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<p n="59">To the Right Honoble the Lord Mayor of the<lb></lb>
City of London and the Rest of the Worshipfull<lb></lb>
his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said<lb></lb>
City in their Generall Quarter Session of<lb></lb>
the Peace for the same City Assembled</p>
<p n="60">The humble Petition and Appeal of the Master,<lb></lb>
Governors and Commonalty of the Mystery of<lb></lb>
Barbers of London</p>
<p n="61"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That Your Petitioners are Seized in Fee of a<lb></lb>
certain Messuage or Tenement called or known by the Name<lb></lb>
of Barbers Hall situate in Monckwell Street in the parish<lb></lb>
of Saint Olave Silver Street London</p>
<p n="62">That by a certain Rate or Assessment made for<lb></lb>
the Relief of the poor of the said Parish on the sixth day<lb></lb>
of February now last past Your Petitioners by the<lb></lb>
Description of the Worshipfull Company of Barbers are<lb></lb>
Assessed and Charged towards the said Relief in the<lb></lb>
Sum of Nine pounds four Shillings for and in Respect<lb></lb>
of the said Messuage or Tenement and Hall for one<lb></lb>
Quarter of a Year from the 29th: day of September 1772<lb></lb>
to the 25th: day of December following</p>
<p n="63">That Your Petitioners are advised that the said<lb></lb>
Rate or Assessment so made on Your Petitioners is<lb></lb>
excessive and unequal and Your Petitioners Said themselves<lb></lb>
aggrieved thereby And therefore humbly Appeal to this<lb></lb>
Honble Court against the said Rate or Assessment And Pray<lb></lb>
Relief in the Premisses And that this Honble Court will be<lb></lb>
pleased to hear and Determine this their Petition and<lb></lb>
Appeal at this present General Quarter Session of<lb></lb>
the peace.</p>
<p n="64"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n64-1">James Mary</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSLPS15085_n64-1" type="surname" value="Mary"></interp>
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& <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15085_occ23">Sollor</rs>
<interp inst="LMSLPS15085_occ23" type="occupation" value="Sollor"></interp>
for the Appellants</p>
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