To the Worshipful his Majestys Justices of the
Peace for the County of Middlesex Assembled at the
General Session of the Peace for the said County at the
Session House on Clerkenwell Green on Monday
the Twelfth day of September 1796

The Humble Petition and Appeal of
Robert Armstrong< no role > of Shorts Gardens in
the said County Pawn broker

Sheweth

That your Petitioner was on or abourt the seventeenth
day of August last Convicted in the Penalty of Five pounds by
Thomas Robinson< no role > Esqrs: one of his Majestys Justices of the Peace
for the said County of Middlesex upon an Information Exhibited
and Prosecuted by James Supplied charging that your Petitioner
being Person using and excercising the Trade and business of a
Pawn broker at Shorts Gardens in the said County on the second
day of August now last past at Shorts Gardens aforesaid did take
and receive of and from one Esther Dale< no role > a certain Pledge to wit
a pair of Earrings upon which did then and there and the sum of
Two Shillings and that your Petitioner at the time of the taking
the said Pledge did neglect and refuse to give to the said Esther
Dale a Note a Note or Memorandum as directed by the Statute
in such case made and provided and did receive and retain
said Pledge without the said Esther Dale accepting or taking the
said Note or Memorandum contrary to the form of the Statute
in such case made and provided

That your Petitioner conceives himself agrieved by such
Conviction and is advised to appeal against the same

Your Petitioner therefore humbly Prays your
worships will be pleased to permit him to enter
his appeal so that the same may be heard at
this present General Session of the Peace in and
for the said County and that your worships will
appoint a day for hearing and determining
the same

And as in duty found will ever
Pray Etc