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To Ye Rgt: Worspll: his Maties Justices of Ye Peace for ye County of Middx
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The humble Peticoner & Appeale of
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Thomas Hawkins
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of ye
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Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch
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Labourer
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Sheweth
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That Your Peticoner is rated Thirteen pence P: Quarter to gr rate
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made for ye releife of ye poor of ye sd Pish & by reason of his
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Low Condicon he is altogether unable pay ye Same or any
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thing to ye sd rate he haveinge nothinge but this hard Labour
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whereby to maintaine him Selfe & his aged wife what is very
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went & Infirm & that he is onely a
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Labourer to a Bricklayer
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& often out of business
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Your Peticoner therefore humbly prayes Your Worsps
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with be pleased to grant him an order of this Honable
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Court that he may be discharged from payinge to ye. Sd
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rate; Cor otherwise as to Your Worsps Shall Seem meet
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And your Peticoner Shall ever pray
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Tho: Hawkins
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Middx ss
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Pursuant to ye: Order of Pe General Quarter Sessions of ye Pe wth. in Written
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We whose names are here unto Subscribed Two of his Maties Justices of ye Peace in
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ye sd. Order named haveinge taken upon as ye examinacon of ye appeale &
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Comptt of ye Peticoner
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Thomas Hawkins
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above named; ye Churchwardens
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Over seers of ye poor & divers others of ye cheife Inhitants of ye
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Pish of St.
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Leonard Shoreditch
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in this County being present and upon heareing of all partys & duely
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Consideringe ye Peticoners Comptt as alsoe ye reasons given & allegatons made by
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ye. sd Churchwardens Over Seers of ye. poor & other Inhitants; We report our
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Oppinius to this Honable Court That ye. sd
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Thomas Howkins
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by reason of his
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poverty ought to be discharged from payinge to any Rate or Tax made for ye
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releife ye poor of ye sd Pish it appeareinge unto as that he is only a
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to Brick Layers
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, & often out of Busieness: & hath nothinge but his hard Labour
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when he Angett work to maintaine him selfe & his wife whoe is very Weak &
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Infirmes; Given under our hands this
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24: day of September ano Dom 1717
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Alex: Pitfeild
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