To the Right Honorable the Lord
Mayor and the rest of his Majesty< no role > 's Justices
of the Peace for the City of London at their General
Quarter Session of the Peace assembled

The humble Petition of John Eyles< no role > Esqr
Warden of his Majesty< no role > 's Prison the Fleet

Sheweth

That your Petitioner by a rate or assessment on
the several Inhabitants of the parish of Saint Bridget
otherwise Bride in the Ward of Farringdon without in
the CIty of London made and aforesaid on the twenty ninth
day of June last for the relief of the Poor thereof And by
another rate or assessment on the several Inhabitants
of the said Parish made and assessed on the fifth day of
October last for the relief of the Poor thereof and by another
rate or Assessment on the several Inhabitants of the
said Parish made and assessed on the fourth day of January
last hath been as an Inhabitant of the said Parish rated
and assessed to pay to the relief of the said Poor the Sum of
Forty five pounds for the said three quarters of a year being
at the rate of Fifteen pounds per quarter from Lady day
to Christmas last.

Your Petitioner conceiving himself aggrieved by
the said Rates or Assessments the same not being equal
and equitable rates according to the several rents and
the property of the respective inhabitants of the said
parish

Humbly prays that the said Rates or Assessments
so far as they relate to your Petitioner may be
quashed or set a side or that such further or other
relief may be granted to your Petitioner as to his
Honourable Court shall seem meet

J Eyles< no role >