To the Right Honble Sir Samuel Pennant< no role > Knight Lord Mayor of the City of
London and the rest of his Majties Justices of the peace in their General Quarter Session
of the peace for the said City Assembled

The Humble petition of Robert Farmer< no role >

Sheweth

That your petitioner is Owner of several Hackney
Coaches & daily sends out the same to hire. That Mathew Smith< no role > a servant of
your petitioner on the 23d. of January last being out with one of the said Hackney
Coaches was called by one John Appleyard< no role > of St. John Street in the County of
Middx Oylman & was hired by the said John Appleyard< no role > and by him employed
from 25 Minutes after 6 in the afternoon until thirty five Minutes after seven following
for which hiring the said Robert Farmer< no role > is intituled to the sum of two Shillings
from the said John Appleyard< no role >

That the said John Appleyard< no role > for refusing to pay the
same was by virtue of a Warrant under the Hand & Seal of Henry Fielding< no role > Esqr.
taken before him and upon his continuing to refuse to pay the same was (as the first
refusal was made in the City of London ) bound over by the said Mr. Fielding in a
Recognizance to appear before this Court at this quarter Session of the peace
pursuant to the Act of parliament made in that behalf in the 9th. year of the
Reign of her late Majesty Queen Ann.

Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays
that your Lordship and Worships will upon hearing
this Complaint Order such Satisfaction to be made by
the said John Appleyard< no role > to your petitioner as in your
Judgments shall seem meet And that upon Now
payment thereof your Lordship and Worships will
be & leased to order the said Recognizance to be estreated into
his Majesties Court of Exchequest

And your petitioner will over pray Etc

Robert Farmen< no role >