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To the Right Honoble the Lord Mayor of the
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City of London and the Rest of the Worshipfull
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his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said
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City in their Generall Quarter Session of
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the Peace for the same City Assembled
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The humble Petition and Appeal of the Master,
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Governors and Commonalty of the Mystery of
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Barbers of London
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Sheweth
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That Your Petitioners are Seized in Fee of a
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certain Messuage or Tenement called or known by the Name
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of Barbers Hall situate in Monckwell Street in the parish
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of Saint Olave Silver Street London
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That by a certain Rate or Assessment made for
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the Relief of the poor of the said Parish on the sixth day
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of February now last past Your Petitioners by the
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Description of the Worshipfull Company of Barbers are
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Assessed and Charged towards the said Relief in the
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Sum of Nine pounds four Shillings for and in Respect
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of the said Messuage or Tenement and Hall for one
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Quarter of a Year from the 29th: day of September 1772
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to the 25th: day of December following
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That Your Petitioners are advised that the said
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excessive and unequal and Your Petitioners Said themselves
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aggrieved thereby And therefore humbly Appeal to this
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Honble Court against the said Rate or Assessment And Pray
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Relief in the Premisses And that this Honble Court will be
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pleased to hear and Determine this their Petition and
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Appeal at this present General Quarter Session of
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the peace.
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for the Appellants
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