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To Sr:
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Gerrard Conyors
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Ld: Mayor
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of the City of London & to the rest of the Justices
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of the Peace at their General Quarter Sessions assembled.
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The Humble Peticon of
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Josiah Knight
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Francis Nichols
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Edward Coggs
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James Wortham
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in ye said City.
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Sheweth
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That
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Thos: Ryland
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George Franckling
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Jno: Preston
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Jno: Knighton
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Thos: Hughes
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being or pretending to be
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Church-wardens
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Overseers of ye poor
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Francis Stonard
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Joseph Huntman
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Edmund Banyer
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Francis Roberts
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James Stanly
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vestry Men
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of ye said Parish did on or about ye Month of May last Sign a Rate
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or Assessment on Your Petitioners & the Rest of the Parishoners & Inhabitants of
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the said Parish, Amounting to ye sum of 600 & upwards, for or towards or under pristine
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of Releaving yr poor of ye said Parish or Leeying or Raising money by vertue or in presence
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of ye statute made in ye 43d year of ye Reign of Queen Elizabeth relating to ye Reliefe of the Poor
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and setting them to Work.
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And also that George Franckling
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Willm: Skerret
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Jno: Preston Jno: Kinghton & Thomas
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Hughes did on or about October last Sign Another Rate or Assessment on your Petitioners
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& yr Rest of the Parishoners & Inhabitants of yr said Parish Amounting to yr. sum of £300
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& upwards, for or towards or under pretean of Releving yr Poor of yr said Parish both wit
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Rates were confirm'd by Sr:
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Edward Becher
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:
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Alderman
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of ye said Ward, And your Petitioners
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humbly conceiving themselves aggrevies by both ye said Rates, being as they humbly
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apprehend made after an Arbitrary & very all Manner, & one of them without any
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and Occassion.
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Wherefore & for that your Petitioners are Appreahensive yt ye Money raised
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& to be raised by ye said Rates or one of them is intended to be applyed for some
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sinister, or other uses not Warranted by the afore mentioned statute and
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contrary to yr Express Word: of Two Other Statues, One made in ye Third
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& Fourth - Year of King William & Queen Mary the Other in the Eighth & Ninth Year
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of King William, And for Diverson other Reasons Partiality & before
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in concerning both the said Rats year Petitioners do hereby Humbly
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Appeal from and against both the said Rates as Illegal & Appressise
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And pray that Ye would be pleased to Quash & make Void the Said
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Rates or one of them, or Grant to your Petitioners such other Releife
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respecting the some, or take such Order therein, as to You,
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(in Your Grant Wisdom) shall be thought Convenient according to
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the Forms of ye said statutes.
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And your Petitioners shall low ever pray Etc.
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