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To the Worshipful His Majesty's
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Justices of the
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General Session of the Peace for the said County
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Assembled.
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The Humble Petition and Appeal of
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Joseph Brown
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an Inhabitant of de
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That by a certain Rate or Assessment made for the relief of
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the Poor of the said
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on the
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Twenty ninth day of October One Thousand Seven hundred and Ninety five
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Your Petitioner and many other Inhabitants and Occupiers of Houses and Lands
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in the said Parish are in and by the said Rate or Assessment charged or assessed
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several Sums of Money for the Relief of the Poor of the said Parish
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That your Petitioner is charged towards the said Relief at the
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Sum of forty Eight Pounds as and for the Yearly Rent of a certain Messuage or an
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Tenement and Premises in his occupation situate in
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Hounslow
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whereas your Petitioner apprehends he ought not to be charged
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in the said Rate or Assessment at any greater Rent than the Yearly Rent of
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Fourteen Pounds for and in respect of the said Messuage or Tenement and
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Premises being the Rent which your Petitioner now pays and has paid
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from Lady Day One Thousand Seven hunderd and Nienty two for the said
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Messuage or Tenament and Premises by Virtue of an Indenture of Lease
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That Your Petitioner is charged in and by the said Rate or
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Assessment much more than several other Persons inhabiting in the said
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Parish in proportion to the yearly Rent of the Messuages or Tenament
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and Premises they respectively occupy in the said Parish are charged in
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is charged much more than
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John Innwood
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Bristow
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