To the Rt Honble Sr John Fryer< no role > Barrt Lord Mayor of the City
of London , & therest of his Majtys. Justices of the Peace at their General
Quarter Sessions of the Peace held in & for the said City Assembled

The humble Peticon & Appeal of Mordeca Knight< no role > , Wm Weeks< no role >
Edwd Percival< no role > - John Holdway< no role > - Edwd Ashworth< no role > - Wm Hall< no role >
John House< no role > - James Sabin< no role > - James Fawestt< no role > , Richd Marshall< no role >
Wm Folbigg - Anne Child< no role > - Joseph Holmes< no role > - Thomas Haynes< no role >
Mathew Trent< no role > - John Richardson< no role > - John Ash< no role > - and John
Munsie< no role >

Sheweth

That your Petrs severally occupy small houses in the parish
of St Giles without Cripplegate in the Freedom of the said City.

That your Petrs are This present year assessed and rated by the
Churchwardens and Overseers of the said Parish towards Relief
of their poor in several considerable Sums. vizt. The sd Mordeca
Knight 0:13:0 - Wm Weeks 1:6:0 Edwd Percival< no role > 0.10.4 John
Holdway< no role > 0:13:0 - Edward Ashworth< no role > 0.13.0 William Hall< no role > 0.13.0
John House< no role > 0:13:0 - James Sabin< no role > 0.8.8 - James Fawcett< no role > 0.13.0
Richd Marshall 0.13:0 - Wm Folbigg 0.13.0 - Anne Child< no role > 0:8:8
Joseph Holmes< no role > 0.13.0 Thomas Hayens 0:13.0 - Mathew
Trent< no role > 0.8.8 - John Richardson< no role > 0.8.8 - John Ash< no role > 0.13.0 &
John Munsie< no role > 0:17.4 - which is more in proportion than their
Neighbours in the said Parish are rated in the said Assessment

That not only your Petrs but Several other Occupiers of houses
are over rated, Several Substantial Inhabitants & Occupiers are
under rated, and Dr Bennet the present Near & several others of
the said Parish are wholly omitted to be rated at all, or even their
names incerted in the poors book, and no Inhabitants are there [..]
rated for their personall Estates, Whereby (as yor Petrs at advised)
the said Rate is illegall - at least your Petrs apprehend the same to be
very unequall & oppressive, And from which they appeal

Wherefore your Petrs most humbly pray That
the said Rate may be Quashed - Or that they
may be otherwise relieved in the premisses
as this Honble Court shall think fit

And yor. Petrs Shall ever pray Etc