To the Right Honoble Sr: Charles Peers< no role > Knt : Lord
Mayor of the City of London and the Right Worppll:
the rest of his Maties Justices of the Peace att the Genll:
Quarter Sessions of the Peace Assembled

The humble peticon and Appeal of Augustine Meadow< no role > 's
Thomas Randall< no role > John Baker< no role > Haws Marsh< no role > Jonathan
Marcroft< no role > Hanna Cornish< no role > Sarah Daniell< no role > Elizabeth Frey< no role >
Mary Boulter< no role > and Elizabeth Collins< no role > Inhabitants of the
Parish of Saint Mary Somersets London

Humbly Sheweth

That Your Peticoners being Inhabitants in the Parish of St: Mary Somersett
London where they have lived severall Years and paid the Sesser rates that have
been from time to time charged upon ym: respectively by the severall Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the same Parish for Support of the Poore thereof
But Your Peticoners being now severally Groved by this present Sess or rate for
the Poor Made upon the Inhabitants of the sd: Parish by the present Church Wardens
William Brewer< no role > & Henry Marriott< no role > and the present Overseers of the poor Francis Foster< no role > William
Long< no role > and Thomas Beaton< no role > the sd: rate being very unequall and imposed in an unusuall
and different manner from all the Poors rates hereto fore made in the Sd: Parish the same
being or by the said Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor pretended to be pound rate which
your Peticoners conceive not to bewarranted by or Pursueant to the Act of Parliament
in yt: Caw Made and Provided and which Method if Drawn into Practice in the City of London
will be of very ill consequences to the Inhabitants thereof and by which sd present rate Your
Peticoners are rated & assessed much higher than many others of the Inhabitants of the sd: Parish
andwho are of greater Ability and also much higher than your Peticoners used to be rated Whereas
such said other Inhabitants are by the sd present rate rated much lower than they used to be
And Your Peticoners Hannah Cornish< no role > Sarah Daniell< no role > Mary Boulter< no role > & Elizabeth Collins< no role > by
reason of their Poverty are not able to pay the said rate upon them imposed

Wherefore Your Peticoners humbly Pray Your Honour & Worshipps
to relieve them and Order the Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of
the sd: Parish to Appear and produce the said present rate att a Day and time as
by Your Honours shall be appointed to Shew cause why the sd: pound rate should not
be Quashed and Your Peticoners easd in the Remisses

And Your Peticoners shall ever Pray Etc