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<p n="699">and ninety eight the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50958_n699-1">William Hill</rs>
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the Collector demanded of Messrs.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50958_n699-2">Thos. Sermon</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50958_n699-3">Walpole Eyre</rs>
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your Petitioners <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50958_occ125">Agents</rs>
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the Sum of<lb></lb>
Twenty eight Pounds for half a Years Poor and Highway Rates<lb></lb>
assessed in manner following that is to say rate of One shilling<lb></lb>
and eleven pence in the pound for the maintenance of the Poor of<lb></lb>
the said Parish and other expences included in the said rate<lb></lb>
and a rate of one penny in the pound for repairing the Highways<lb></lb>
and Causeways within the sd. Parish upon the yearly rent of<lb></lb>
Five hundred and sixty pounds.</p>
<p n="700">That your Petitioners said Agents finding that the said rates<lb></lb>
were increased from seventeen pounds five shillings and ten pence<lb></lb>
to Fifty six Pounds declined paying the said Sum of Twenty eight<lb></lb>
pounds and appealed to the Vestrymen for the said Parish against<lb></lb>
the said rates and Assessments on the tenth day of November<lb></lb>
last And upon such Appeal demanded and inspection of the rate<lb></lb>
Books which was refused but the sd. Vestrymen Ordered the<lb></lb>
rates for the whose year for your Petitioners said Farm to be<lb></lb>
reduced to Forty four Pounds two shillings upon the yearly Rent<lb></lb>
of Four hundred and forty one Pounds.</p>
<p n="701">That your Petitioners said Agent afterwards obtained Copies of<lb></lb>
the said rates for the Fields in the said Parish for the years One<lb></lb>
thousand seven hundred ad ninety seven and One thousand seven<lb></lb>
hundred and ninety eight from which it appeared that your Petitioners<lb></lb>
Farm above had been raised for the year One thousand seven<lb></lb>
hundred and ninety eight and that although all the other Occupiers<lb></lb>
of the said Fields had less money to pay for their respective rates in<lb></lb>
the year One thousand seven hundred and ninety eight than they<lb></lb>
had to pay in the year One thousand seven hundred and ninety seven<lb></lb>
Your Petitioner had a larger sum of money to pay by more than<lb></lb>
double what his said Farm had been rated at in the year One<lb></lb>
thousand seven hundred and ninety seven.</p>
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