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Charles Asgill
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of the City of
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London, & to the Worshipful the rest of this Majesty's Justices of
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the Peace for the said City & the Liberties thereof in their General
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Quarter Session assembled.
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The humble Petition and Appeal of
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Heron
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That in the Year 1755, Your Petitioner purchased the Place or
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Office of Sword bearer of this City, and was duly admitted into the same,
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To have, hold, exercise and enjoy the said Place, with all Fees, Proffits
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Commodities thereunto due & of Right belonging (as also the keeping of
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the sessions House)
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That the sd. sessions House being situate in ye. Parish of
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St.
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sepulchres
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, London, Yor. Petitioner hath ever since his Admission into ye.
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sd. Place, been Rated towards ye. Relief of ye. Poor, & all other ye. Levies & Taxes of
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ye sd. Parish, for & in respect of ye. sd. Premisses, wch he paid till ye. Month of April
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last, when he discontinued paying the same.
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That your Petitioner being informed, that by a Rate or Rates, made
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for the Relief of ye. Poor of ye. sd. Parish your Petitioner is therein charged ye. sum of
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15s. 7½d P Quarter towards ye. sd. Relief for & in respect of ye. Sessions House, altho he
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is not an Inhabitant in ye. sd. Parish, nor as Occupier of ye. sd. Premisses, wch are safely
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appropriated to ye. Use of ye. Publick in ye. holding of Courts of Justice.
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That our Petitioner Conceiving himself aggrieved by ye. sd. Rate or
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Rates, as illegal & unwarrentable, Doth Appeal to yor. Lordp and
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Worships therefrom & humbly prays, that such Rate or Rates, so farr
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as they regard yor. Petitioner, may be Quashed, set a side & vacated,
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And that your Peticoner may be Relieved in ye Premisses, as this
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Honble. Courts hall think fit.
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And your Petitioner shall pray etc.
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