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<p n="5">To the Right honble <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15043_n5-1">Humphry Parsons</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ3">Esqr</rs>
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. & <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ4">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15043_geo4">City of London</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
to the Right Worshipfull the rest of his<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ5">Majestyes Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
same City & Liberty is thereof in their<lb></lb>
Genall Quarter Sessions Assembled</p>
<p n="6">The humble Peticon & Appeale of<lb></lb>
the Master & Wardens of the<lb></lb>
Company of Waxchandlers<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15043_geo5">London</rs>
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<p n="7"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That the Hall belonging to the Company of<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15043_occ6">WaxChandlers</rs>
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with its Appurtences being very small<lb></lb>
is scituate in Maiden Lane & Gutter Lane in the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15043_geo6">St. John Zachary</rs>
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London And is Lett out<lb></lb>
at the yearly Rent of Forty pounds & no more And<lb></lb>
that your Peticoners out of the said Forty pounds<lb></lb>
P Ann do pay all the Taxes on the Same amounting<lb></lb>
to the Sume of Seventeen pounds P Ann & upwards<lb></lb>
and that the said Hall now Stands Rated & Assessed<lb></lb>
for no other or greater yearly Rent or Sume than<lb></lb>
Forty pounds P Ann in the Kings Tax Books.</p>
<p n="8">That the Churchwardens & Overseers of the poor<lb></lb>
of the said parish or some of them have for severall<lb></lb>
years last past & particularly for the last year<lb></lb>
1730 rated the said Waxchandlers Hall in the Sume<lb></lb>
of Five pounds as for & towards the Releife of the<lb></lb>
poor of the said parish which (as your Petrs. Do<lb></lb>
humbly Apprehend) is more in proporcon than<lb></lb>
diverse others who are Inhabitants in the sd. parish<lb></lb>
do pay for their Houses (proportioning their Rents<lb></lb>
with the Rent or yearly Value of Waxchandlers Hall)</p>
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