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<p n="328">To the Right Honourable the <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n328-1">Lord Mayor</rs>
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and the<lb></lb>
Worshipfull the Aldermen his Majestys Justices of<lb></lb>
the Peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo301">City of London</rs>
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assembled at the<lb></lb>
General Quarter Session of the Peace held in and<lb></lb>
for the said City</p>
<p n="329">The Humble Petition of William<lb></lb>
Johnson of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo302">Excise office</rs>
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in the said City<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo303">London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ138">Gentleman</rs>
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<p n="330"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner did in Easter Term 1781<lb></lb>
commence his Action in his Majestys Court of Kings Bench at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo304">Westminster</rs>
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against <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n330-1">Thomas Wright</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ139">Esquire</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n330-2">Evan Pugh</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15093_occ140">Esquire</rs>
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two of the Inhabitants of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo305">City of London</rs>
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<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the Recovery of the Damages<obscured></obscured>
And by your Petitioner by<lb></lb>
reason and on Account of the Unlawful Pistons and<lb></lb>
Tumultuous assembly of Divers persons to the number of<lb></lb>
Twelve and more at the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo306">City of London</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo307">Saint Andrew Holborn</rs>
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in the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo308">Farrington without</rs>
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<lb></lb>
on the 7th. day of June in the year of our Lord 1780 and then<lb></lb>
and there unlawfully Feloniously and with force wholly<lb></lb>
demolishing a certain dwelling House and divers goods and<lb></lb>
Chattels therein Kept and deposited belonging to your Petitioner<lb></lb>
Situate in Bernards Inn in the said Parish and Ward aforesaid<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo309">City of London</rs>
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aforesaid</p>
<p n="331">That your Petitioner having Declared in such Action the<lb></lb>
Defendants pleaded thereto and the Cause being thereupon at<lb></lb>
Issue the same came on to be and was tried before the Right<lb></lb>
Honourable The Earl of Mansfield Chief Justice of the said<lb></lb>
Court the sittings after <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15093_n331-1">Hilary Term</rs>
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last at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo310">Guildhall</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
and for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15093_geo311">City of London</rs>
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when a verdict was found<lb></lb>
for your Petitioner for the sum of £56:4s:5d being the<lb></lb>
Amount</p>
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