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To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor
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of the City of London Mr. Recorder and the rest
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of the Worshipfull His Majesty's Justices of
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the Peace for the said City in their General
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Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled.
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The humble Petition of
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Twentieth day of March in the sixth
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Year of his present Majesty's Reign
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your Petitioner
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was Convicted before
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then and
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still
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Lord Mayor
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and then and
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Still one of his Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace
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for the
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for neglecting to place or put up in a
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Conspicuous manner on or ever his form and in a large
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fair and legible Character wrote or printed a true and
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particular Account of the Quantity of Codfish which
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he had for Sale in
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Billingsgate Market
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on Tuesday
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the 18th. Instant before he exposed the same for Sale
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And is Adjudged to pay and forfeit the Sum of five pounds
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Your Petitioners conceiving himself Aggrieved
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thereby Doth humbly Appeal against the
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said Conviction as being illegal and Prays
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such Relief in the Premises as to your
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Lordship and Worships shall seem meet.
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