To The Worshipful
Justices of the Peace assembled
at the General Quarter Sessions of the
Peace holden at Hicks's Hall in and
for the County of Middlesex on Tuesday
the Thirtieth day of October 1770

The Humble Petition and Appeal
of William Oxley< no role > of Virginia Street
Radcliffe Highway in the County of
Middlesex Gentleman

Sheweth

That your Petitioner is the Owner of Two Houses
adjorning together in the Parish of Saint Mary Stratford
Bow in Middlesex And he is also Owner of a Shop & Room
contiquous to the said Houses, from one of which there is
a Doorway into the said Shop and Room, but Mr. Richard
Short< no role > as the Owner of the Ground & Buildings under and
over the said Shop and Room has lately illegally turned
your Petitioners Tenant William Bennell< no role > out of the said
Shop & Room and pulled down all the Buildings over
the same, And in Order to deprise your Petitioner of his
Right to the said Shop and Room he threatens to build a
Wall between the same and your Petitioners House in
order to take the said Shop and Room into his own Buildings
over and under the same.

That your Petitioners Houses being inclosed with
a separate Partition from all Mr. Shorts Pemises both
ever and under the said Shop and Room and Mr. Short
Insisting on Building such Wall to exclude your
Petitioner from his said shop and Room, the said Premises
were viewed by Two Workman appointed by your
Petitioner and Two by Mr. Sheet, And your Petitioners
Workmen being of Opinion that the several Partitions between
your Petitioners and Mr. Short's Premises were separate
and not Party Partitions and unnecessary to be pulled
down, and refusing therefore to Sign any Certificate
concerning the same, Mr. Short upon Application to
Burr camper< no role > Esquire and David Wilmot< no role > Esquire two of
his Majesty's Justices of the Peace procured Mr. Thomas
Mutter< no role > his own Surveyor to be added to his other two
workmen, who being all his own Workmen by Certificate of