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To the Right Worshipfull her Maties
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Justices of the Peace
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for the County of Middx
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The Humble Peticon and Appeale of
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Hannah Archer
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Widdow
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of
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the
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Parish of St. Gyles Cripplegate
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in the said County
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Sheweth
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That your Peticoner did in July sessions 1706 Appeale to this
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Court against a Rate of two pence is weeke to the Poor of the sd Parish and
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on hearing all is Ptyes was by this Court Reduced to one Penny is wake as P
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order here unto annexed doth Appcare, And your Peticoner did in last
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July Sessions Appeale to this Court against A Rate of three halfe pence P
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weeke to the Poor, which this Court Referred to
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Joseph Short
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Richard
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Browne
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Benjamin Hilton
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John Crosbie
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Esqs
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or any two of them, who
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summioned before them all Ptyes and by Consent of the Inhabitants
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your Peticoner was Redused to one Penny is weeke As P Order
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here unto annexed doth Appeare, your Peticon further Sheweth
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that she is this Present yeare Rated three halfe pence P weeke to the
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Poor which comes to about thirty five shillings for the whole yeare
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and that she lives in the same House. when the same orders were made
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(which house is about Sd P Ann) And your Peticoner is now of noe
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better Ability then she was then, And your Peticoner can make
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it Appeare that there are Persons in the send Parish that Lives
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in House of Greater Rents and of better Ability that are not
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Rated in propertion to your Peticoner
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Against which said Rate your Peticonr humbly
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Appeales to this Court And prays such Releife in
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the Premisses as to your worshipps shall seeme
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meet
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And your Peticonr shall ever Pray Etc
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