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Will: Powlett< no role >
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Char. Eatton< no role >
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Cha. Greenwood< no role >
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Whereas by an Act of Parliament, intituled, an Act for Ordering the Forces in
the several Counties of this Kingdom; power and Authority is given to his Majesty's
Lieutenants, and Deputy Lieutenants, or any three or more of them, to lay
yearly the fourth part of one Month's Assessment upon each County, after the
Rate of seventy thousand Pounds by the Month for furnishing Ammunition
and other Necessaries, as in and by the said Act, as also by one other Act of
Parliament, intituled, An Additional Act for the better Ordering the Forces in
the several Counties of this Kingdom, is directed and appointed. These are therefore
in his Majesty's Name to require and command you to make an equal Assessment
(by a Pound Rate as formerly) of the Sum of seventeen pounds thirteen
Shillings and four Pence (being for one Year, from the 24th of June 1720)
upon all Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Annuities, Rents, Parks,
Warrens, Fee-Farm Rents, Goods, Chattels, Stock, Merchandize, Offices usually
rated, Tolls, Profits, and all other Estates, both Real and personal, within the
limits, Circuits, and Bounds, of your District aforesaid; and you are to take care
that no part of the said Assessment be rated or impos'd upon any person, not
being of Ability to pay the same, or be extended to charge any Master, Fellow,
or Scholar of any College in either of the Universities, or in the College of
Westminster , Eaton, or Winchester, or in any other Free Schools, or any
Reader, Officer, or Minister of the said Universities, Colleges, or Schools, or
of any Hospitals, or Alms-Houses, for or in respect of any stipend, Wages,
or profit whatsoever arising or growing due to them in respect of the said
several places and Employments in the said Universities, Colleges, Schools,
Hospitals, or Alms-Houses, nor to change any of the Houses or Lands belonging
to Christ's hospital , St. Bartholomew , Bridewell , St. Thomas, and Bethlem
Hospitals, in the City of London and Borough of Southwark , or any of them,
for or in respect of any Rents or Revenues payable to the said Hospitals;
nevertheless you are to Assess the Tenants of all such Lands or Houses, for so
much as the same are yearly worth over-and-above the Rents reserved and
payable to the said Hospitals. Two Books of which Assessment, fairly written,
exactly cast up, and up, and sign'd by you, together with the names of two or more
fit persons to be Collectors thereof, you are to bring unto us, unto our Court in
the little Piazza in Covent Garden on Tuesday the thirtieth day of August
next at ten of the Clock in the forenoon hereof you may not fail, upon pein
of Twenty pounds. Dated this sixteenth day of July Anno Domini 1720.

On the back of the last recited warrant are endorsed the words following
St. Giles in the Fields St. Margarets Westm.