To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor< no role > and the
rest of his Majesty< no role > 's Justices of the City of London at
their general Quarter Session of the Peace for the said City assembled

The humble Petition of Thomas Langdale< no role > of Holborn in the said
City of London Distiller

Sheweth

That your Petitioner in Michaelmas Sum 1780 commenced his Action in the
Court of [..] Bench at Westminister against Brackley Kennett< no role > Thomas Wright< no role > and
Evan Pugh< no role > Esquires there of the Inhabitants of the said City for the recovery of the
damages sustained by your Petitioner on the 7th. of June 1780 by the Rioters pulling
sown and demolishing his swelling Houses and other Buildings and his Household Goods
and Furniture therein belonging to your Petitioner in the said City of London

That such Action came on to be and was tried before Mr Justice Buller and a special
Jury as the Sellings after Hilary Term< no role > 1781 as the Guildhall in and for the said City of
London when a Verdict was found for your Petitioner for the Sum of £18,729.0.10 being
the Amount of the Damages so by your Petitioner sustained on the Account aforesaid
And that your Petitioner soon afterwards got his Costs of the said Action and Suit taxed
and settled by the proper Office of the said Court of Kings Bench and the same were
taxed as the Sum of £ 244.19.2

That your Petitioner on the 21st July 1781 obtained and signed final Judgment in
the said Action against the said Defendants for his said Damages and Costs makings
together the Sum of £19,974 which said Judgment now remain entred up of Record
in the said Court

That the then Lord Mayor< no role > and others his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the
said City in Sessions Assembled did soon after (by force and virtue of the several Acts
of Parlimant enabling them in that behalf) only make their Order or Orders of Session
and issue the [..] Precept and Precepts for raising and levying and collecting on the
Inhabitants at large of the said City of London the said Sum of £18,974 to be
paid to your Petr. for his said Damages and Costs according to the directions of the
said several Acts of Parliament and that Rates being made on the Inhabitants the
Moner thereby assessed and collected were by the Collectons paid into the Chamber of the City
of London but such Rates and Collections turnes out insufficient for paying your Petitioner the
whole of his said Damages and Costs for that the Monies raised and collected for your
Petitioners and paid into the said Chamber of London did but amount to the Sum of
£18,650.16.8 whereby the same was deficient for discharging your said Petitioners