To The Right Honble The Lord Mayor
and Aldermen of the City of London in the
General Quarter Session of the Peace for
the same City assembled.

The humble Petition of William Henry Shute< no role >

Sheweth

That Your Petitioner on the 18th Day of September
last was convicted before The Right Honble The Lord Mayor and
Sir John Barnard< no role > Knt . and Aldermen for publishing a Scheme
for advancing small Sums of Money by several Persons amounting
in the whole to large Sums to be divided amongst them by Chances
in the Nature of a Lottery contrary to the Statute made in the
8th. Year of His late Majesty and adjudged to pay the Sum of
£500, and to be imprisoned for the Space of Twelve Months
according to the Directions of the same Act.

Your Petitioner most humbly apprehends
himself to be aggrieved by the said Conviction
and appeals to this Honble Court and prays
such Relief in the Premisses as to this
Honble Court shall seem meet

W H Shute