To the Worshipful his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex Assembled at the General Session of the Peace
for the said County on Clerkenwell Green on the Twenty ninth
day of November 1796

The Humble Petition and Appeal of Joseph
Fleming< no role > of High Holborn in the said County Pawn broker

Sheweth

That your Petitioners was on or above the Twenty
sixth day of October last convicted in the Penalty of Five pounds
each by William Bleamire< no role > Esquire one of the Justices of the peace
for the Said county upon and information Exhibited and Prosecutes
by Thomas Chapman< no role > Charging that out your Petitioner did in the
Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn in the said County on the Seventeenth
day of September last past take and receive of and from abigail
Hill< no role > on redeeming the Pledge herein after next mentioned one
penny by way of profit upon six pence on the fifteenth day of [..]
Sum last lent upon a pledge of an Handkerchief to the said
abigail Hill And also Charging that your Petitioners did on
the Twenty ninth day of September now last past at the Parish
aforesaid in the County aforesaid take and receive of and from the
said abigail Hill on redeeming the pledge herein after mentioned
Two pence by way of profit upon five Shllings on the sixteenth
day of August lent upon a Pledge of a Ring to the said abigail
Hill, contrary to the Statute

That your Petitioners conceives himself agrieved by
such Conviction and is advised to Appeal against the same

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray
your Worships will be to pleased to permit
him to enter his appeal is 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
be pleased and to appoints a convenient day
for hearing and determining the same

And as in duty bound will
ever pray Etc