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July 1789

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MIDDLESEX .


AT the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our
Lord the King, holden in and for the County of Middlesex , at
the Session-House for the said County,()
on Monday the Sixth Day of Julyin the
Twenty ninthYear of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
GEORGE the Third, King of Great Britain, etc. Before William
Mainwaring
< no role > , David Walker< no role > , Thomas Gordon< no role > , Charles Triquet< no role >
Esquires , and others their 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 William Waddington< no role > of the Parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the
County of Middlesex Dealer in Gloves by Retail Hath at this present Session Exhibited
his Petition and Appeal setting forth That by a certain Conviction under the Hand and
Seal of John Staples< no role > Esqr. one of His Majestys Justices of the peace for the County of Middlesex
bearing date the fifteenth day of May One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty nine He
was Convicted for that He on the Twelfth day of May last past did sell unto one Mary
Thompson
< no role > one pair of Gloves made of Leather above the price or value of One Shilling and
four pence (that is to say) of the price or value of One Shilling and six pence and subject
to the Stamp Duty of Three pence without any Stamp Ticket Mark or Device whatever
being affixed to the said pair of Gloves or to either of them marked or stamped as by the
Statute in such Case made and provided is directed The Petitioner (as is alledged in
the said Conviction then and there not being a Person Licensed by the said Act selling the aforesaid
Gloves to any Retailer of Gloves or Mittens also licensed by the said Act contrary to the four
of the Statute in such Case made and provided whereby the Petitioner conceived himself aggrieved
Now upon hearing the said Appeal and what hath been alledged by the respective Parties
their Counsel and Witnesses in and concerning the premises It is Ordered that the said
a Conviction be and the same is hereby Quashed

By the Court
Selby




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