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To the Honble: & Worshipfull his Majesties Justices
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of the Peace for the County of Middssx: in their
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General Sessions Assembled
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The humble Peticon of
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Humphry Parsons
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Esqr
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Common
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Brewer
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at the
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Red Lion Brewhouse
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in the
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Parish of St Buttolph Aldgate
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in the said County
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Sheweth
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That by an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year of the
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Reign of our late most Gracious Sovereign Lady Queen Ann, Intit'led an Act for
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Granting to her Majesty Dutys upon Malt, Mum, Cyder & Perry for the Service of
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Year One Thousand Seven hundred & Thirteen Etca. It is amongst other things Enacted
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That from & after the
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Three & Twentieth Day of June 1713
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. And after the Duty
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by the said Act Imposed on Malt is paid or Secured to be paid by the Malster. If
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any Quantity of Malt shall Unfortunately happen to be Destroyed by Fire, By
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the Burning of the Malt house Granary or other place where the same shall
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be made or kept, It shall & may be Lawfull for the Proprietor or Proprietors
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of such Malt so Perishing to make Proofe thereof by Two Credible Witnesses on
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Oath And of his her or their having paid or given Security to pay the said
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Duty before the Justices of the Peace of the County Riding or Division where
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such Accident shall happen at the next General Quarter Sessions to be held
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for such County Riding or Division. (Who are thereby Impower'd to give Certi
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ficates under their Hands and Seals of such Loss) Upon Producing of which
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Certificate to the Officer Appointed to Collect the said Duty he shall be Obliged
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to repay or Allow to the said Proprietor or Proprietors so much of the said Duty
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as shall have been by him or them paid for the Quantity of Malt proved to have
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so Perished or been Destroyed as Aforesaid
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And further Sheweth, that a Fire happening in the Brewhouse Granarys &
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Warhouses of the said
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Humphry Parsons
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. About Eleven or Twelve a Clock at
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Night on the
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Twentieth of March last
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, There was Burnt & Destroy'd One Thousand
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Twenty Seven Quarters of Malt at Twenty Eight Shillings P Quarter Amounting
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to the Sume of One Thousand Four hundred & Eight Pounds Sixteen, Shillings
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that in the Value or Price of the said Malt is Included the Six Pence P Bushell
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paid for the Duty of it by Vertue of the said Act which Amounts to yr Sume of
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Two hundred & Five Pounds Eight Shillings
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That Yor. Petitioner being the Proprietor of the said Malt so Destroy'd
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humbly Conceives that he is Reliveable by the said Act of Parliament and Ought
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to be Repaid or Allowd the Duty paid for the same but cannot Intitle himself
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thereto unless this Court will be Pleas'd to Grant a Certificate as the said Act Directs.
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That Yor. Peticoner is Ready to make such Proofe of his Loss, as by the said
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Act is Required
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1029 Quarter is 8216 Bushells at 6d. P Bushlls is £205:8s:0
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And therefore humbly Prays that a Certificate thereof
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may be given to him According to Yr Direction of the sd Act
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And Yor Peticoner shall ever Pray Etca
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