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To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the
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City of London Mr. Recorder and the rest of the
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Worshipfull His Majesty's Justices of the
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Peace for the said City in their General Quarter
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Session of the Peace Assembled
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fourteenth day of March in the sixth year
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of his present Majesty's Reign
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your Petitioner by the Name
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was Convicted Before
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then and still
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Lord Mayor
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of the
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City of London
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and then and Still one of his Majesty's Justices of the
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for buying at
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Wapping Old
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the Weekly Bills of Mortality Three
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Thousand One hundred Salt Fish brought there to
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be sold on the first day of March 1766 and afterwards
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dividing the same in Shares amongst Sundry
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Fishmongers And is Adjudged to pay and forfeit
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the Sum of Twenty Pounds
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Your Petitioners conceiving himself Aggrieved
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thereby Doth humbly Appeal against the said
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Conviction as being illegal and Prays such
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Relief in the Premises as to your Lordship and
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Worships shall seem meet.
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for Appellt.
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