To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the Rest of
the Justices of the Peace for the City of London at the Quarter Sessions
of the Peace for the same City Assembled.

The humble Petition of John Tims< no role > and Thomas
Nicholl< no role > Gentleman

Sheweth

That your Petr. John Tims< no role > is Clerk of St Bartholomew
Hospital and your Petr. Thomas Nicholl< no role > is Renter thereof.

That by Virtue of their several Offices your Petrs.
reside in Houses part of the Buildings of the said
Hospital. And Your Petrs and their Predecessors for
time Immemorial have always been Except from all
Parochial Offices, Rates and Impositions

That of said Hospital is Scituate within the
Parish of St Bartholomew the less .

That by the Poors Rate of the said Parish made for
three months from the 19th. of October 1747 Your Petrs. John
Tims is charged twenty Shillings And twelve pounds
Arrears, And your Petrs Thomas Nicholl< no role > is charged ten
shillings and Six pounds Arrears; In Respect of the
said Houses.

That your Petrs. apprehend themselves to be Aggrieved
thereby, and are advised and humbly Submitt to the
Judgment of this Honourable Court, that they ought not
at all to her Charged to the said Rate

Therefore your Petrs. most humbly Appeal to
this Court therefrom, and pray such Redness
in the said Sessions as to the said Court
shall seem meet

And shall ever pray

John Tims< no role > .
Tho Nicholl< no role >