By adjournment Thursday 19 May 1768.

A Petition of several Persons whose names are thereunto subscribed
Inhabitants of the Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell and other places adjacent
in this County being presented to this Court Settingforth That on
Saturday the Twentieth, and Wednesday the Twenty fourth days of
February last great Numbers of Coal heavers and other persons assembled
in a Riotons and Tamultuos manner in the said Parish of Saint Paul
Shadwell, and beat mained and wounded several Persons who were
Following their lawfull Occupations and broke the Windows Frames
and Shutters of many of the Inhabitants, and afterwards beared several
Ships in the River Thames and wounded and Cruelly Treated the
Masters Mates and Seaman on board, on Monday the sixth of March
following they went to the Salutation Tavern at Wapping walk
occupied by the Petitioner Thomas metcalf< no role > and about seven O'Clock in
the Evening entred the House pulled down the Chimney piece broke
the Windows China Bowls Decanters and almost every thing else in
the Bar the said Petitioner having fled from his House for fear of
being murthered they then with Oaths and Imprecations Demanded
of the said Petitioners wife the body of the Petitioner whose life they
swore they were determined to have, That the said Petitioner had a wife
and six Children who depended intirely on the said Petitioner for their
support and maintenance which they were deprived of by the
Petitioners being obliged to absent himself from his said House for
fear of being murthered on the Seventeenth being Saint Patricks day
upwards of four hundred of them assembled (headed by one Ralph
Rodgson< no role > Esquire one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County
of Middlesex and acting for that Parish who promised to take them under
his