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To his Majesty's
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The humble Petition & Appeal of
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William Hamerton
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Sheweth
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against your
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That your Petitioner upon the
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22d: day of
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July last past
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at the said
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in the City and
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Liberty of
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did drivel A Cart loaded with and Containing a
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Quantity of Coals exceeding 8 Bushels to wit the Quantity of 20 Bushels
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in the
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aforesaid within the said City & Liberty of
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the duty of 4d:
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by the Chaldron not being paid & without your Petitioner's having any
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Paper writing or Tickett singed by any Principal Land Coal Meter &
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Counter singed by any Labouring Coal Meter who attended to deliver
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the said Coals & give suck Paper writing or Tickett there with as is
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directed by an Act of Parliament made in the 19th: year of the Reign
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of his Present Majesty intilled An Act more Effectually to prevent the
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Frauds & Abuses committed in the Admeasurement of Coals within the
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& that part of the Dutchy of Lancaster adjoyning
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thereto & the several Parishes
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and
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such part of the
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Holborn as lies in the
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That the Matter of the sd. Complaint Came to be heard before the sd.
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Mr. Burdns on the
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1st. day of August last
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past when the sd. Mr. Burdns was
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pleased to give Judgement of Conviction against your Petitioner for the said
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Offence And that your Petitioner should forfeit the Sum of five pounds of lawful
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Money of Great Britain One Moiety thereof to the use of the said
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& the other Moiety thereof to the use of the Poor of the
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aforesd.. where the said Offence was Alledged to have been Committed
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Wherefore and in Regard your Petitioner thinks himself Aggreived
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by the sd. Judgement of Conviction given against him as aforesaid.
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J: Mackay
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Soll
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:
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for the Appellant.
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Your Petitioner therefore most humbly Appeals
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from the sd. Judgement of Conviction to your Worships in
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this present General Quarter Session of the Peace
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assembled ( being the next General Quarter Session
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of the Peace held for the
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after
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the said Conviction) And your Petitioner humbly
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prays that your worships will be pleased to
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reverse the sd. Judgment of Conviction given agt.
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your Petitioner as aforesaid and Acquitt your
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Petitioner thereof And Also Award to your
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Petitioner according to the Directions of the sd.
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Act of Parliament such reasonable Costs to be
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paid by the said
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upon whose
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Information or Prosecution the said Conviction
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was founded or made As to your Worships
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in your Discretion shall Seem meet.
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And your Petitioner (as in duty be and) shall ever pray Etc.
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