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To the Right Worspl. his Matys Justices of the Peace
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for the County of
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The humble peticon. of
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Mary Cowley
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Sheweth
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That your Peticoner is rated two shillings P month
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towards the releife of the poor of the said parish
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for this present year.
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That your Peticoner conceives herselfe aggreived
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by the said assessment For that she is rated 6d P
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month more then she paid the last year which is
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more in proporcon then divers of the Inhabitants
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of the said parish are now rated.
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P S Westley
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Your Peticoner therefore humbly prays
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your Worsps wilbe pleased to mittigate
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the said Rate in Such manner as unto yor:
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Worsps shall Seem meet.
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And yor: Petr: shall ever pray Etc.
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