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Worshipfull the Aldermen his Majestys Justices of
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the Peace for the
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General Quarter Session of the Peace held in and
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The Humble Petition of William
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Johnson of the
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner did in Easter Term 1781
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commence his Action in his Majestys Court of Kings Bench at
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Thomas Wright
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the Recovery of the Damages
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And by your Petitioner by
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reason and on Account of the Unlawful Pistons and
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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 Ward of
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on the 7th. day of June in the year of our Lord 1780 and then
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and there unlawfully Feloniously and with force wholly
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demolishing a certain dwelling House and divers goods and
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Chattels therein Kept and deposited belonging to your Petitioner
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Situate in Bernards Inn in the said Parish and Ward aforesaid
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in the
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aforesaid
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That your Petitioner having Declared in such Action the
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Defendants pleaded thereto and the Cause being thereupon at
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Issue the same came on to be and was tried before the Right
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Honourable The Earl of Mansfield Chief Justice of the said
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Court the sittings after
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in
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when a verdict was found
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for your Petitioner for the sum of £56:4s:5d being the
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