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<p n="630">To the Worshipful his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50959_occ125">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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acting in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50959_geo234">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in General<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the said County assembled</p>
<p n="631">The Humble Petition and Appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50959_n631-1">Thomas Townsend</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50959_geo235">Saint Leonard Shoreditch</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50959_geo236">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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Pawnbroker</p>
<p n="632"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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<p n="633">That by a certain conviction under the Hand and Seal of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50959_n633-1">John Nares</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50959_occ126">Esquire</rs>
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one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50959_occ127">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said<lb></lb>
County bearing date the twenty sixth day of March 1799 Your Petitioners<lb></lb>
was convicted as therein alledged for that on the twenty first day of March<lb></lb>
Instant at the Parish of Saint Leonard <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50959_geo237">Shoreditch</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50959_geo238">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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aforesaid your Petitioner who then and there used and<lb></lb>
Exercised the Trade and Business of a Pownbroker did demand receive<lb></lb>
and take of and from Hannah Gogay on reduming the Pawn and<lb></lb>
pledge thereafter mentioned the sum of One Penny as and for and<lb></lb>
by way of Profit upon and over and above the sum of One shilling<lb></lb>
and six pence theretofore to wit on the sixteenth day of February<lb></lb>
last last and advanced by your Petitioner upon a certain Pawn<lb></lb>
and pledge that is to say three Cotton Window Curtain to the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50959_n633-2">Hannah Gogay</rs>
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the said Sum of One Penny so demanded<lb></lb>
received and taken us aforesaid being more than at and after<lb></lb>
the rate of four Pence for the Evan of Twenty Shillings by the<lb></lb>
Calender Month including the Current Month in which such<lb></lb>
Pawn and pledge was reduced altho' such Month was not<lb></lb>
then Expired Contrary to the form of the Statute in such came<lb></lb>
made and provided and the said Justice did adjudge Your<lb></lb>
Petitioner to pay and Forfeit for the same the sum of Five<lb></lb>
Pounds of Lawful Money of Great Britain</p>
<p n="634">That your Petition conceives himself aggrieved by<lb></lb>
the Judgment of the said Justice and therefore</p>
<p n="635">Your Petitioner doth appeal to your<lb></lb>
Worships at this General Quarter Sessions<lb></lb>
of the Peace against the Judgment of the<lb></lb>
said Justice and doth pray such relief<lb></lb>
in the Premises as to your Worships<lb></lb>
shall seem meet</p>
<p n="636">B. Bishop Solr. for Appellant<lb></lb>
No 2 Middlx Temple Lant</p>
<p n="637"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50959_n637-1">Thos: Townsend</rs>
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