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To {John Milner< no role > This name instance is in set 4214. &
John Richardson< no role > } Esqrs Assessors for the
Parish of St. Giles .

Will: Powlett< no role >
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Ed: Gould< no role >
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John Ellis< no role >
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Wm: Gore< 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 fouth part of one Months 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 of her 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 last) upon all Lands,
Tenements, Hereditaments, Annunities, 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 Parish 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 charge any of the Houses or Lands belonging to Shriffs
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
cost 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 Covant Garden on Wednesday the thirteenth day of
December next at ten of the Clock in the forenoon hereof you may not
fail, upon pain of twenty pounds. Dated this fifteenth Day of November
Anno Domini 1721.

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

An Account of Money Received by Peter Forbes< no role > Esqr . Treasurer
of the Trophy Money from the 25th of July 1721 to the 10th. of
August 1722.