Middlesex

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord
the King holden in and for the County of Middlesex at the
Guildhall in King Street Westminster by adjournment on
Thursday the third day of July in the seventeenth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great
Britain Etc Before Sir John Hawkins< no role > Knight the Reverend
Sir George Booth< no role > Barronet Sir John Chetwode< no role > Baronet
John Spencer Colepeper< no role > Esquire and others there fellows Justices
of our said Lord the King Assigned to keep the Peace in the
County aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers felonies
Trespasses and other misdemeanours committed in the same
County

Whereas Thomas Hill< no role > of the Hamlet of Mile end New town Weaver Did
at the last General Session of the Peace Exhibit his Petition and Appeal setting
forth That on the eleventhday of April last the Petitioner was convicted
before John Staples< no role > Esquire one of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the said
County of Middlesex of buying and receiving six ounces of wrought Silk
(knowing the same to be purloined or Embezzled) the property of William
Hopkins< no role > of Lemon Street in the parish of Saint Mary Whitechapel in the
said County Silk Throwster and by him delivered to be manufactured
That previous to the said Conviction of the Petitioner one Elizabeth Pidgion< no role >
who was employed by the said William Hopkins< no role > as a Winster was convicted
before the said County of Middlesex of embezzling Silk entrusted to her to be
manufactured the property of the said William Hopkins< no role > and thereupon the said
Elizabeth Pidgion made satisfication to the said William Hopkins< no role > by paying to him
the Sum of six pounds Six Shillings being the value of the Silk the said William
Hopkins< no role > alledged she had embezzled of his property whereby the said Elizabeth
Pidgion compounded the said Offence with the said William Hopkins< no role > and the
said Elizabeth Pidgion was thereupon forthwith discharged from the said
Conviction and that without receiving any Corporal punishment as by the Statute
in such case made and provided is required to be Inflicted on persons Guilty
of embezzling Silk entrusted to them to be manufactured That the said
William Hopkins< no role > shortly afterwards procured the said Elizabeth Pidgion to