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26th June 1780 - 8th December 1781

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To the Right honorable 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 Richard Bullock< no role >
the Parish of Saint Peter le Poor in the said City of
London Wine Merchant.

Sheweth


That Your Petitioner did in Hilary Term< no role > last
commence his Action in his Majesty< no role > 's Court of King's Bench
at Westminster against Thomas Wright< no role > , Evan Pugh< no role > and
Richard Clark< 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 Peter le Poor in the Ward of Broad 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
in part a certain Dwelling House and divers Goods and
Chattols 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 the Right honorable William Earl< no role > of Mansfield at
Sittings after the last Easter Term at the Guildhall in an
for the said City of London When a Verdict was found for
Petitioner or the Sum of one hundred and forty eighty poun [..]
thirteen Shillings and six pence being the Amount of the
Damages so by your Petitioner sustained o the Account a [..]
in the manner aforesaid besides Your Petitioners Costs of
Suit

That your Petitioner hath since the Trial of the said
Cause and since the said Verdict was found as aforesaid got




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