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At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of Our Sovereign Lord the King holden for the
County of Middx at Hicks hall in St. John Street in the County aforesaid by Adjornment on Tuesday
the fifteenth day of January in the twenty fourth year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the
Second King Great Britain Etc before Thomas Lane< no role > George Errington< no role > William Withers< no role > William Caslon< no role >
John Lawson< no role > Esquires & Others their Fellows Justices of Our said Lord the King Assigned to keep the
Peace in the County aforesaid and Also to hear and determine divers felonys trespasses & Other
Misdeeds committed in the same County.

Whereas Thomas Bell< no role > of the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields within the County of Middlesex
Linnen Draper exhibited his humble Petition of Appeal Unto the Court of General Quarter Session
of the Peace holder at Hicks hall in St. John Street in & for the said County by Adjournment On
Friday the twelfth day of October last Setting forth That On the fourteenth day of July last past
Edmund Sartell< no role > came before Henry Fielding< no role > Esquire One of his Majesty's Justices Assigned to
keep the Peace of Our Sovereign Lord the King in and for said County and exhibitted before
the said Justice a certain Complaint & Information in Writing Charging That after the
24th. day of June 1748 to wit On the 13th. day of July then instant in the Parish of St. Martin
in the fields in the County aforesaid the Petitioner a quantity of Cambrick did Sell to One [..]
James Limbery (which said Cambrick was not exposed to Sale for Exportation) contrary to
the form of the Statute in that Case made and provided By reason of which the Petitioner
had forfeited to the said Edmund Sartell< no role > the Informer in that behalf the sum of five pounds
of lawfully Money of Great Britain On Which said Information the Petitioners has been convicted
before the said Justice and the said Justice did therein Adjudge that the Petitioner had forfeited the
Said Sum of five pounds And that the Petitioner should pay the same to the said Edmund Sartell< no role >
And that the Petitioner Apprehended himself Agrieved by the said Conviction & Adjudication
And the Petitioner therefore According to the said Statute Appealed to his Majesty's Justices of the
peace in the said General Quarter Session Assembled against the said Conviction & Adjudication
And prayed that the said Conviction & [..] ication night be reversed & Set aside and that the
Petitioner might be further relieved in the Premisses According to Judgement of the Court and as the
Nature of the Case might require And Whereas by An Order made by the Court of the said General
Quarter Session of the peace on the said twelfth day of October last the benefit of the said Petition of
Appeal was saved Unto the Petitioner, And the hearing and determining thereof was Adjourned Untill
the then next General Quarter Session of the Peace (to wit) this present General Quarter Session of
the Peace holden for the said County of Middx, And the Matter of the said Petition of Appeal being
Appointed to be heard & determined by this Court on this fifteenth day of January instant Now
upon Motion made unto this Court y Mr. Williams of Councel for the Petitioner praying that the
hearing & determining the Matter of the said Petition of Appeal may be further Adjourned and
Offering Several reasons for that purpose This Court by Consent of Mr. Phederys of Councel
for the sd. Edmund Sartell the Informer Doth Order that the hearing & determining thereof
be and the same is hereby further adjourned Untill the next General Quarter Session of the
Peace to be holden for the said County of Middx And that the said Edmund Sartell< no role > (upon
Service of a Copy of this Order) And all Persons concerned do Attend the Court of the said
next General Quarter Session of the Peace to be holden at Hicks hall in St. John Street
in and for the said County by Adjournment On Thursday the Elizabethday of
April next at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon to hear and abide the Judgment and
determination of the same Court touching the said Petition of Appeal

By the Court
Waller