The case of the Borough of Southwark, as it stands with the County of Surrey, in reference to assessments for the Army and Ireland.  
THE Borough of Southwark properly taken( and as it is understood in the present assessments for the Army and Ireland) is not much more then half of that which is commonly called the Borough of Southwark, joined together by one continued frame of buildings: For in the larger and common name( and as it is, and hath usually been joined in the business 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 assessments 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 equal in estate and value with the said Borough, are joined in these assessments with the residue of the said County of Surrey.  
The unreasonableness 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 four Parishes were joined anciently with the Borough.  
That the said Borough charged themselves with one eighth part of the total 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 payeth 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 public, 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, tradesman, 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 assessments; the residue of them being very poor tradesman, or such as either receive alms, or beg their bread; the long continuance of these distractions much more pinching poor tradesman, 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 hospital rents, and affording very little for personal estates towards the sum charged on the said Borough; so there remains but two Parishes, and a part of a Parish, to bear the assessment; and in those also there is much hospital and college rents, exempted by a particular Ordinance of Parliament.  
That yet the said three poor Parishes, and a part of a fourth, have by the unequal carriage in the subdivision of assessments, 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 joined in one total with the County of Surrey.  
Lastly, That much of this mischief and inconvenience ariseth by charging the said Borough of Southwark in one total sum 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 total charge, the particulars being carried by most voices; it was easy to set the Borough at what they pleased, notwithstanding all protests and remonstrances to the contrary.