London to wit

Be it remembered that at the General Quarter Session of the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King holden for the
City of London at the Guildhall within the said City on Monday the twenty seventh Day of April in the twelfth Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain and soforth Before William Nash< no role > Esquire Mayor of
The City of London James Eyne< no role > Esquire Recorder of the said City Sir James Esdaile< no role > Knight Samuel Plumbe< no role >
Esquire Alderman of the said Cityand others their Follows Justice of our said Lord the King assigned
to keep the peace of our said Lord the King within the said City and also to hear and determine divers Felonies Shorp loses and other
Misdeeds committed within the said City William Payne< no role > of the Parish of Saint Dunstan in the West in the Ward of Farringdon
without in London Carpenter comes in his proper Person and as well for our said Lord the King as for himself gives the
Court here to understand and be informed That Peter Mellish< no role > the Younger late of the Parish of Saint George
in the County of Middlesex Butcher after the First day of May next after the making of a certain Act of Parliament
made at Westminster in the County of Middlesex in the fifth and sixth Years of the Reign of Edward the Saith late King of
England and soforth entitled an Act against Regrators Forestallers and Ingrossers that is to say on the Twenty fifth Day of
October in the twelfth Year of the Reign of our said present sovereign Lord the King at London aforesaid that is to say at the
Parish of Saint Sepulchre in the Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid did but of one Matthew committ
Nine Oxen and the said Peter Mellish< no role > did not keep and feed the same Nine Oxen by the space of Five Weeks in
his own house or Houses Ground Ferm Ground or in such Ground or Grounds where he had the Herbage on common of
pasture by Grant or Prosecution or any of them but the said Peter Mellish< no role > afterwards within the same aforesaid
to wit on the said Twenty Fifth Day of October in the Twelfth Year aforesaid at London aforesaid that is to say at
the said Parish of Saint Sepulchre in the said Ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid did tell the said
Nine Oxen again alive against the form of the Statute aforesaid and that the said Nine Oxen at the time of buying
and of the Sale thereof were of the Value of One Hundred Pounds of Lawfull Money of Great Britain is wit at London aforesaid
that is to say at the Parish aforesaid in the Ward aforesaid by which the said Peter Mellish< no role > had for failed the Sum of
Two hundred Pounds of like lawful Money being the double Value of the said Nine Oxen so by the said Peter Mellish< no role > in a
Manner and form aforesaid against the form of the Statute aforesaid bought and sold again alive One Molety thereof to be
to our said Lord the King and the other Moicty thereof to him or them she will see for the same in any of the Kings
Courts of Record by Bill Plaint Action of Debt or Information Whereupon the said William Payne< no role > This name instance is in set 2582. who sues as well for
our said Lord the King as for himself prays the Advice of the Court in the premisses and due Process of Lane to be
issued against the said Peter Mellish< no role > in his behalf And that the said William Payne< no role > who as well and so forth
may have a Moicty of the said Forfeiture according to the form of the Statute and so forth.

This Information is Delivered here in Court of Record
on Monday the twenty seventh Day of April One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Seventy two by the proper Hands of the
above named William Payne< no role > This name instance is in set 2582. who as well etc. to be Determined etc.}

Wm. Payne< no role >

William Pane< no role > named in the above written Information
Maketh Oath that the Offence charged in the same Information
was committed within the Space of Twelve Months last past
and within the City of London and not elsewhere

Sworn at Guildhall London
that Twenty Seventh Day of
April 1772 .}

Wm. Payne< no role >

By the Court