Kitchiner Esquires two of his Majestys Justices of the Peace
in and for the County of Middlesex was served on your
Petitioner to appear before them on Friday then next at
Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon at the Vestry Room
belonging to the said Parish of Saint of Clement Danes to shew
Cause why he had refused or neglected to pay Twenty one
Pounds (being the Amount of the several Sums so rated
and assessed on your Petitioner as abovementioned) for
five Years and a half Poor Rates due at Christmas
last for his Chambers in Serles Court Lincolns Inn by
the said Summons supposed to be in the said Parish of
Saint Clement Danes .

That Your Petitioner and Appellant apprehends
himself greatly aggrieved by his being so rated by the said
several Rates or Assessments abovementioned for that his
said Chambers either never were in the paid Parish of
Saint Clement Danes or if they were yet the Ground
whereon the same built or the far greater part
thereof was antiently and long before the forty third
Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by legal Authority
taken out of the said Parish and before was never charged
to the Relief of the Poor of the said Parish nor is subject
to any of the Usuages or Customs thereof

Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays that
this Court will quash the several Rates herein
before mentioned And that this Court will be pleased
to award and order your Petitioner Costs respecting
the present Appeal to be paid him by the
Respondants or to grant your Petitioner such
Relief in the Premisses as to your Worships shall
seem meet and your Petitioner will ever pray Etc

Adams & J Einderley Sollrs .
for the sd. Barwell Brown< no role > Esqr .