To the Worship ful William
Mainwaring< no role > Esquire Chairman And the rest
of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex in their General Quarter
Session of the Peace assembled.

The Humble Petition and appeal of James
Hector< no role > of Broad street in the parish of Saint Giles
in the fields in the said County of Middlesex Shop keeper

Sheweth

That by a certain Conviction under the
Hand and Seal of David Wilmot< no role > Esquire One of His Majesties
Justices of the peace for the said County of Middlesex bearing
date the 23rd. Day of August 1783 your petitioner was
Convicted before the said Justice For that he Your Petr.
being a Retail dealer in Gloves on the 19th day of August then
last past at the parish of Saint Gills aforesaid in the County
aforesaid did Unlawfully sell Two Gloves made of Woollen
materials above the price or value of Ten pence and not
exceeding the price or value of One shilling and Four Pence
Subject to a Stamp duty of Two Pence imposed in and by a
certain Act of Parliament made and passed in the Twenty
fifth year of his present Majesty's Reign for granting to his
Majesty certain Duties on licences to be taken out by persons
rending Gloves and Millens and also certain Duties on Gloves
and Mittens sold by Retail without the Stamp Ticket directed
by the said Act to be affixed to the Same being fixed and
marked and stamped in upon or to the said Gloves or either
of them as by the said Act is directed And contrary to the
Statute in such Case made and provideder

That