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<p n="566">To the Worshipful His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50948_occ84">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo345">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in General Quarter Session of the Peace at the Session House on <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo346">Clerkenwell Green</rs>
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in the said County assembled</p>
<p n="567">The humble Petition and Appeal of Francis <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo347">Whetstone</rs>
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of the Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo348">Ratcliff</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo349">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Block<lb></lb>
Maker</p>
<p n="568"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That your Petitioner was on the 23d. Day of June 1797<lb></lb>
rated or assessed for a Dwelling House and other Premises situate in a<lb></lb>
Yard or Court called the Ship Yard in the said Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo350">Ratcliff</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo351">County of Middlesex</rs>
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by the Commissioners acting in and under a<lb></lb>
Certain Act of Parliament passed in the 11th. Year of his present Majesty<lb></lb>
Intituled "an Act for paving and regulating <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo352">Rosemary Lane</rs>
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from the Parish<lb></lb>
"of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo353">Saint Botolph Aldgate</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo354">Cable Street</rs>
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also the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo355">Cable Street</rs>
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the foot Path<lb></lb>
"in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo356">Back Lane</rs>
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Part of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo357">Precinct of Well Close</rs>
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the Street leading from<lb></lb>
"<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo358">Nightingale Lane</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50948_geo359">Ratcliff</rs>
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Crops Butcher Row and Brook Street And the<lb></lb>
"several Streets Lanes and Passages opening into the same and for<lb></lb>
"removing all Obstructions and Annoyances therefrom and preventing<lb></lb>
"the like for the future"</p>
<p n="569">That your Petitioner humbly conceives that he is not<lb></lb>
liable to be rated or assessed for the said Premises the same not being<lb></lb>
situate within any of the Places particularly specified in the said Act<lb></lb>
and which have been paved by virtue of or in pursuance thereof but<lb></lb>
on the Contrary the said Yard or Court wherein the said Dwelling House<lb></lb>
and Premises are situate has not been new paved under any Provision<lb></lb>
of the said Act but remains as it were previous to passing the said<lb></lb>
Act which exempts your Petitioner from any Rate or Assessment<lb></lb>
whatsoever</p>
<p n="570">Your Petitioner therefore humbly appeals to this<lb></lb>
Court against the Assessment of the said Commissioners<lb></lb>
and prays that your Worships will be pleased to<lb></lb>
appoint a Day to hear and determine the said Appeal</p>
<p n="571">And Your Petitioner will ever pray Etc</p>
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