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<p n="1611">To the Worshipfull his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50879_occ437">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo774">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their present General Quarter Sessions of the<lb></lb>
peace for the said County assembled</p>
<p n="1612">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50879_n1612-1">Richard Howell</rs>
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<p n="1613"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That by Virtue of a Rate or Assessment made for the<lb></lb>
relief of the poor of the Hamlet of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo775">Hammersmith</rs>
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in the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo776">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and for other purposes mentioned in the<lb></lb>
several Acts of Parliament relating to the poor on or about the<lb></lb>
20th day of September last and allowed by Two of his Majestys<lb></lb>
Justices of the peace for the said County and afterwards duly publish<lb></lb>
Your petitioner was and is charged in and by such Rate or Assessments<lb></lb>
with a large and excessive Sum of Money for the Purposes<lb></lb>
aforesaid and much more than according to the real Value of<lb></lb>
his capable property within the said Hamlet he should be charged</p>
<p n="1614">That your Petitioner Objects to the said Rate or<lb></lb>
Assessment not only for the reason aforesaid but upon the grounds<lb></lb>
of the same being partial unfair unequal and unjust for<lb></lb>
that the Reverend Millwood the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50879_occ438">Curate</rs>
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of the said Hamlet of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo777">Hammersmith</rs>
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who keeps a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50879_occ439">School</rs>
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in the said Hamlet and<lb></lb>
occupies a House that used to be rated at Seventy pounds a year<lb></lb>
is left out and Omitted in the said Rate or Assessment</p>
<p n="1615">That <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50879_n1615-1">Stephen Bland</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50879_occ440">Sexton</rs>
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of the said Hamlet</p>
<p n="1616">(who)</p>
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