To the Right honble Humphry Parsons< no role >
Esqr . & Lord Mayor of the City of London and
to the Right Worshipfull the rest of his
Majestyes Justices of the peace for the
same City & Liberty is thereof in their
Genall Quarter Sessions Assembled

The humble Peticon & Appeale of
the Master & Wardens of the
Company of Waxchandlers
London

Sheweth

That the Hall belonging to the Company of
WaxChandlers with its Appurtences being very small
is scituate in Maiden Lane & Gutter Lane in the
Parish of St. John Zachary London And is Lett out
at the yearly Rent of Forty pounds & no more And
that your Peticoners out of the said Forty pounds
P Ann do pay all the Taxes on the Same amounting
to the Sume of Seventeen pounds P Ann & upwards
and that the said Hall now Stands Rated & Assessed
for no other or greater yearly Rent or Sume than
Forty pounds P Ann in the Kings Tax Books.

That the Churchwardens & Overseers of the poor
of the said parish or some of them have for severall
years last past & particularly for the last year
1730 rated the said Waxchandlers Hall in the Sume
of Five pounds as for & towards the Releife of the
poor of the said parish which (as your Petrs. Do
humbly Apprehend) is more in proporcon than
diverse others who are Inhabitants in the sd. parish
do pay for their Houses (proportioning their Rents
with the Rent or yearly Value of Waxchandlers Hall)