To the Worshipful his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for
the County of Middlesex assembled at the General Session of
the Peace for the said County on Clerkenwell Green on the
Twenty ninth day of November 1796

The Humble Petition and Appeal of Joseph
Fleming< no role > of High Holbour in the said County Pawn broker

Sheweth

That your Petitioner was on or about the Twenty
Sixth day of October last Convicted in two Penalty of Five Pounds
each by William Bleamire< no role > Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace
for the said County upon an Information Exhibited and Prosecuted
by Thomas Chapman< no role > charging that your Petitioner did in the
Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn in the said County on the
Seventeenth day of September last past take and receive of and
from abigail Hill< no role > on redeeming the pledge herein after next
mentioned one Penny by way of profit upon six pence on the
Twelfth day of August then last lent upon a Pledge of an
Handkerchief of to the said abigail Hill And also Charging
that your Petitioner did on the Twenty ninth day of September
now last past at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid
take and receive of and from the said abigail Hill on redeeming
the Pledge herein after mentioned Two pence by way of profit
upon fine Shillings on the sixteenth day of August Lent upon
Pledge of a Ring to the said abigail Hill, contrary to the Statute

That your Petitioner convicted himself agrieved by
such conviction and is advised to appeal against the same

Your Petitioner therefore humbly pray
your Worships will the pleased to permit him to
under his appeal so that He same may be heard
at this Present General Session of that Peace in and
for the said County And that your Worships will
be Pleased to appoint a convictions play for
hearing and determining the same

And as in duty saint will ever
pray Etc