To the Right Worppfull his Majties Justices of the Peace for the
County of Middx in Quarter Sessions assembled.

The humble peticon & Appeal of Thomas Barnjum< no role > Walter Burton< no role > Robert Chambers< no role > [..] William
Nicholson< no role > John Lane< no role > Edward Morris< no role > Daniel Harrison< no role > Thomas Lane< no role > Samuel Pullin< no role > and Walter
Sibburn< no role > Landholders & Antient Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Mary Islington in the said County of Middx
on behalfe of themselves and many other Inhabitants that rent & own Lands in the said Parish whose
names are hereto subscribed.

Sheweth

That Fletcher Powell< no role > William Carter< no role > Charles Digard< no role > and William Gray< no role > present Overseers of the poor together
with some other Inhabitants Housholders in the said parish have privately & clandestinely without the Consent of the
Churchwardens or the antient & discreet Inhabitants of the said parish In ease of themselves and to burthen & oppress
your Peticonrs & others have made a halfe years Rate for the Reliefe of the Poor upon Occupiers of Lands and
house in the said parish comencing from Lady day last according to a Pound Rate After the rate of 3d. P pound upon
the Rents of the houses & lands in the said parish without any regard to the Ability of the person or to the great losses that often
happen to the Occupiers of Lands in the said parish which is an unusual way and contrary to the method & custom there
used & practiced is very unequal & oppressive to your Peticonr & other Occupiers of Land in the said parish as yor. Petr.
humbly concieve And that several houses & Lands which ought to be assessed are wholly omitted out of the said Rate and
many of the said Inhabitants are under rated in the said Rate in respect to their Abilities the Rich thereby excused and
the Poor oppressed and many persons are rated in the said Rate for more Rent than they actually pay And that most of
the houses in the said parish consist in small Rents & very few £15. P Ann And that many persons inhabiting in
houses of 30. & 40 still P Ann are now rated & assessed which were never rated before by reason of their poverty & to
prevent their gaining Settlements & becoming chargeable to the said parish. That many Inhabitants of great Substance live
in houses of small Rents are charged only according to the Rent they pay & not according to their Ability And divers of the
Appellts who have but small Substance & large families are forced to hold great Farms for the maintenance & Support of
themselves & families & do often meet with great losses and are at great expence labour & pains in raising of their Rents
& are by this Rate much over rated & oppressed That the former & antient method used in making a Discretionary Rate upon
the Inhabitants of the said parish is much more equal than a pound rate.

Yor. Petr. therefore finding themselves aggrieved by the said Rate humbly [..]
appeal against the same & pray that this Court will appoint a day for
hearing the said Appeal And that the said Rate for the reasons aforesaid
[..] a vacated and that a more equal & just Rate may be made