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To the Right Honourable
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Brethien the Alderman of the same
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in
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Sessions Assembled
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The humble Petition and Appeal of
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner is Assessed the Sum of Five
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pounds for a Quarters rate towards the Releif of the Poor
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of the said
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payablethe
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nineteenth day of
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their Instant
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July last past on Account of several
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Standings Fruit Stalls Herb Stalls Fish Stalls & other Stalls
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& Standings in
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Fleet Market
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within the said Parish of Saint
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Bridgets which is much more than your Petitioner ought to
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pay & the said Assessment is made in breach of An Agreement
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made Between the Mayor & Comonalty & Citizens of the City of,
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London And the Minister and Church Wardens of the said Parish
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of
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bearing date the tenth day of February 1747
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whereby It was Agreed that the Chamberlain of the City of
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London should pay to the Church Wardens of the said Parish for
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the time being the Sum of Thirty pounds per Annum to
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commence from Lady day 1747 in lien of all Rates and
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Assessments towards Church and Poor and all Arreas
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thereof for the said Market for which and other reasons your
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Petitioner humbly apprehends the said Rate and Assessment
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to be Illegal and unjust & that the same ought to be Quarter
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Your Petitioner therefore humbly Prays
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that the said Rate and Assessment may
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be Quashed, or that your Petitioner may
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have such other Releif in the Premisses
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as to this Honourable Court shall seem
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just.
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And your Petr. shall ever pray Etc.
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