To the Right Honourable Thomas Harley< no role > Esquire
Lord Mayor of the CIty of London and the rest of His
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said City in
their General Quarter Session of the Peace
Assembled.

The Humble Petition and Appeal of Thomas Edgley< no role >
of Thames Street London Fishmonger .

Sheweth

That on the Twenty eight day of June in the Eighth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third Your Petitioner was Convicted
before John Shakespear< no role > Esquire one of his Majestys Justices of the
Peace for the City of London for exposing to Sale at the first hand at the
Fish Market at Billingsgate in the Parish of Saint Mary Hill in the
said City (being a fish Market within the Weekly Bills of Mortality)
and during the Market Hours of such Fish Market four hundred and
fifty Turbots before he had placed up or caused to be placed up in some
Conspicuous manner on or over the place at which he Offered or exposed
the said Turbots to Sale a true Account of such said Turbots and
was adjudged to pay and forfeit the Sum of ten pounds.

Your Petitioner conceiving himself
Aggrieved thereby doth humbly appeal
against the said Conviction as being Illegal
and prays Relief the Premises in such
manner as to your Worships it shall seem
most meet.

And your Petitioner will ever Pray Etc.

Thos. Edgley< no role >