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<p n="814">To the Right Honble The <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n814-1">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo831">City of London</rs>
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And the Rest of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n814-2">his Majesty</rs>
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's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15092_occ270">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for<lb></lb>
the said City at their Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the said<lb></lb>
City assembled.</p>
<p n="815">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n815-1">William Gill</rs>
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an<lb></lb>
Inhabitant of the Parish of Saint Sepulchre</p>
<p n="816"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That a Certain Rate or Taxation for Relief of the Poor of<lb></lb>
said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo832">Saint Sepulchre</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo833">City of London</rs>
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was Made and Published<lb></lb>
on theday of1780</p>
<p n="817">That Your Petitioner Apprehends himself Aggrieved by the in equality<lb></lb>
of the said Plate Conceiving the same is Partial and unequal For that your<lb></lb>
Petitioner Rents a House Yard and Premises of the Yearly Value of One<lb></lb>
Hundred and Fifty Pounds and is for the said House Yard and Premises<lb></lb>
Absolutely Rated by the said Parish to the full Extent thereof. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n817-1">When Richard</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Hall an Inhabitant of the said Parish Holding as House Yard and premises<lb></lb>
of the Yearly Value of Fifty Pounds is rated only Forty Common And<lb></lb>
Further That <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n817-2">Moses Cale</rs>
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or <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n817-3">Ritchard Holding</rs>
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a Shop House and Premises at the<lb></lb>
Yearly Value of Seventy Pound is rated only at Forty Five Pounds And<lb></lb>
For that Messrs Wetherhead and Company Holding a large House Shop<lb></lb>
and Other premises of the Yearly Value of One Hundred and Two Pounds is rates<lb></lb>
only at<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Eighty Five Pounds And For that <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15092_n817-4">Thomas Clarke</rs>
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Messers Stevens<lb></lb>
Guest, Spills bree, Sugden and All the Inhabitants of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15092_geo834">Clarkes Buildings</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Naggs head Court together with Several others in the said Parish are<lb></lb>
Rates in the proportions aforesaid and not to the Extent nor in any wise<lb></lb>
upon an Equality with you Petitioner which he apprehends is partial<lb></lb>
and unjuct</p>
<p n="818">That your Petitioners has a Material objection to<lb></lb>
the said Rate a Taxation and appretends himself to be Aggrieved<lb></lb>
thereby, by Reason of the unequal and unjust Manner of Rating<lb></lb>
as aforesaid And Therefore humbly appeals against such Rate<lb></lb>
or Taxation</p>
<p n="819">May 81</p>
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