To the Worshipful this Majesty's Justices of the
Peace
for the County of Middlesex
assembled at
the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the
said County by adjournment at the Sessions House
on Clerkenwell Green
The Humble Petition and Appeal of Thomas Ensor< no role >
of
High Street
Saint Mary le bone
Pawnbroker
Sheweth
That your Petitioner was on or about the Eleventh
day of March last convicted in the Penalty of Five Pounds
by
Nathaniel Conant< no role >
C.
John Scoft< no role >
Esquires
[..] two of the Justices of the Peace
for the said County upon an Information exhibited and
prosecuted by
James Pegler< no role >
charging that your Petitioner
using the trade of a Pownbroker did in
High Street
in the
Parish of saint Mary-le-bone
in the said County on the
12th. day of June 1793 take and receive of
John Crossley< no role >
on
redu
[..] ning the pledge therein after mentioned One
Penny by was of profit upon two Shillings on the
Seventh day of May in the Year 1793 lent upon a
Pledge of a Silver Tea Spoon to the said
John Crossley< no role >
contrary to the Statute Etc.
That your Petitioner conceiving himself
aggrieved by such conviction is advised to appeal against
the same
Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays
your Worships will be pleased to permit
him to enter his Appeal so that the same
may be heard at this present General
Quarter Session of the Peace in and for
the said County and that your Worships
will appoint a day for hearing and
determining the same
And your Petitioner shall ever
pray Etc.