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Quarter Sessions of the Peace Assembled
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John Baker
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Jonathan
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Marcroft
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Hanna Cornish
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Elizabeth Frey
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Mary Boulter
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Humbly Sheweth
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That Your Peticoners being Inhabitants in the P
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where they have lived severall Years and paid the Sesser rates that have
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been from time to time charged upon ym: respectively by the severall Churchwardens
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and Overseers of the Poor of the same Parish for Support of the Poore thereof
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But Your Peticoners being now severally Groved by this present Sess or rate for
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the Poor Made upon the Inhabitants of the sd: Parish by the present
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Francis Foster
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William
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Long
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the sd: rate being very unequall and imposed in an unusuall
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and different manner from all the Poors rates hereto fore made in the Sd: Parish the same
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being or by the said Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor pretended to be pound rate which
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your Peticoners conceive not to bewarranted by or Pursueant to the Act of Parliament
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in yt: Caw Made and Provided and which Method if Drawn into Practice in the City of London
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will be of very ill consequences to the Inhabitants thereof and by which sd present rate Your
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Peticoners are rated & assessed much higher than many others of the Inhabitants of the sd: Parish
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and
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who are of greater Ability and also much higher than your Peticoners used to be rated Whereas
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such said other Inhabitants are by the sd present rate rated much lower than they used to be
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And Your Peticoners
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Hannah Cornish
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Sarah Daniell
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Mary Boulter
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Elizabeth Collins
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by
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reason of their Poverty are not able to pay the said rate upon them imposed
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Wherefore Your Peticoners humbly Pray Your Honour & Worshipps
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to relieve them and Order the Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor of
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the sd: Parish to Appear and produce the said present rate att a Day and time as
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by Your Honours shall be appointed to Shew cause why the sd: pound rate should not
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be Quashed and Your Peticoners easd in the Remisses
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And Your Peticoners shall ever Pray Etc
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