To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor< no role > and the
Worshipfull the Aldermen his Majestys Justices of
the Peace for the City of London assembled at the
General Quarter Session of the Peace held in and
for the said City

The Humble Petition of William
Johnson of the Excise office in the said City
of London Gentleman

Sheweth

That your Petitioner did in Easter Term 1781
commence his Action in his Majestys Court of Kings Bench at
Westminster against Thomas Wright< no role > Esquire and Evan Pugh< no role >
Esquire two of the Inhabitants of the said City of London [..]
the Recovery of the Damages [..] And by your Petitioner by
reason and on Account of the Unlawful Pistons and
Tumultuous assembly of Divers persons to the number of
Twelve and more at the said City of London in the Parish of
Saint Andrew Holborn in the Ward of Farrington without
on the 7th. day of June in the year of our Lord 1780 and then
and there unlawfully Feloniously and with force wholly
demolishing a certain dwelling House and divers goods and
Chattels therein Kept and deposited belonging to your Petitioner
Situate in Bernards Inn in the said Parish and Ward aforesaid
in the City of London aforesaid

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
Honourable The Earl of Mansfield Chief Justice of the said
Court the sittings after Hilary Term< no role > last at the Guildhall in
and for the said City of London when a verdict was found
for your Petitioner for the sum of £56:4s:5d being the
Amount