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<p n="20">To the Worshipfull <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65448_n20-1">His Majesty</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65448_occ9">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the City and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65448_geo20">Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in their General Quarter Session of the Peace, by<lb></lb>
Adjournment Assembled.</p>
<p n="21">The Humble Petition of the Churchwardens and Surveyors of the Highways of<lb></lb>
the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65448_geo21">Saint George Hanover Square</rs>
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within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65448_geo22">Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65448_geo23">County of Middlesex</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="22"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That the Highways Causeways and pavements to be repaired by the<lb></lb>
said Parish are now so broken and out of repair that they cannot be sufficiently amended <lb></lb>
and repaired for this present year commending from Christmas last past at less Charge<lb></lb>
than three hundred Pounds & upwards which may be raised by a Rate not exceeding three<lb></lb>
half pence in the Pound upon all and every the Inhabitants Owners and Occupiers of<lb></lb>
Lands Houses Tenements and Hereditaments within the said Parish.</p>
<p n="23">Your Petitioners therefore Humbly pray this Court to grant<lb></lb>
them an Order<del>of Court</del>
to Enable your Petitioners to make<lb></lb>
a Rate or assessment not Exceeding One penny half penny in the Pound<lb></lb>
upon all and every the Inhabitants of the said Parish for<lb></lb>
repairing of the said Highways Causeways and Pavements as<lb></lb>
by the Statute in that Case made and Provided.</p>
<p n="24"> <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65448_n24-1">Fra: Burson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65448_n24-2">Jos. Patterson</rs>
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<p n="25"> <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65448_n25-1">Cornelius Vanderstop</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65448_n25-2">Charles Turham</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65448_n25-3">Wm: Perritt</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65448_occ11">Surveyors</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
Highways.</p>
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