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To the Right Honourable the
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their general Quarter Session of the Peace for the said City assembled
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The humble Petition of
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Thomas Langdale
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner in Michaelmas Sum 1780 commenced his Action in the
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Court of
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Bench at
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against
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Brackley Kennett
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Thomas Wright
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Evan Pugh
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Esquires
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there of the Inhabitants of the said City for the recovery of the
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damages sustained by your Petitioner on the 7th. of June 1780 by the Rioters pulling
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sown and demolishing his swelling Houses and other Buildings and his Household Goods
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and Furniture therein belonging to your Petitioner in the said
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City of London
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That such Action came on to be and was tried before Mr Justice Buller and a special
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Jury as the Sellings after
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Hilary Term
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1781 as the
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in and for the said City of
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London when a Verdict was found for your Petitioner for the Sum of £18,729.0.10 being
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the Amount of the Damages so by your Petitioner sustained on the Account aforesaid
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And that your Petitioner soon afterwards got his Costs of the said Action and Suit taxed
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and settled by the proper Office of the said Court of Kings Bench and the same were
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taxed as the Sum of £ 244.19.2
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That your Petitioner on the 21st July 1781 obtained and signed final Judgment in
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the said Action against the said Defendants for his said Damages and Costs makings
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together the Sum of £19,974 which said Judgment now remain entred up of Record
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in the said Court
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That the then
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Lord Mayor
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and others his Majestys
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for the
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said City in Sessions Assembled did soon after (by force and virtue of the several Acts
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of Parlimant enabling them in that behalf) only make their Order or Orders of Session
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and issue the
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Precept and Precepts for raising and levying and collecting on the
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Inhabitants at large of the said
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the said Sum of £18,974 to be
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paid to your Petr. for his said Damages and Costs according to the directions of the
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said several Acts of Parliament and that Rates being made on the Inhabitants the
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Moner thereby assessed and collected were by the Collectons paid into the
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of
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but such Rates and Collections turnes out insufficient for paying your Petitioner the
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whole of his said Damages and Costs for that the Monies raised and collected for your
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Petitioners and paid into the said Chamber of London did but amount to the Sum of
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£18,650.16.8 whereby the same was deficient for discharging your said Petitioners
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