To the Worshipful his Majestys Justices of the Peace for
the County of Middlesex assembled at the General Quarter
Session of the Peace for the said County on Clerkenwell
Green on Monday the Tenth day of July 1797

The Humble Petition and Appeal of Robert
Johnson< no role > of White Cross Street in the County of
Middlesex Pawnbroker

Sheweth

That your Petitioner was on or about the
Twenty seventh day of June last Convicted in the Penalty
of Five pounds by Patrick Colquhoun< no role > Esquire one of the
Justices of the Peace for the said County upon an Information
Exhibited and Prosecuted by James Bradley Pegler< no role > charging
that your Petitioner then using and excercising the Trade
and business of a Pawnbroker did in the Parish of Saint
Luke in the said County on the seventeenth day of June
in the Year of our Lord 1797 take and receive of and from
one Mary Elizabeth Clarke< no role > by way of Pawn or Pledge
a child Petticoat and Bed Gown and did then and
there advance and lend thereon to the said Mary
Elizabeth Clark< no role > the Sum of six pence of lawfull Money of
Great Britain she the said Mary Elizabeth Clarke
being and then and there appearing to be made the
age of Twelve Years Contrary to the Statute Etc

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 said appeal
so that the same may be heard at
this present General Quarter Session
of the Peace and that your worships
will be pleased to appoint a Day for
hearing and determining the same

And your Petitioner shall Etc.