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A Rents a Capital Messuage or
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of
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(late a Merchants) at £105 P ann where he exercises
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his Trade of Cabinet Maker, and to set easy, with respect to
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the Rent, A lots out part of his Capital Messuage ready
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Furnished to three eminent Merchants and Partners at
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£52 P annum
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Two of these Partners and there Man Servant lay in the
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House have their Compting House and Bed Chamber and,
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other Apartments (the no Warehouses) and carry on an
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extensive Trade as Merchants in Buying Selling & Remitting
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Note. There is but one large gateway, or Entry to this
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House and the Merchants Compting House and apartments
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lay backward towards the Garden and are separate and
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detached as it were from the rest of the House for their
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better Conveniency
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It is an Evil complained of and hurt full to the
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Commonalty on general that Merchants in the City of
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(Natives as well as Foreigners) who raise larger
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Fortunes for themselves and Family, by Trade stroud take
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this Method (as they frequently do) to Screen themselves
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(as Lodgers or Inmates) from Serving, ward or Parish
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Offices or Paying to Church and Poor whereby a due
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Rotation is prevented and the weight and Burden
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falls to heavier upon others of the Parish who are
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of ten less able to Serve or pay
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These Merchants are Rated to the Poors Rate
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which they refuse to Pay alledging they are Inmates
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only and not Liable.
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