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<p n="153"> <obscured></obscured>
Worsppll his Maties Justices of the Peace for the County of<lb></lb>
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ddx</p>
<p n="154">The humble Peticon and Appeal<obscured></obscured>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50148_n154-1">John Ker</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50148_occ48">m Dr</rs>
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: of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50148_geo75">St. James<lb></lb>
Clerkenwell</rs>
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in this County.</p>
<p n="155"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth,</note>
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That your Petitr: is possessed of the Remains of the Abb<del>e</del>
y of<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
called of late<obscured></obscured>
Chappell<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
ending Michaelmas 1715. In all which time your Petitr. paid all<lb></lb>
Collectors their severall Demands tho' taxed much above his<lb></lb>
proportion, as will appear by other Bookes, But inspeciall by<lb></lb>
that of the Lane Tax: Wherein your Petitioner is Sessed & ever<lb></lb>
before the Reduction paid & £12 Between, besides Deficiency: yet your<lb></lb>
Petitr: never Complained, till this yeare after having paid<lb></lb>
Thirty Shillings to the Window Lights and upon an exact<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
It was Reduced to Twenty Shillings. Your Petitr<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
int is now, against the Collectow of the Scavenger<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
ns Lead of, first Eight Shillings, Least year, ax<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
pay Sixteen Shillings, and this Year Demand.<lb></lb>
Twenty Shillings</p>
<p n="156">your Petitr. humbly prays. If may be Considered his Dwelling<lb></lb>
house adjoyning the said Chappell is empty, one of two other<lb></lb>
Tenements untenanted and these with the Rent of the said<lb></lb>
Chappell never Cleared the Parish Bookes.</p>
<p n="157">Your Petitr: therefore humbly prays<lb></lb>
such Relief of in the premises As to this<lb></lb>
Courts shall be thought meete.</p>
<p n="158">And yor Petitr. shall. ever pray Etc.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50148_n158-1">John: Ker</rs>
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