To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the
City of London Mr. Recorder and the rest of the
Worshipfull His Majesty's Justices of the
Peace for the said City in their General Quarter
Session of the Peace Assembled

The humble Petition of Edward Peirce< no role >

Sheweth

That on the fourteenth day of March in the sixth year
of his present Majesty's Reign your Petitioner by the Name
of Edward Price< no role > was Convicted Before George Nelson< no role >
Esquire then and still Lord Mayor of the City of London
and then and Still one of his Majesty's Justices of the
Peace for the City of London for buying at Wapping Old
Stairs within the Weekly Bills of Mortality Three
Thousand One hundred Salt Fish brought there to
be sold on the first day of March 1766 and afterwards
dividing the same in Shares amongst Sundry
Fishmongers And is Adjudged to pay and forfeit
the Sum of Twenty Pounds

Your Petitioners conceiving himself Aggrieved
thereby Doth humbly Appeal against the said
Conviction as being illegal and Prays such
Relief in the Premises as to your Lordship and
Worships shall seem meet.

Fras. Salt< no role > Attry for Appellt.