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To the Worshipful his Majesties
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That your Petitioner by virtue of a Summons from
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his Majesties
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Esquire and was (as your Petitioner is informed and believes) or
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the twenty third day of February last convicted by him of having a Cart traveling on the
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and being drawn with three horses contrary to the Statute in that behalf by which conviction
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your Petitioner was adjudged to have forfeited one of the horses with his Geers and
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Accountrements so drawing the said Cart.
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That your Petitioner humbly conceiving himself aggrived by such conviction
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doth Appeal therefrom to your Worships in Sessions aforesaid.
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Your Petitioner and Apellant therefore humbly
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Prays your Worships to appoint a day in this present
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And your Petitioner Will ever Prayes.
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