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September 1754

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Middx


At the General Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King holden for the County
Middx at Hicks Hall un Saint John Street in the County aforesaid by adjournment on Thursday the
twelfth day of September in the twenty eight year of the regin of our Sovereign Lord George the
second King of Great Britain Etc before Thomas Lane< no role > Pierce Galliard< no role > Merry Teshmaker< no role >
Francis Bedwell< no role > Esquires and others their Fellows Justices of our said Lord the
King assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers
Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds committed in the same County.

Whereas Edmund Adlington< no role > Thomas Gibson< no role > William Smith< no role > and Philip Roberts< no role > Inhabitants of the Parish of St. George
in the County of Middx on behalf of themselves and divers other Inhabitants of the said
Parish exhibited their humble Petition and Appeals unto the Court of the last General
Quarter Session of the Peace begin and holden for the said County on Monday the
Fifteenth day of July last Setting forth That Rates [..] have been lately made by James
Manbey
< no role > and Henry Ripp< no role > Churchwardens and John Kebbell< no role > Philip Splidt< no role > Francis
Robson
< no role > and Edward Fox< no role > under pretence that the said John Kebbell< no role > Philip Splidt< no role > Francis
Robson
< no role > and Edward fox< no role > are Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Saint George upon
the Inhabitants and Occupiers of Lands Houses and Gardens Within the upper and Lower Divisions the
same Parish for the Reliefe of the Poor thereof for this present Year One thousand
seven hundred and fifty four which Rates the Petitioners are advised [..] are not only
inproperly and unduty made and coatrary to the several Acts of Parliament in that behalf
For that the said John Kebbell< no role > Philip Splidt< no role > Francis Robson< no role > and Edward fox< no role > never were
nor was any one of them properly and duly appointed Overseers of the Poor of the said
Parish, And for that no Notice was given by the said James Manbey< no role > and Henry
Ripp
< no role > to John Wilson< no role > Henry Smith< no role > James Caney< no role > and David Nesbitt< no role > their
Co-Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish And for that the said John Wilson< no role >
Henry Smith< no role > James Caney< no role > and David Nesbitt< no role > did not Join with the said James
Manbey
< no role > and Henry Ripp< no role > in making the said Rates And for that the said Rates [..] are made
for a longer time than is allowed by the said Acts of Parliament And that the
Petitioners are also advised that the said Rates are partial unequal appressive and
unjustfor that the said Rate are on by made for part of the Parish andfor that each of ye is made but for part of the said Parish for that
several of the Inhabitants of the said Parish who are Persons of great substance
and Ability are undercharged in the said Rates and that several other Inhabitants of
the said Parish of less substance are over assessed in the said Rates And that the
Petitioners for the wasous aforesaid are greatly aggrieved by the aforesaid and
humbly appealed against the same and prayed that the said Rates may be quashed
and vaceted and that the said Poors Rates may be produced before the said Court
at such time as the said Court should appoint for the hearing and determining the
Matter of the said Appeals And whereas by an Order made by the same Court on the
said fifteenth day of July last it was ordered that the Churchwardens and Overseers of
the Poor of the said Parish of Saint George should have Notice of the said Appeals
and that they and all Persons concerned should attend the said Court in Thursday the




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