To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor
of the City of London and the Rest of the Worshipful
his Majety's Justices of the Deace for the said City in
their General Quarter Sessions of the Peace assembled

The Humble Petition and Appeal of Martha Sharpe< no role >
Widow Citizen and Weaver of London

Sheweth

That by Virtue of a Act of Parliament made in the
ninth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Ann
in tilled "An Act for the better Preservation and Improvement of the Fishery
"within the River of Thames and for Regulating and Governing the
"Company of Fishermen of the said River." on the thirtieth Day of October
in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty five Before
Stephen Theodore Janssen< no role > Esquire then Lord Mayor of the City of London
and then and still one of the Justices of our Lord the King assigned to keep the
Peace of our said Lord the King within the said City and also to he are and
determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanors committed
within the said City At the Mansion House seituate in the Parish of St.
Mary Wool church-Haw in London afforesaid Your Petitioner was convicted
upon a certain Information in Writing made by one John Curtis< no role > of the Parish
of Christ Church London Fishmonger For that Your Petitioner did as was
alledged on the twenty fourth Day of the same Month of October at the
Parish of St. Mary at Hill in London aforesaid unlawfully Fish namely One
form of the Statute in such Case made and provided sell Fish namely One
Turbot within the Market of Billingsgate which on the said twenty fourth
Day of October had been before sold within the said Market And a Fine of
Ten Shillings was then and there imposed upon your Petitioner for the said
Offence

Your petitioner conceiving herself
aggrieved thereby doth humbly appeal
against the said Conviction as being as
She is advised illegal and prays such
Relief in the Premisses as to your
Lordship and Worships shall seem most
meet

And Your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc.