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To the Right Honble The
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And the Rest of
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in and for
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the said City at their Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the said
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City assembled.
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The Humble Petition of
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That a Certain Rate or Taxation for Relief of the Poor of
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was Made and Published
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on theday of1780
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That Your Petitioner Apprehends himself Aggrieved by the in equality
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of the said Plate Conceiving the same is Partial and unequal For that your
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Petitioner Rents a House Yard and Premises of the Yearly Value of One
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Hundred and Fifty Pounds and is for the said House Yard and Premises
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Absolutely Rated by the said Parish to the full Extent thereof.
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When Richard
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Hall an Inhabitant of the said Parish Holding as House Yard and premises
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of the Yearly Value of Fifty Pounds is rated only Forty Common And
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Further That
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Moses Cale
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a Shop House and Premises at the
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Yearly Value of Seventy Pound is rated only at Forty Five Pounds And
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For that Messrs Wetherhead and Company Holding a large House Shop
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and Other premises of the Yearly Value of One Hundred and Two Pounds is rates
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only at
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Guest, Spills bree, Sugden and All the Inhabitants of
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Naggs head Court together with Several others in the said Parish are
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Rates in the proportions aforesaid and not to the Extent nor in any wise
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upon an Equality with you Petitioner which he apprehends is partial
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and unjuct
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That your Petitioners has a Material objection to
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the said Rate a Taxation and appretends himself to be Aggrieved
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thereby, by Reason of the unequal and unjust Manner of Rating
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as aforesaid And Therefore humbly appeals against such Rate
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or Taxation
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May 81
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