MIDDLESEX .

AT the General 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, ( )on Monday
the Eighteenth Day of February in the thirty ninth
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 > , John Bond< no role > , James Stratter< 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 Misdemeanours com-
mitted in the same County.

Whereas Edward Clarke< no role > of the Parish of Saint Luke in the County of Middlesex Pawnbroker
Hath at this present Session Exhibited his Petition and Appeal setting forth That He was on the
Twenty eighth day of January last Convicted before Cranley Thomas Kirby< no role > Esquire one of his Majestys
Justices assigned to keep the peace of our Lord the King in and for the said County and also to hear
and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanors done and committed within the
said County upon the Information of James Hallwood< no role > of King Street in the Parish of Saint George
Bloomsbury in the County of Middlesex aforesaid For that He the Petitioner using and exercising
the Trade and Business of a Pawnbroker did in the Parish of Saint Luke in the said County of
Middlesex on the twenty first day of June in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and
Ninety eight demand receive and take of and from one Mary Pais< no role > in the name of Mary Brown< no role > on
redeeming the Pawn or Pledge hereafter mentioned the Sum of One Penny of lawful Money of Great
Britain as and for and by way of profit upon three shillings of like lawful Money the same being
an intermediate Sum exceeding the Sum of Two shillings and six pence and not exceeding the Sum
of Forty shillings then to fore to wit on the Sixteenth day of June in the year of our Lord One
Thousand seven hundred and ninety eight aforesaid lent and advanced by the Petitioner upon a
certain Pawn or Pledge that is to say a Shift to the said Mary Peis in the name of Mary
Brown< no role > the said Sum of One penny so demanded received and taken as aforesaid being more than
at and after the rate of Four pence for the loan of Twenty shillings by the Calendar Month inclucing
the current Month in which the said Pawn or Pledge was redeemed, contrary to the form of the
Statute in such case made and provided whereby and by force of the Statute he had forfeited for
his said Offence the Sum of Five pounds: and that he was at the hearing of the said Information
adjudged by the said Justice to forfeit and pay the Sum of Six Pounds whereby the Petitioner
conceived himself aggrieved Now upon hearing the said Appeal and what hath been
alledged by the respective Parties their Counsel and Witnesses in and concerning the premises
It is Ordered that the said Conviction be and the same is hereby Quashed

By the Court