Middlesex

To the Worshipful his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace assembled in
their General Quarter Sessions of the
Peace holden in and for the said
County of Middlesex .

The humble Petition of James Duffin< no role > of the
Parish of Saint Ann Soho in the County of
Middlesex

Sheweth

That your Petitioner was on or about the third
day of November last summoned to appear before the sitting
Magistrate at the Public Office in Hatton Garden to answer
a certain information exhibited by one Martha Bunting
against your Petitioner for that your Petitioner did after
the Twenty fourth day of June One Thousand seven Hundred
and Thirty Nine to wit on the fourth day of September
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Seven at a certain
House in Leicester Street in the Parish of Saint Ann in the
County of Middlesex and City and Liberty of Westminster
unlawfully play at a certain fraudulent Game to be determined
by the chance of Dill under the denomination of the Game of Hazard

That your Petitioner in obedience to such
Summons appeared before the sitting Magestrate at the Public
Office aforesaid on the ninth day of November last when your
Petitioner was convicted by Aaron Graham< no role > Esquire of the said
offence and adjudged by him to pay the sum of Fifty Pounds
for such supposed Offence.