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four pounds P Ann: are now Rated and Taxed; which were never Rated and Taxed before, by reason of their Poverty
to prevent their gaining Settlements and Coming Chargeable to the said Parish; the Rating of which poor persons, may brought
very great Charge upon the said Parish and that many Inhabitants of great Substance, live in Houses of Small Rents(very for
houses in the Said Parish being above twenty pound P Ann:) are not Charg'd according to their Abilities: And Divers of the Appell
and other Inhabitants there, who are poor [..] men, and have large Families, and forced to live in large houses to manage etc
on their Trades, are in, and by this Rate this much Over rated and Oppressed, and that the former method, used of making [..]
Discretionary Rate upon all the Inhabitants of the said Parish According to the Antient Usage and Custome there; will be [..]
more equall than a pound Rate.

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Your Petitionrs: therefore finding themselves aggriev'd by the Said Rate,humbly [..]
Appeale against the Same, and pray that this Court, would appoint a Day, for the [..]
hearing of the Said Appeales, and that the Rate for the reasons aforesaid, may be [..]
Luosh'd and Vacated, and that a more equal and just Rate may be made up
and every the Inhabitants of the Said Parish for the Reliefe of the Poor of the [..]
Parish According to the Antient Usage and Custome there: and According to [..]
Matiyes of the Inhabitants of the Said Parish and that yor Peticionres in the [..]
time may have Liberty to peruse and Inspect the said Rate and that the Said [..]
may be produced at the hearing of this Appeale, and that your Petitioners [..]
may be Otherwise relieved herein as to yor Worships shall Seem meet

And as in duty shall ever pray etc

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