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<NAME>Paul Schaffner</NAME>
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<HEAD>The An&s;wer on behalf of the City of <HI>London,</HI> to the Rea&s;ons of the County of <HI>Middle&s;ex.</HI></HEAD>
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<ITEM N="1">1. THe Hou&s;es in <HI>London</HI> are chiefly inhabited by Retailers and Handicrafts men, who are much impoveri&s;hed in their Per|&s;onal E&s;tates both by the Fire, and the withdrawing of the Trade into the Out-Pari&s;hes in <HI>Middle&s;ex.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM N="2">2. The Hou&s;es in <HI>London,</HI> built according to Act of Parliament, are many of them Empty, and many filled with mean Per&s;ons, of mean and incon&s;i|derable Callings: And that part of the City, that was not con&s;umed by the Fire, is likewi&s;e filled with very many nece&s;&s;itous People. And &s;uch other poor that are withdrawn out of the City, that received Pen&s;ions before the Fire, do &s;till receive tho&s;e Pen&s;ions from the re&s;pective Pari&s;hes unto which they did then belong.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="3">3. The Hou&s;es Ea&s;tward of the City are &s;ince the Fire greatly increa&s;ed, and better inhabited by Merchants, and very many other con&s;iderable Traders, who have now left the City.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="4">4. The Hou&s;es We&s;tward of the City are not only inhabited by Lords and Gentlemen of Quality, who (be&s;ides their Hou&s;es) are a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, and do pay &s;ome part of the Tax, as by the Books may appear, but al&s;o by Eminent Trade&s;|men in <HI>Covent-Garden,</HI> the <HI>Strand, High Holborn,</HI> &amp;c. And the number of the Poor maintained by the City being very great, the Annual Charge of them to the City amounteth unto Fifteen Thou&s;and Three Hundred Forty One pounds Six &s;hillings at the lea&s;t.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="5">5. The City de&s;ires not Ea&s;e from the Land-part of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> but only from tho&s;e Pari&s;hes that are within the Bills of Mortality within the &s;aid County.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="6">6. Tho&s;e Citizens that have left the City are an Advantage to the Pari&s;hes within the County in re&s;pect of their Trades, Families, and paying of Taxes. And tho&s;e that live within the City, and have any Stock in the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Com|pany, or other Companies, are rated within the City for their Per&s;onal E&s;tates, but the greate&s;t part of the Stocks of tho&s;e Companies belonging to &s;everal, inhabiting within the County of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> and other parts without the City, cannot be rated within the City.</ITEM>
<ITEM N="7">7. The County of <HI>Middle&s;ex</HI> was not charged upon the Account of any Office in <HI>London:</HI> But &s;everal Officers, who keep their Offices in <HI>London,</HI> were taxed in <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> and paid there, to the great Advantage of that County.</ITEM>
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