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To the Worshipful His Majesty's
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Justices of
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The Humble Petition and Appeale
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Sheweth
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That your Petition is the Owner of a certain Farm called
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Mary le bone
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which in the year One thousand seven hundred
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and ninety six was let to one
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William Kightley
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who continued in
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possession thereof until the nine of his death which happened in
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or about September One thousand seven hundred and ninety seven
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and some time afterwards his Executrix gave up the said Farm
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to your Petitioner who has ever since held the same in his own
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Hands.
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That in the year One thousand seven hundred and ninety
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seven the Poor send Highway Rates for the said Parish of
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for the said Farm amounted together to the Sum of
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Seventeen pounds five shillings and ten pence and that the same
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were assessed in manner following that is to say a rate of
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two shillings in the Pound for the maintenance of the Poor of
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the sd. Parish and other Expences included in the said rate and a
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rate of one penny in the Pound for repairing the Highways and
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Causeways within the said Parish upon the Yearly Rent of One
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hundred and sixty six pounds and that the said Sum of Seventeen
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pounds five shillings and ten pence was paid for the same on the
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first day of December One thousand seven hundred and ninety
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seven to
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William Hill
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of the rates of the said
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That on the third day of November One thousand seven hundred
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