To the Right Honourable the Lord
Mayor and the rest of his Majesty< no role >
's
Justices of the Peace
for the City of
London at their General Quarter
Sessions of the Peace for the said City
Assembled
The Humble Petition of James Malo< no role > This name instance is in set 4067.
of the
Parish of Saint Stephen Coleman< no role >
Street in the said City of
Londn Weaver
Sheweth
That your Petitioner did in Michaelmas Term last
Commence his Action in
his Majesty< no role >
's Court of Kings Bench at Westminster
against
Thomas Wright< no role >
Evan Pugh< no role >
and
Robert Pukham< no role >
Esquires
three of
the Inhabitants of the said City of London
for Recovery of the Damages
sustained by Your Petitioner by reason and on Account of the unlawful
riotous and tumultuous Assembly of divers Persons to the Number of
twelve and more at the said City of London
in the Parish of Saint
Stephen Coleman
Street in the Ward of Coleman Street
on the seventh day
of June in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty
and then and there unlawfully feloniously and with force demolishing
as well wholly as in part a Dwelling House and divers Outhouses and
other Buildings and Premises thereunto adjoining and divers goods
and Chattels therein kept and deposited belonging to your Petitioner in
the said City of London
That your Petitioner having declared in such Action
the Defendants Pleaded thereto and the Cause being thereupon at Issue
the same came on to be and was Tried before Mr. Justice Buller
and a special Jury at the sittings after the last Hilary Term< no role >
at the
Guildhall
in and for the said City of London
when after a long Tryal
a Verdict was found for your Petitioner for the Sum of Three tho [..]
six hundred and sixty seven pounds and six pence being the
Amount of the Damages so by Your Petitioner sustained on the
Account and in the manner aforesaid besides your Petitioner's Costs
of Suit
That your Petitioner hath since the Tryal of the said
Cause and since the said Verdict was found as aforesaid got his Costs