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<p n="248">To the Right Worshipful His Maties Justices of the peace for the<lb></lb>
County of Middlesex, in their General Quarter Sessions of the<lb></lb>
Peace Assembled.</p>
<p n="249">The humble Petition & Appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50206_n249-1">Robert Taylor</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50206_geo73">St. James Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
County <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50206_occ67">Victualler</rs>
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<p n="250"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That by the several Rates made this present Year for,<lb></lb>
the relief of the Poor of the said Parish, and also for defraying<lb></lb>
the Charges, and Paying the Wages of the Seavengers, Rakers,<lb></lb>
and other Officers within the said Parish for Carrying away<lb></lb>
the Ashes, Dirt, Filth and Soil, Your Petitioner is Rated for<lb></lb>
a House which he Rents ther, of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50206_n250-1">George Short</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50206_occ68">Esqr</rs>
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. the Sumon<lb></lb>
of Forty Shillings above the real Rent which he pays for<lb></lb>
the same, And also Your Petitioner is Charged in the said<lb></lb>
Rates for another House which he rents of the Lady<lb></lb>
Wolstenholme the Summ of three Pounds over and above the<lb></lb>
real Rent which he Pays for the said House, And that having at<lb></lb>
the last Quarter Sessions Appealed against the said Rates for<lb></lb>
the Reasons aforesaid, which Appeal being referred to the<lb></lb>
Neighbouring Justices or any two of them to Report their<lb></lb>
Opinions, they have thought fitt nevertheless to reject the Sd.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50206_n250-2">Robert Taylor</rs>
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s Appeal for which Reasons he Conceives<lb></lb>
himself Aggrieved, and humbly Appeals against the said<lb></lb>
Rates unto this Court.</p>
<p n="251">And Prays that this Court will be pleas'd to<lb></lb>
Order that the Church Wardens & Overseers of the<lb></lb>
Poor & also the Seavengers of the said parish may<lb></lb>
Attend this Court on <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50206_date51">Thursday the Eleventh day<lb></lb>
of October this present</rs>
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Gent. Quarter Sessions of the peace<lb></lb>
to hear and Abide the determinacon of this Court<lb></lb>
touching the Premisses.</p>
<p n="252">And Your peticoner shall ever Pray Etc.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50206_n252-1">Robt Taylor</rs>
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