MIDDLESEX .

AT the General quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Lord
the King, holden in and for the County of Middlesex , at the Session-
House for the said County, (on Monday in the work next after the Feast of
the Epiphany to wit the Eighth Day of January- in the Thirty eight-
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 > , Rupert Clarke< no role > , Samuel Tolfrey< no role >
Esquires, and others their Fellows, Justices of our said Lord the King,
assigned to keep the Peace in County aforesaid; and also to hear and
determine divers Felonies, Trespasses and other Misdemenours com-
mitted in the same County.

Whereas James Duffin< no role > of the Parish of Saint Ann Soho in the County of Middx
Hath at this present Session Exhibited his Petition and appeal setting forth That He
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 Exhibted
by one Martha Bunting against him the Petitioner For that he did after the twenty fourth
say 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 Dice under the denomination of the Game of Hazard. That the petitioner
in obedience to such Summons appeared before the sitting Magistrate at the public Office
aforesaid on the Ninth day of November last when he was Covicted by Aaron Graham< no role >
Esqr. of the said Offence and adjudged by him to pay the Sum of Fifty Pounds for such
supposed Offence 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