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To the Right Honourable the Lord
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Mayor and the rest of
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London at their General Quarter
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Sessions of the Peace for the said City
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The Humble Petition of
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James Malo
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Londn
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner did in Michaelmas Term last
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Commence his Action in
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three of
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the Inhabitants of the said
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for Recovery of the Damages
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sustained by Your Petitioner by reason and on Account of the unlawful
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riotous and tumultuous Assembly of divers Persons to the Number of
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twelve and more at the said
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in the Parish of Saint
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Stephen Coleman
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on the seventh day
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of June in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty
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and then and there unlawfully feloniously and with force demolishing
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as well wholly as in part a Dwelling House and divers Outhouses and
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other Buildings and Premises thereunto adjoining and divers goods
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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
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the Defendants Pleaded thereto and the Cause being thereupon at Issue
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the same came on to be and was Tried before Mr. Justice Buller
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and a special Jury at the sittings after the last
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Hilary Term
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when after a long Tryal
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a Verdict was found for your Petitioner for the Sum of Three tho
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six hundred and sixty seven pounds and six pence being the
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Amount of the Damages so by Your Petitioner sustained on the
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Account and in the manner aforesaid besides your Petitioner's Costs
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of Suit
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That your Petitioner hath since the Tryal of the said
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Cause and since the said Verdict was found as aforesaid got his Costs
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