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Lord Maior
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And to the Rt. Worll. his Maties.
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Justices of the Peace
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in the Generall Quarter Sessions Assembled
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The humble peticon & Appeale of the Churchwardens Overseers
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of the Poore & Parishionrs. of the Parish of
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Sheweth
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That the Clarke of yor. Petrs. Parish by mistake in a Returne to the prcept
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directed to them from the Right Honorble the late lord Maior of this City
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to give an account of their Poore and the charge of mainteyining them
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hee made a returne of the sume of £133. for one yeare which was the totall
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sume of all the pavments made in every respect for & concerning the same
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Whereas in truth the true charge of their poore amounts to no more than
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about £45. yearely.
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And their said Parish being charged by virtue of the late Act of
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Comon Councill to pay 66:10:2 to the Corporation of established by the said
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Act for setting the poore on worke
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Now yor: Petrs. in respect of the smallnesse of their Parish And
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the greate charge of Poore therein wch. They have to mainteyne
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Define that yor. Lopp. & Worpps. will be pleased to releive your Petrs and
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to order the abatement of the said sume of £66:10s:2d: to such sume in
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proportion To what doth truely arise by their assessement for mainteyning
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the Poore of their said Parish They being only releivable
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by this Courte
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And They shall pray Etc.
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