lb></lb>
"Relief of the Poor and for other Purposes in the several Acts of Parliament mention'd<lb></lb>
"relating to the Poor for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50946_geo434">Parish of Chiswick</rs>
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made and assess'd the 15th. day of<lb></lb>
"Decemr. 1797 being the second Rate or Assessment at one Shilling and three<lb></lb>
"pence in the Pound for the present Year"; Your Petitioners and many other Persons<lb></lb>
who on the said fifteenth day of December were Inhabitants and Occupiers of<lb></lb>
Houses Lands and Tenements in the said Parish are in and by the said Rate<lb></lb>
or Assessment charged and assessed in several sums of Money for such Relief<lb></lb>
as therein specified</p>
<p n="622">That your Petitioners being aggrieved by such Rate or Assessment crave<lb></lb>
leave to appeal therefrom on the following Grounds vizt.</p>
<p n="623">That by the Custom of the said Parish for several Years last Past<lb></lb>
there have been two Rates or Assessments made in one Year for the Relief of<lb></lb>
the Poor thereof the first Rate or Assessment commencing at Lady Day and<lb></lb>
ending at Michaelmas Day following and the other Rate or Assessment commencing<lb></lb>
at Michaelmas Day and ending the Lady Day following.</p>
<p n="624">That the next preceding Rate to the said Rate or Assessment against<lb></lb>
which your Petitioners do appeal for the Relief of the Poor of the said Parish was<lb></lb>
made on the thirty first day of August 1797 and was in the Title thereof alledged to<lb></lb>
be made for two quarters commencing at Lady Day and ending on Michaelmas Day<lb></lb>
1797 at one Shilling and three Pence in the Pound to be collected quarterly and which<lb></lb>
said preceding Rate was charged therein to amount to the Sum of Seven hundred and<lb></lb>
forty one Pounds three Shillings and nine Pence And that the said Rate or Assessment<lb></lb>
now appealed against amounts to the Sum of Seven hundred and thirty four pounds as Your<lb></lb>
Petitioners<obscured></obscured>
the same.</p>
<p n="625">That by the said Rate or Assessment now appealed against your Petitioners<lb></lb>
and the several other Inhabitants therein named are charged at the several sums of<lb></lb>
One Shilling and three Pence in the Pound for only sixteen Days the said Rate.</p>
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