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<p n="386">To his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50381_occ113">Justices of the peace</rs>
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forth County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50381_geo227">Middx</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
their General Quarter Sessions assembled</p>
<p n="387">The humble petition and appeal of the Inhabitants of the<lb></lb>
parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50381_geo228">Chelsea</rs>
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in the County of Middx whose Names<lb></lb>
are hereunto Subscribed on behalf of themselves and<lb></lb>
divers other Inhabitants of the said parish</p>
<p n="388"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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<p n="389">That a Rate hath been lately made by the Churchwarden & Overseers of the<lb></lb>
Poor of the said Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50381_geo229">Chelsea</rs>
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upon the Inhabitants and Occupiers of Lands<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and Tenements in the same Parish for the Relief of the Poor thereof in this-<lb></lb>
present year 1747, which your Petitioners are advised is unequal oppressive<lb></lb>
and unjust, For that Several of the Inhabitants of the said Parish who are<lb></lb>
Persons of great Substance and Ability are under charged in the said Rate<lb></lb>
And that Several other Inhabitants of the Same Parish of less Circumstance<lb></lb>
are over assessed in the aforesaid Rate, and for that Several other<lb></lb>
Inhabitants of the said Parish of Considerable ability are not assessed but left out of the said Rates</p>
<p n="390">That your Petitioners are very much aggrieved by the aforesaid Rate-<lb></lb>
and humbly appeal to this Court against the same</p>
<p n="391">And pray that the said Rate may be quashed and<lb></lb>
vacated, and that the said Poor's Rate may be produced<lb></lb>
before this Court at such time as the Court shall appoint<lb></lb>
for the hearing and determining the Matter of the said Appeall.</p>
<p n="392">And your Petitioners Shall pray Etc.</p>
<p n="393"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50381_n393-1">Henry Meriton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50381_n393-2">Alexr. Small</rs>
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V Warner<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50381_n393-3">Claude Bennett</rs>
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<p n="394">Juane Ln<obscured></obscured>
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