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To the Right honble
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and
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to the Right Worshipfull the rest of his
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for the
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same City & Liberty is thereof in their
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Genall Quarter Sessions Assembled
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The humble Peticon & Appeale of
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the Master & Wardens of the
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Company of Waxchandlers
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Sheweth
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That the Hall belonging to the Company of
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with its Appurtences being very small
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is scituate in Maiden Lane & Gutter Lane in the
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Parish of
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St. John Zachary
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London And is Lett out
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at the yearly Rent of Forty pounds & no more And
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that your Peticoners out of the said Forty pounds
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P Ann do pay all the Taxes on the Same amounting
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to the Sume of Seventeen pounds P Ann & upwards
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and that the said Hall now Stands Rated & Assessed
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for no other or greater yearly Rent or Sume than
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Forty pounds P Ann in the Kings Tax Books.
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That the Churchwardens & Overseers of the poor
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of the said parish or some of them have for severall
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years last past & particularly for the last year
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1730 rated the said Waxchandlers Hall in the Sume
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of Five pounds as for & towards the Releife of the
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poor of the said parish which (as your Petrs. Do
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humbly Apprehend) is more in proporcon than
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diverse others who are Inhabitants in the sd. parish
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do pay for their Houses (proportioning their Rents
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with the Rent or yearly Value of Waxchandlers Hall)
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