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<p n="112">To <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ18">the Right Honourable</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ19">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo27">City of London</rs>
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and the Rest of the Worshipful<lb></lb>
his Majety's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ20">Justices of the Deace</rs>
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for the said City in<lb></lb>
their General Quarter Sessions of the Peace assembled</p>
<p n="113">The Humble Petition and Appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n113-1">Martha Sharpe</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ21">Widow</rs>
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Citizen and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ22">Weaver</rs>
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of London</p>
<p n="114"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That by Virtue of a Act of Parliament made in the<lb></lb>
ninth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Ann<lb></lb>
in tilled "An Act for the better Preservation and Improvement of the Fishery<lb></lb>
"within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo28">River of Thames</rs>
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and for Regulating and Governing the<lb></lb>
"Company of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ23">Fishermen</rs>
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of the said River." on the thirtieth Day of October<lb></lb>
in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty five Before<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n114-1">Stephen Theodore Janssen</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ24">Esquire</rs>
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then <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ25">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo29">City of London</rs>
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and then and still one of the Justices of our Lord the King assigned to keep the<lb></lb>
Peace of our said Lord the King within the said City and also to he are and<lb></lb>
determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanors committed<lb></lb>
within the said City At <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo30">the Mansion House</rs>
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seituate in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo31">St.<lb></lb>
Mary Wool church-Haw</rs>
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in London afforesaid Your Petitioner was <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ26">convicted</rs>
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upon a certain Information in Writing made by one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15067_n114-2">John Curtis</rs>
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of the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo32">Christ Church London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15067_occ27">Fishmonger</rs>
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For that Your Petitioner did as was<lb></lb>
alledged on the twenty fourth Day of the same Month of October at the<lb></lb>
Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo33">St. Mary at Hill</rs>
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in London aforesaid unlawfully Fish namely One<lb></lb>
form of the Statute in such Case made and provided sell Fish namely One<lb></lb>
Turbot within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15067_geo34">Market of Billingsgate</rs>
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which on the said twenty fourth<lb></lb>
Day of October had been before sold within the said Market And a Fine of<lb></lb>
Ten Shillings was then and there imposed upon your Petitioner for the said<lb></lb>
Offence</p>
<p n="115">Your petitioner conceiving herself<lb></lb>
aggrieved thereby doth humbly appeal<lb></lb>
against the said Conviction as being as<lb></lb>
She is advised illegal and prays such<lb></lb>
Relief in the Premisses as to your<lb></lb>
Lordship and Worships shall seem most<lb></lb>
meet</p>
<p n="116">And Your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc.</p>
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