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and ninety eight the said
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William Hill
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the Collector demanded of Messrs.
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Thos. Sermon
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Walpole Eyre
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your Petitioners
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Agents
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the Sum of
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Twenty eight Pounds for half a Years Poor and Highway Rates
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assessed in manner following that is to say rate of One shilling
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and eleven pence in the pound for the maintenance of the Poor of
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the said Parish and other expences included in the said rate
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and a rate of one penny in the pound for repairing the Highways
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and Causeways within the sd. Parish upon the yearly rent of
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Five hundred and sixty pounds.
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That your Petitioners said Agents finding that the said rates
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were increased from seventeen pounds five shillings and ten pence
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to Fifty six Pounds declined paying the said Sum of Twenty eight
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pounds and appealed to the Vestrymen for the said Parish against
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the said rates and Assessments on the tenth day of November
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last And upon such Appeal demanded and inspection of the rate
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Books which was refused but the sd. Vestrymen Ordered the
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rates for the whose year for your Petitioners said Farm to be
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reduced to Forty four Pounds two shillings upon the yearly Rent
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of Four hundred and forty one Pounds.
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That your Petitioners said Agent afterwards obtained Copies of
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the said rates for the Fields in the said Parish for the years One
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thousand seven hundred ad ninety seven and One thousand seven
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hundred and ninety eight from which it appeared that your Petitioners
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Farm above had been raised for the year One thousand seven
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hundred and ninety eight and that although all the other Occupiers
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of the said Fields had less money to pay for their respective rates in
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the year One thousand seven hundred and ninety eight than they
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had to pay in the year One thousand seven hundred and ninety seven
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Your Petitioner had a larger sum of money to pay by more than
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double what his said Farm had been rated at in the year One
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thousand seven hundred and ninety seven.
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