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<p n="40">To <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15063_occ30">the Rt. Honoble</rs>
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: <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15063_n40-1">Thomas Winter bottom</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15063_occ31">Esqr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15063_occ32">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
ye. <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15063_geo46">City of London</rs>
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, & to ye. Worshipful ye. rest of His Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15063_occ33">Justices of ye. Peace</rs>
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for ye. said City & ye. Liberties thereof in<lb></lb>
their General Quarter Session assembled.</p>
<p n="41">The Humble Petition and Appeal<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15063_n41-1">Samuel Stratton</rs>
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</p>
<p n="42"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth,</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner being an Inhabitant & House holder<lb></lb>
in ye. Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15063_geo47">St. Katherine Creechurch</rs>
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, London, is never theless by<lb></lb>
certain Rates or Assessments, made for Relief of ye. Poor of ye. Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15063_geo48">St. James Duke's place</rs>
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, London, Rated and Assessed Towards the sd.<lb></lb>
Relief, in ye. Sum of Nine Shillings & four Pence P Ann, at the<lb></lb>
Rate of One Shilling and two Pence in ye. Pound, for and in respect<lb></lb>
of a certain Peice or Plott of Ground, Situate behind, and adjoining to<lb></lb>
your Petitioner's dwelling House. for Which, he pays Eight Pounds P<lb></lb>
And Rent, and is All, or, at least , Seven Ninths thereof (as your<lb></lb>
Petitioner humbly conceives) in the Said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15063_geo49">St. Katherine Cree-<lb></lb>
-church</rs>
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, whereunto, Your Petitioner is charged, and actually pays all<lb></lb>
Parochial and other Taxes.</p>
<p n="43">Wherefore your Petitioner conceiveth himself<lb></lb>
agrieved by the said Rates or Assessments, as unequal,<lb></lb>
partial, and illegal, and doth Appeal to your Lordship &<lb></lb>
Worships therefore, And humbly prays that the same,<lb></lb>
(So far as they concern your Petitioner) may be Quashed<lb></lb>
or Set aside, Or that your Petitioner may be otherwise<lb></lb>
relived in the Premisses, as to your Lordship & Worships<lb></lb>
Shall seem just and equitable; And that the Churchwardns.<lb></lb>
and Overseers of ye. Poor of ye. said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15063_geo50">Parish of St. James<lb></lb>
Duke's place</rs>
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, may appear before you, at a certain Day to be<lb></lb>
appointed, to hear & abide ye. Judgement & Determination<lb></lb>
of your Lordship & Worships, touching this Appeal.</p>
<p n="44">And yor. Petitioners Shall pray Etc.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15063_n44-1">Saml. Stratton</rs>
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