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hearing what Your Appellant had to offer, as a Reason for the Dog's being
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there, Immediately resorted to Sir
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for a Warrant, & caused your
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, Two of his Majesty's
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in & for the sd County without
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Permitting Your appellant to get his witnesses to go with his; when and where
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Your appellant was upon the Oaths of
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convicted for unlawfully Stealing a Dog on the 25th. Day of Augt then last
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in the sd County of Middx from the sd
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the Owner thereof agt. the Statute in that case made & Provided
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& so forfeit the seem of £20
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That your Appellant well knowing that the Conviction was unjust
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and that he was able to prove,that he had no Intention of Stealing the sd
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of his Right and Property in the sd Dog;
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he did refuse to Pay the sd Sum of £20, although Demanded so to do by
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the sd last mentioned Justices, where upon the same Justices Committed Year
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for the Space of Six
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Calendar Months
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That by a Clause contained in the sd Statute, Your appellant
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(thin king himself aggrieved by the sd Conviction, & order of Committment
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is empowered to appeal to your Worships who are thereby likewise
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Empowered to hear,& finally Determine, the Causes,& Matters of this
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Appeal, in a Summary way; & Award such Costs to Your appellant as
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You shall think proper
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Therefore, and for as much as Your
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Appellant thinks himself aggrieved by means of
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the sd Premes; he humbly hopes, Your worships will
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grant him such Relief therein as the Nature of him
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Case Requires; and for as much as the sd. Conviction,
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or Order of Committment are in themselves repugn
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Contradictory & want Form Etc that the same may
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