To the Worshipful His Majesty Justices
of the Peace for the County of Middlesex
Assembled at the Adjourned General Quarter
Sessions of the Peace holden in and for the
County of Middlesex on Monday the Twenty
third day of October 1797

The Humble Petition of Elisha Ambler< no role > of
Isleworth in the County of Middlesex

Sheweth

That your Petitioner was on or about the
Twenty first day of July last past summoned to appear
before Samuel Tolfrey< no role > Esquire or before such the Justices
of the Peace as should be Sitting at the Public Office
in Bow Street Covent Garden or Monday the Twenty fourth
day of July last to Answer for that your Petitioner being
a Collector of the Tolls at a certain Turnpike Gate called
Isleworth Gate in the said County Did on Saturday the
fifteenth the Instant take of and from one Moses
Williams< no role > a Greater Toll (to wit the Sum of From Place)
for a six Inch Wheel Cart drawn by two Horses passing
through the said Turnpike then what is allowed by Law
Contrary to the Statute Etc.

That your Petitioner appeared at the Public
Office in Bow Street pursuant to the said Summons And
was convicted in the Penalty of Forty shillings for the
said Offence by the Sitting Magistrates Six William
Addington< no role > Knight

That your Petitioner at the time he was
so convicted thought and still thinketh himself aggrieved by
the Judgement of the said Justice in as much as your
Petitioner was not Guilty of the said Offence so charged