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To the Worshipful His Majesty's
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The Humble Petition and Appeal of
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Joseph Cooper
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That by a Rate or Assessment made for the Relief of the Poor of the
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and for other Purposes on the Fifteenth day of December 1797
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and allowed by
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two of his Majesty's
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in and for the said County (one whereof being of the Quorum) the twenty
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ninth day of the same December Intitled as appears in the Copy of such Rate or
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Assessment lately delivered to your Petitioners "A Rate or Assessment for the necessary
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made and assess'd the 15th. day of
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"Decemr. 1797 being the second Rate or Assessment at one Shilling and three
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"pence in the Pound for the present Year"; Your Petitioners and many other Persons
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who on the said fifteenth day of December were Inhabitants and Occupiers of
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Houses Lands and Tenements in the said Parish are in and by the said Rate
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or Assessment charged and assessed in several sums of Money for such Relief
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as therein specified
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That your Petitioners being aggrieved by such Rate or Assessment crave
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leave to appeal therefrom on the following Grounds vizt.
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That by the Custom of the said Parish for several Years last Past
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the Poor thereof the first Rate or Assessment commencing at Lady Day and
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at Michaelmas Day and ending the Lady Day following.
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That the next preceding Rate to the said Rate or Assessment against
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which your Petitioners do appeal for the Relief of the Poor of the said Parish was
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made on the thirty first day of August 1797 and was in the Title thereof alledged to
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be made for two quarters commencing at Lady Day and ending on Michaelmas Day
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1797 at one Shilling and three Pence in the Pound to be collected quarterly and which
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said preceding Rate was charged therein to amount to the Sum of Seven hundred and
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forty one Pounds three Shillings and nine Pence And that the said Rate or Assessment
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now appealed against amounts to the Sum of Seven hundred and thirty four pounds as Your
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Petitioners
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That by the said Rate or Assessment now appealed against your Petitioners
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and the several other Inhabitants therein named are charged at the several sums of
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One Shilling and three Pence in the Pound for only sixteen Days the said Rate.
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