To the Right honourable the Lord Mayor< no role > and the rest of his
Majestys Justices of the Peace for the City of London
At their General Quarter Sessions of the Peace
Assembled

The humble Petition of Thomas Langdale< no role > of
Holborn in the said City of London Distiller

Sheweth

That your Petitioner did in Michaelmas Term last commence his
Action in his Majestys Court of Kings Bench at Westminster against Brackley
Kennett Thomas Wright< no role > and Ovan Pugh< no role > Esquires three of the Inhabitants of
the said City of London for the Recovery of the Damages sustained by year
Petitioner by reason and on Account of the unlawfull riotous and tumultrious
Assembly of divers Persons to the Number of Twelve and more at the said City of
London in the Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn in the Ward of Farringdon
without on the Seventh day of June in the Year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty and then and there unlawfully feloniously and with
Force demolishing as well wholly as in part divers Dwelling Houses and
Outhouses and other Buildings and Premises thereunto adjoining and divers
Goods and Chattels therein kept and deposited belonging to your Petitioner in
the said City of London

That your Petitioner having declared in such Action the Defendants
pleaded thereto and the Cause being thereupon at Issue the same came
on to be and was tryed before Mr. Justice Buller and a Special Jury at
the Sittings after the last Hilary Term< no role > at the Guildhall in and for the
said City of London when after a Trial of Several hours a Verdict was found
for your Petitioner for the Sum of Eighteen thousand Seven hundred and
twenty nine Pounds and Ten pence being the Amount of the Damages so
by your Pettioner Sustained on the Account and in the manner aforesaid
besides your Pettiioners Costs of Suit

That your Petitioner hath since the Tryal of the said Cause and