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To the Right Honoble: the Lord Mayor and the Right
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Worpll: the Justices of the Peace for the City of London Etc:
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The humble Peticon of the Church:Wardens
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and Overseers of the Poor and other the
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Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Mildreds
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Poultrey
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Humbly Sheweth
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That having but 74 houses in the Parish
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whereof but 31 are to the Street and 43 in Alleys, in the last of which
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many meane people doe live, by occasion of which they have severall
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Pensioners, and not a few Children laid and left to the said Parish to
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maintaine (of which they have severall now at Nurse) They have beene
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for these and the like reasons necessitated to raise Sometimes 60 and
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at other times £70 a yeare for the said Poore, But this not withstanding
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there hath beene for Sometime by Annward this prsent yeare noe
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less then £8 laid upon the said Parish to pay to St. Sepulchres, And
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yor. Peticonrs. being informed that severall neighbouring Parishes
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(better able to answer the like Occasionns as they Conceive) doe
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not pay half so much.
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Humbly pray they may have
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Some Case therein.
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And yor: Peticonrs: shall pray Etc:
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St. Mildred Poultry
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1690 ?
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Petitions of Churchwardens
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