To the Worshipful His Majestys Justices of the peace
for the County of Middlesex at the General Quarter
Session of the peace holden in and for the said County
Assembled.

The Humble Petition and Appeal of
John Graves< no role > of the parish of Saint John &
Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex &
Carpenter

Sheweth

That by a certain Rate or Assessment made on Your Petitioner and
other Inhabitants of the parish of Saint John Clerkenwell in the County
of Middlesex by the Commissioners appointed for putting in Execution
an Act of parliament made in the Eleventh year of the Reign of His
present Majesty King George the Third Intituled "An Act for repairing
"cleansing lighting and watching the Streets Squares Lanes and other
"passages within the parish of Saint John Clerkenwell in the
"County of Middlesex and for removing Obstructions and Annoyances
"therein" for one whole Year commencing for Midsummer Day One
thousand seven hundred and eighty four your petitioner is rated
and charged at the Sum of Twenty five pounds as and for the
yearly Rent of a certain Messuage or Tenement and premises in
the occupation of your petitioner situate in Red Lyon street in
the said Parish of Saint John Clerkenwell Whereas your petitioner
ought not to have been rated or charged in the said Rate or Assessment
at any greater Rent than the yearly Rent of Sixteen pounds ten
Shillings for and in respect of the said Messuage or Tenement and
premises being the Rent your petitioner now pays and has paid
from Lady Day one thousand Seven hundred and eighty two for
the said Messuage or Tenement and premises by virtue of an
Indenture of Lease made to your petitioner thereof.

That your petitioner is rated and charged in and by the