Middx ss:

Ad General Quarterial Session paris Dui Regis tent
P Com Middx apnd Hickshall in St. John Street in
Com prd P adjorn die Lune scilt Vicesimo quinto
die July anno regin Dui Georgy mmc Regis
magne Britannie etc primo coram Johe
Rotherham< no role > martino Ryder< no role > Johe Metcalfe< no role > Johe
Milner< no role > Armigeris & al Secys sins Justic dci Dui
Regis ad pacem in Com prd. conservand not non
ad divers Felow tusgr & ad maleforta in oodnd
Com P petrat audiend & terminand assign etc

whereas upon reading the humble peticon & appeale of Thomas
Barujum< no role > , walter Burton< no role > , Robert Chambers< no role > , william
Nicholson< no role > & others Land holders & antient Inhabitants
of the parish of st. Mary Islington in this County on
behalfe of themselves & other Inhabitants that rent
& owne lands in the said parish exhibited unto
this Court Settingforth that Fletcher powell< no role > , william
Carter< no role > , Charles Digard< no role > & william Gray< no role > present
overseers of the poor together with some other
Inhabitants Householders in the said parish have
privately & claudestinely without the consent of
[..] of the Churchwardens or the antient
& discreet Inhabitants of the sd parish In ease
of themselves and to burthen & oppress the petrs. &
others have made a halfe yeares rate for the
releife of the poor upon the occupiers of lands &
houses in the said parish comenceing from
Lady day last according to a pound rate after the
rate of three pence 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 sd parish, which is an unusuall
way & contrary to the method & custome there used
& practiced is very unequall & oppressive to the
petrs: & other occupiers of land in the said parish as