Middlesex At the General Session of the Peace of our Lord the King holden
for the County of Middlesex at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street in the
said County (by Adjournment)on Saturday the Eighteenth day of
December in the fourteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the Third King of Great Britain Etc:

Whereas Major General John Salter< no role > , Thomas King< no role > , James Trimmer< no role > , and
Bateman Robson< no role > Inhabitants of the Parish of Chiswick in the said County of
Middlesex Have at this present Session Exhibited their Petition and Appeal setting forth
That on Thursday the Twenty first day of October then last the Churchwardens
and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Chiswick aforesaid did make a Rate and
Assessment for the Relief of the Poor of the said Parish for the present Year One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Three at Two Shillings in the Pound and which
Rate and Assessment was Signed and Allowed by Two Justices of the Peace for the
said Parish Church on Sunday the Fifth day of December Instant That at
the Time of making the said Rate Thomas Holland< no role > then one of the Churchwardens
of the said Parish and Henry Hawes< no role > another Inhabitant of the same Parish
pretending that their respective Rents in the Book of Poor's Rate for the Year one
Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Two were charged or sett too high (altho'
they never thought fit to Appeal from the same) and on that Pretence having
hither to refused to pay the Poors Rate for that Year as Assessed they requested and
the rest of the Officers then present agreed to permit those two Persons Rent and their
Rates for the Year one thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Three to be left in Blank
till the Justices at a Petty Session (who they imagined had a Power) should settle their
Rents and Rates for the Year one thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Two if they
had Authority so to as That at a Petty Session of the Peace for the Kensington Division
in which the Parish lyes held the thirtyeth day of October then last the said Thomas
Holland< no role > and Henry Hawes< no role > attended and represented their respective Cases to the Bench
in the manner they thought proper when the Justices did not nor indeed could they
make any Order thereon but only recommended to them if the Facts were as stated
to