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To the Right Worppfull his Majties Justices of the Peace for the
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County of Middx in Quarter Sessions assembled.
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The humble peticon & Appeal of
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Thomas Barnjum
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Walter Burton
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Robert Chambers
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William
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John Lane
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Edward Morris
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Daniel Harrison
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Thomas Lane
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Samuel Pullin
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Walter
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Sibburn
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Landholders
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& Antient Inhabitants of the Parish of
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in the said County of Middx
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on behalfe of themselves and many other Inhabitants that rent & own Lands in the said Parish whose
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names are hereto subscribed.
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Sheweth
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That
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Fletcher Powell
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William Carter
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Charles Digard
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William Gray
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present Overseers of the poor together
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with some other Inhabitants Housholders in the said parish have privately & clandestinely without the Consent of the
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Churchwardens or the antient & discreet Inhabitants of the said parish In ease of themselves and to burthen & oppress
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your Peticonrs & others have made a halfe years Rate for the Reliefe of the Poor upon Occupiers of Lands and
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house in the said parish comencing from Lady day last according to a Pound Rate After the rate of 3d. P pound upon
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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
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happen to the Occupiers of Lands in the said parish which is an unusual way and contrary to the method & custom there
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used & practiced is very unequal & oppressive to your Peticonr & other Occupiers of Land in the said parish as yor. Petr.
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humbly concieve And that several houses & Lands which ought to be assessed are wholly omitted out of the said Rate and
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many of the said Inhabitants are under rated in the said Rate in respect to their Abilities the Rich thereby excused and
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the Poor oppressed and many persons are rated in the said Rate for more Rent than they actually pay And that most of
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the houses in the said parish consist in small Rents & very few £15. P Ann And that many persons inhabiting in
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houses of 30. & 40 still P Ann are now rated & assessed which were never rated before by reason of their poverty & to
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prevent their gaining Settlements & becoming chargeable to the said parish. That many Inhabitants of great Substance live
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in houses of small Rents are charged only according to the Rent they pay & not according to their Ability And divers of the
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Appellts who have but small Substance & large families are forced to hold great Farms for the maintenance & Support of
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themselves & families & do often meet with great losses and are at great expence labour & pains in raising of their Rents
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& are by this Rate much over rated & oppressed That the former & antient method used in making a Discretionary Rate upon
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the Inhabitants of the said parish is much more equal than a pound rate.
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Yor. Petr. therefore finding themselves aggrieved by the said Rate humbly
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appeal against the same & pray that this Court will appoint a day for
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hearing the said Appeal And that the said Rate for the reasons aforesaid
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a vacated and that a more equal & just Rate may be made
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