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of some few of the said Inhabitants wherein Divine
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Worship hath ever since been performed, and an
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annual rent is now paid by the Petitioners for the
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same, And that great part of the said Church-
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together with the Tower thereof about five yeares
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since fell down, and nothing now remains standing
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but a small part of one of the walls thereof soe-
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that the said Church and Tower must unavoidably
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be rebuilt, And that the said
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parish of Ealing
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being
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very extensive and the Inhabitants thereof
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being
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very Numerous, there being about seven
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hundred Familys therein, and the Town of
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(which is cheifly inhabited by poor
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Watermen Fishermen and Day Labourers) being
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part of and lying within the said parish the
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petitioners are burthened with a very Numerous
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poor, for whose maintenance the annual
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Assessments have in some yeares amounted to three
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shillings in the pound, And that the Petitioners
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have lately erected a
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for which they
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are indebted a considerable sum, so that the
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petitioners are not able by any contributions make
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among themselves to raise a sum sufficient to
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rebuild the said Church, although they have used
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their utmost endeavours so to do by getting a
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subscription amongst themselves for that purpose,
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but such subscription in case the whole money
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subscribed should be paid which is very uncertain
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will amount to no more than the sum of five hundred
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and twenty pounds or thereabouts, And that the Petitioners
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