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To the Right Honourable
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Henry Marshall
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General Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled.
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The humble Petition and appeal of
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James Dandridge
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Christopher Barratt
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Saint
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London
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Sheweth
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Martin Wardell
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the twenty seventh Day of March 1745 for
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the Relief of the Poor of the said Parish for nineteen Weeks to commence the 26th Day
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of November 1744 unto the 8th of April follewing, Your Petitioners are assessed at the
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Bate of 11s 6½ and 1s 5½d in all thirteen Shillings a Week amounting in the whole
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to the Sam of £10..9s..3½d for the said nineteen Week which Rate or Assesment your
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Petitioner humbly apprehend to be very unequal unjust and contrary to Law in as
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much as
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Nathaniel Highmore
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Martin Wardell
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Joseph Higgleworth
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Edward Jeffs
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and Co.
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William Baker
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and Co.
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Thomas
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Roberts
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William Mills
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Thomas Planted
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Cheesborough and diverse others
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substantial Parishioners and Inhabitants in the said Parish are rated and assesed in the
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said Assesment above one half lower than your Petitoners are rated in the said
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assessment when at the same Time Several of them are of much superior abilities to
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your Petitioners and abundantly more able to bear the Burthen of maitaining the
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Poor of the said Parish and live in House of as near as high Rents as your Petionrs.
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Wherefore your Petitiners thinking themselves aggrieved by the
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said Rate or Assessment appeal of this Honourable Court for
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Relief in the Premisses and humbly pray that you: Lordship
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and Worships will hear the same and make such Order and
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Determination therein as to you in your Judgments shall seem
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most equitable and just,
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And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc
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James Dandridge
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for Self & Co
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