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<p n="244">To the Right Worppfull his Majties Justices of the Peace for the<lb></lb>
County of Middx in Quarter Sessions assembled.</p>
<p n="245">The humble peticon & Appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50146_n245-1">Thomas Barnjum</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n245-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50146_n245-9">Walter Burton</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n245-9" type="surname" value="BURTON"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n245-9" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50146_n245-2">Robert Chambers</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n245-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50146_n245-3">William<lb></lb>
Nicholson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50146_n245-4">John Lane</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n245-4" type="surname" value="LANE"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n245-4" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50146_n245-5">Edward Morris</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n245-5" type="surname" value="MORRIS"></interp>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50146_n245-6">Daniel Harrison</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n245-6" type="surname" value="HARRISON"></interp>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50146_n245-7">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50146_n245-8">Samuel Pullin</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50146_n245-10">Walter<lb></lb>
Sibburn</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50146_occ23">Landholders</rs>
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& Antient Inhabitants of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50146_geo114"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50146_geo115">St. Mary Islington</rs>
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in the said County of Middx</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on behalfe of themselves and many other Inhabitants that rent & own Lands in the said Parish whose<lb></lb>
names are hereto subscribed.</p>
<p n="246"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50146_n246-1">Fletcher Powell</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n246-1" type="surname" value="POWELL"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n246-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50146_n246-2">William Carter</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n246-2" type="given" value="WILLIAM"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n246-2" type="surname" value="CARTER"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n246-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50146_n246-4">Charles Digard</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n246-4" type="given" value="CHARLES"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n246-4" type="surname" value="DIGARD"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n246-4" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50146_n246-3">William Gray</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n246-3" type="given" value="WILLIAM"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n246-3" type="surname" value="GRAY"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50146_n246-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
present Overseers of the poor together<lb></lb>
with some other Inhabitants Housholders in the said parish have privately & clandestinely without the Consent of the<lb></lb>
Churchwardens or the antient & discreet Inhabitants of the said parish In ease of themselves and to burthen & oppress<lb></lb>
your Peticonrs & others have made a halfe years Rate for the Reliefe of the Poor upon Occupiers of Lands and<lb></lb>
house in the said parish comencing from Lady day last according to a Pound Rate After the rate of 3d. P pound upon<lb></lb>
the Rents of the houses & lands in the said parish without any regard to the Ability of the person or to the great losses that often<lb></lb>
happen to the Occupiers of Lands in the said parish which is an unusual way and contrary to the method & custom there<lb></lb>
used & practiced is very unequal & oppressive to your Peticonr & other Occupiers of Land in the said parish as yor. Petr.<lb></lb>
humbly concieve And that several houses & Lands which ought to be assessed are wholly omitted out of the said Rate and<lb></lb>
many of the said Inhabitants are under rated in the said Rate in respect to their Abilities the Rich thereby excused and<lb></lb>
the Poor oppressed and many persons are rated in the said Rate for more Rent than they actually pay And that most of<lb></lb>
the houses in the said parish consist in small Rents & very few £15. P Ann And that many persons inhabiting in<lb></lb>
houses of 30. & 40 still P Ann are now rated & assessed which were never rated before by reason of their poverty & to<lb></lb>
prevent their gaining Settlements & becoming chargeable to the said parish. That many Inhabitants of great Substance live<lb></lb>
in houses of small Rents are charged only according to the Rent they pay & not according to their Ability And divers of the<lb></lb>
Appellts who have but small Substance & large families are forced to hold great Farms for the maintenance & Support of<lb></lb>
themselves & families & do often meet with great losses and are at great expence labour & pains in raising of their Rents<lb></lb>
& are by this Rate much over rated & oppressed That the former & antient method used in making a Discretionary Rate upon<lb></lb>
the Inhabitants of the said parish is much more equal than a pound rate.</p>
<p n="247">Yor. Petr. therefore finding themselves aggrieved by the said Rate humbly<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
appeal against the same & pray that this Court will appoint a day for<lb></lb>
hearing the said Appeal And that the said Rate for the reasons aforesaid<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
a vacated and that a more equal & just Rate may be made</p>
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