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<p n="78">To the Right Honourable Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n78-1">John Thompson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15049_occ35">Knight</rs>
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Lord Mayor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15049_geo59">City of London</rs>
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& others<lb></lb>
his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15049_occ36">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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at their General<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions Assembled</p>
<p n="79">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n79-1">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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one of the<lb></lb>
Inhabitants of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15049_geo60">St. Bridgett otherwise St.<lb></lb>
Bridges</rs>
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in the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15049_geo61">Faringdon without</rs>
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<p n="80"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner occupys a Collar under the hand<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15049_n80-1">William Merrifield</rs>
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in the said Parish for which he pays the yearly<lb></lb>
Rent of £14 & no more</p>
<p n="81">That your Petitioner finds himself rated & Assessed unto<lb></lb>
thesd or of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15049_geo62">St. Bridges</rs>
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aforesd. in a very unequal manner of which your<lb></lb>
Petitioner till lately was entirely Iqnorant no person having<lb></lb>
demanded the same until abt. a Week agoe & not before when the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Church Wardens of the said Parish or Some persons on their baha<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
demanded of him 12s. for one half year<obscured></obscured>
Lady day to Mich<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
day Last by a Rate to the Poor</p>
<p n="82">That ye Petitioner conceives himself aggrieved by the<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Rate for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15049_geo63">Parish of St. Brides</rs>
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as also for 18s P Quarter<lb></lb>
Assessed & Rated to your Petitioner for the Watch Which said R<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
or either of them Yor Petitioner humbly apprehends he is not by able<lb></lb>
to pay Your Petitioner being only an Inmate & pays an Advanced<lb></lb>
Rent to the Landlord of the said Cellar on Account of his being<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
from paying the sd Rates as aforesd.</p>
<p n="83">That in Case your Petitioner Shall be obliged to pay Rates<lb></lb>
to the poor & the Watch or either of them Your Petitioner is very<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Over rated in proportion to the Rest of the Inhabitants of the<obscured></obscured>
</p>
<p n="84">Your Petitioner therefore humbly Pray<lb></lb>
he may be Relieved agt. the sd. Assessmt in<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Manner as shall be just</p>
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