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aforesaid your Petitioner who then and there used and
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Exercised the Trade and Business of a Pownbroker did demand receive
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and take of and from Hannah Gogay on reduming the Pawn and
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pledge thereafter mentioned the sum of One Penny as and for and
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by way of Profit upon and over and above the sum of One shilling
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and six pence theretofore to wit on the sixteenth day of February
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last last and advanced by your Petitioner upon a certain Pawn
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and pledge that is to say three Cotton Window Curtain to the
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the said Sum of One Penny so demanded
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received and taken us aforesaid being more than at and after
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the rate of four Pence for the Evan of Twenty Shillings by the
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then Expired Contrary to the form of the Statute in such came
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made and provided and the said Justice did adjudge Your
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That your Petition conceives himself aggrieved by
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the Judgment of the said Justice and therefore
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Your Petitioner doth appeal to your
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Worships at this General Quarter Sessions
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of the Peace against the Judgment of the
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said Justice and doth pray such relief
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in the Premises as to your Worships
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shall seem meet
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B. Bishop Solr. for Appellant
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No 2 Middlx Temple Lant
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