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and to the
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Worshipful the Aldermen his Majestys Justices
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of the Peace for the same City at their General
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Quarter Session of the Peace assembled.
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The humble Petition and Appeal of
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Henry Cothery
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Sheweth.
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That by a Rate or Assessment for the necessary Relief of the
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poor of the said Parish of Saint Stephen from the twenty
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fourth day of June to the twenty ninth day of September
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both now last past made and signed by the Major part of
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the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the said
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parish, and allowed and published as the Statutes in
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such Cases direct, your Petitioner is rated and assessed
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for and towards the Relief of the poor of the said parish
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the Sum of one pound five Shillings.
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That Your Petitioners humbly
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apprehending himself aggrieved by the
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said Rate and Assessment, and that the
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same is unequal and partial,
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appeals to your Lordship and Worships
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against the same, and prays that you
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would be pleased to quash or amend the
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same and grant your Petitioner such
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Relief in the Premisses as to your Lordp
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and Worships shall seem meet
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And your Petitoner shall ever pray Etc.
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