Middlesex Sessions:
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July 1789

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Middlesex


To the Worshipful William Mainwaring< no role > Esquire
and others his Majesty's Justices of the peace Assembled at
the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held at the Sessions
House in and for the County of Middlesex on Monday the Sixth
day of July in the Twenty ninth year of the Reign of King George the
Shir [..]

The humble Petitioner of Charles Simpkin< no role > and Ann Orgill< no role >
of Oxford Street in the parish of Saint Mary le Bone in the
County of Middlesex Plumber

Sheweth


That your Petitioner were on the 28th. day of May last
convicted before John Barnfather< no role > and Edward gray< no role > Esquires two
of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County on the
information of Thomas Rogers< no role > Surveyor of the District of Saint
Mary le Bone in the said County appointed under an Act of
Pariliament made and Passed in the 14th. Year of the Reign of
our said Lord the King for erecting or causing to be erested a
projection to the front of their House Situate at No. 146 on the
North side of Oxford Street aforesaid next to the public Highway
in the Parish Saint Mary le Bone aforesaid beyond the limits
of ten Inches allowed by the said Act for the projection of Stall
Boards to Shop Fronts in Streets 30 Feet wide or more That is to say,
two Fees & upward And that the Cornish of the said Front did
project beyond the limits of 18 Inches allowed by the said Act for
the Covering of Shop fronts in Streets, 30 feet or more that is to
say two feet and six inches contrary to the said Act And the
said Justices on hearing of the said Information adjudged the said
Projection to be a common nuisance against which Judgment
your Petitioners appealed and entered into a recognizance in
manner as is directed by the said act of 14th. George 3d to Prosecute
their Said appeal

Your Petitioners therefore think themselves




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