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23rd June 1772 - 23rd December 1773

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To the Right honble Brass Crosby< no role > Esqr . Lord
Mayor of the City of London and to the
Worshipful the Aldermen his Majestys
Justices of the peace for the same City at their
general Quarter Session of the peace
assembled.

The humble Petition of Samuel Plummer< no role > a
Master Taylor within the said City of
London

Sheweth


That your Petr. was on the seventeenth day of October
Instant convicted before the Right honble Brass Crosby< no role > Esqr .
Lord Mayor and William Nash< no role > Esqr . the Lord Mayor elect
of the said City of London , two of Jus Majesty's Justices of the
Peace in and for the said City, of giving allowing and
paying and or causing to be given allowed and or paid in money
on the 6th. day of July last past to James Cawdry< no role > and
Richard Field< no role > two Journeymen Taylor , for working in at the
said Business of a Taylor on the first second third fourth
fifth and sixth days of the said Month of July in the
parish of Saint Dunstan in the East in the said City
move and greater Wages than are allowed by Law, for
which said offence your Petitioner was by the said Justices
adjudged and ordered to be committed to the House of
Correction of Bridewell within the said City there to be kept
and detained there and setto hard Labour for the spaceTerm
of fourteen days.

That your petitioner is advised that the conviction of
the said two Justices is illegal,& therefore appealls against
there me

Your Petitioner therefore humble
appeals against the said conviction and
Prays that thesaid Convictionsame
may be quashed,

And your Petitioner shall ever pray etc.




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