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(by adjournment)
on Monday the Second Day of July in
the Thirty second Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord GEORGE the Third, King of Great Britain, Etc. Before
William Mainwaring< no role > , William Bleamire< no role > , Nathaniel Conant< no role >
Charles Sheppard< 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 Lancaster< no role > of Turnmill Street Clerkenwell Pawnbroker Hath
at this present Session Exhibited his Petition and Appeal setting forth That He was on or above the
26th. day of May last Convicted in the Penalty of Five Pounds by Joseph Faikney< no role > Esquire one of His
Majestys Justices of the Peace for the said County For that He the Petitioner as stated in the said
Conviction then using and exercising the Trade and Business of a Pawnbroker did in Turnmill Street
in the Parish of Saint James Clerkenwell in the said County on the 17th. day of May 1792 take and
receive of and from one Ann Clark< no role > on redeeming the Pawn or Plidge therein after mentioned the
Sum of One penny as and for and by way of Profit upon Three Shillings the same being an intermediate
Sum exceeding the Sum of Two Shillings and six pence and not exceeding the Sum of Forty
Shillings thentofore to wit on the 16th. day of the said Month of May lent and advanced by him
upon a certain Pawn or Pledge that is to say a Gown and Petticoat to the said Ann Clark< no role > in the
name of Preston the said Sum of One Penny so taken and received being more than at and
after the Rate of Four pence for the loan of Twenty Shillings by the Calendar Month including the
current Money in which the said Pawn or Pledge was redeemed contrary to the Statute Etc whereby
the Petitioner conceived himself aggrieved Now upon hearing the said appeal and what hath
been alledged by the respective Parties and their Counsel in and concerning the Premises It is
Ordered that the said Conviction be and the same is hereby Quashed.

By the Court