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till long after the time appointed by Act of parliamt
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for that purpose, And that on receiving the said
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Book the Petrs. finding that the usual Assessments-
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on the personal estates appertaining to the said-
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Division were omitted Requested, that the said-
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Rate Book might be justly settled in the customary
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manner, But were denyed any amendment or-
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alteration thereof whatsoever, And that the Petrs.
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are obliged to pay the Raker sixty pounds (as had
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for several yeares past been paid by their
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Predecessors) And have already paid one part-
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thereof (besides their charges
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or entring into-
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their said office) And the utmost their collections
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can amount to cannot exceed the sum of fifty
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pounds, And that by such omissions & imperfections
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in the said Rate Book on the personal estates
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aforesaid the Petrs. must be above ten pounds out
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of pocket more than usual in the like cases,-
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wherefore they apprehended themselves to be
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very much aggrieved, And prayed releif in-
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the premisses, And the matter of the sd. petition-
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not being determined at the said last sessions,
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But the same now comeing on to be heard & debated
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at this present General Quarter Sessions of the peace
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(which Session began & was holden for this County-
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on Monday in the week next after the Feast of the
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Epiphany (to witt) the fourteenth day of January
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now last and was from thence continued by
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several adjornments untill this
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twenty fifth-
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day of February instant
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) Upon hearing of-
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what was alledged by Councell for the Petr. and
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also by
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And upon examination into the truth of the said
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matter This Court
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