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The humble Petition of
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That your Petitioner did in Michaelmas Term last commence his
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for the Recovery of the Damages sustained by year
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Petitioner by reason and on Account of the unlawfull riotous and tumultrious
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Assembly of divers Persons to the Number of Twelve and more at the said City of
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without on the Seventh day of June in the Year of our Lord One thousand
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seven hundred and eighty and then and there unlawfully feloniously and with
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Force demolishing as well wholly as in part divers Dwelling Houses and
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Outhouses and other Buildings and Premises thereunto adjoining and divers
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Goods and Chattels therein kept and deposited belonging to your Petitioner in
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the said
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That your Petitioner having declared in such Action the Defendants
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pleaded thereto and the Cause being thereupon at Issue the same came
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on to be and was tryed before Mr. Justice Buller and a Special Jury at
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the Sittings after the last
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when after a Trial of Several hours a Verdict was found
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for your Petitioner for the Sum of Eighteen thousand Seven hundred and
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twenty nine Pounds and Ten pence being the Amount of the Damages so
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by your Pettioner Sustained on the Account and in the manner aforesaid
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besides your Pettiioners Costs of Suit
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That your Petitioner hath since the Tryal of the said Cause and
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