The
case
of
the
Borough
of
Southwark
,
as
it
stands
with
the
County
of
Surrey
,
in
reference
to
Assesments
for
the
Army
and
Ireland
.
THE
Borough
of
Southwark
properly
taken
(
and
as
it
is
understood
in
the
present
assesments
for
the
Army
and
Ireland
)
is
not
much
more
then
half
of
that
which
is
commonly
called
the
Borough
of
Southwark
,
joyned
together
by
one
continued
frame
of
buildings
:
For
in
the
larger
and
common
name
(
and
as
it
is
,
and
hath
usually
been
joyned
in
the
businesse
of
Militia
)
it
containeth
8
Parishes
,
viz.
Olaves
,
Saviours
,
Thomas
,
Georges
,
Magdalen
,
Bermondsey
,
Mary
Newington
,
Rotherhith
and
Lambeth
.
Whereas
but
the
3
Parishes
of
Olaves
,
Georges
,
Thomas
,
and
a
part
of
Saviours
,
are
strictly
and
properly
the
Borough
of
Southwark
,
and
so
are
charged
in
the
Assesments
of
the
County
at
almost
one
fourth
part
of
the
whole
sum
laid
by
the
Parliament
on
the
County
of
Surrey
.
The
other
fore
mentioned
Parishes
and
places
,
which
are
almost
equall
in
estate
and
value
with
the
said
Borough
,
are
joyned
in
these
assesments
with
the
residue
of
the
said
County
of
Surrey
.
The
unreasonablenesse
of
which
proportion
as
it
is
evidenced
by
divers
ancient
presidents
,
in
most
of
which
the
Borugh
of
Southwark
was
charged
but
at
an
eighth
part
,
sometimes
but
one
tenth
part
with
the
County
;
so
it
was
never
so
charged
as
now
it
is
by
the
County
,
and
in
ordinary
Military
charges
two
of
the
other
foure
Parishes
were
joyned
antiently
with
the
Borough
.
That
the
said
Borough
charged
themselves
with
one
eighth
part
of
the
totall
charged
on
the
whole
County
(
which
as
it
is
the
most
that
can
be
evinced
by
ancient
presidents
)
so
it
is
apparently
much
more
then
the
proportion
charged
on
the
parish
of
Bermondsey
,
and
those
other
forementioned
,
which
though
adjacent
to
the
Borough
,
are
assessed
with
the
County
,
by
which
a
man
resident
on
the
one
side
of
a
street
in
the
Borough
paieth
as
much
as
his
neighbour
of
the
like
estate
on
the
other
side
of
the
street
charged
with
the
County
as
aforesaid
,
and
this
so
notoriously
known
that
it
cannot
be
denied
by
the
Gentlemen
of
the
County
,
so
it
is
no
small
discouragement
to
the
Inhabitants
of
the
Borough
of
Southwark
,
who
have
volanturily
and
constantly
adventured
all
they
have
or
are
in
the
service
of
the
publique
,
nay
beyond
the
said
County
,
and
would
be
five
pence
for
a
penny
,
if
they
should
be
charged
as
the
said
County
have
propounded
,
in
the
proportion
set
by
them
in
the
said
Borough
of
Southwark
.
That
there
is
in
the
County
of
Surrey
about
140
Parishes
,
in
which
are
many
Towns
considerable
,
Tradesmen
,
and
much
land
:
Whereas
in
the
said
Borough
is
but
3
Parishes
,
and
a
part
of
a
Parish
:
In
which
,
though
there
may
be
5000
families
,
yet
there
is
not
one
thousand
of
them
capable
of
paying
any
assesments
;
the
residue
of
them
being
very
poor
Tradesmen
,
or
such
as
either
receive
alms
,
or
beg
their
bread
;
the
long
continuance
of
these
distractions
much
more
pinching
poor
Tradesmen
,
then
any
other
sort
of
people
whatsoever
.
That
of
the
foresaid
three
Parishes
,
and
a
part
of
a
fourth
,
one
of
the
said
Parishes
is
wholly
Hospitall
rents
,
and
affording
very
little
for
personall
estates
towards
the
summe
charged
on
the
said
Borough
;
so
there
remains
but
two
Parishes
,
and
a
part
of
a
Parish
,
to
bear
the
assesment
;
and
in
those
also
there
is
much
Hospitall
and
Colledge
rents
,
exempted
by
a
particular
Ordinance
of
Parliament
.
That
yet
the
said
three
poor
Parishes
,
and
a
part
of
a
fourth
,
have
by
the
unequall
carriage
in
the
subdivision
of
assesments
,
been
constrained
to
pay
twice
as
much
as
any
the
richest
Cities
in
England
,
London
and
Norwich
only
excepted
;
as
may
easily
appear
by
comparing
what
the
said
Cities
are
charged
withall
particularly
in
the
Ordinances
of
Parliament
,
with
what
the
Borough
of
Southwark
have
do
pay
by
being
joyned
in
one
totall
with
the
County
of
Surrey
.
Lastly
,
That
much
of
this
mischief
and
inconvenience
ariseth
by
charging
the
said
Borough
of
Southwark
in
one
totall
summe
with
the
County
of
Surrey
,
there
being
above
eight
Commissioners
dwelling
in
the
County
,
for
one
resident
in
the
Borough
,
of
Southwark
,
and
on
the
subdivision
of
the
totall
charge
,
the
particulars
being
carried
by
most
voices
;
it
was
easie
to
set
the
Borough
at
what
they
pleased
,
notwithstanding
all
protests
and
remonstrances
to
the
contrary
.