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<p n="177">To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the<lb></lb>
City of London Mr. Recorder and the rest of the<lb></lb>
Worshipfull His Majesty's Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace for the said City in their General Quarter<lb></lb>
Session of the Peace Assembled</p>
<p n="178">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n178-1">Edward Peirce</rs>
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<p n="179"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That on the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15077_date51">fourteenth day of March in the sixth year<lb></lb>
of his present Majesty's Reign</rs>
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your Petitioner by the Name<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n179-1">Edward Price</rs>
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was Convicted Before <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n179-2">George Nelson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15077_occ125">Esquire</rs>
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then and still <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15077_occ126">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15077_geo126">City of London</rs>
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and then and Still one of his Majesty's Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15077_geo127">City of London</rs>
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for buying at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15077_geo128">Wapping Old<lb></lb>
Stairs within</rs>
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the Weekly Bills of Mortality Three<lb></lb>
Thousand One hundred Salt Fish brought there to<lb></lb>
be sold on the first day of March 1766 and afterwards<lb></lb>
dividing the same in Shares amongst Sundry<lb></lb>
Fishmongers And is Adjudged to pay and forfeit<lb></lb>
the Sum of Twenty Pounds</p>
<p n="180">Your Petitioners conceiving himself Aggrieved<lb></lb>
thereby Doth humbly Appeal against the said<lb></lb>
Conviction as being illegal and Prays such<lb></lb>
Relief in the Premises as to your Lordship and<lb></lb>
Worships shall seem meet.</p>
<p n="181"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15077_n181-1">Fras. Salt</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15077_occ127">Attry</rs>
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for Appellt.</p>
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