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their General Quarter Sessions of the Peace assembled
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The Humble Petition and Appeal of
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Martha Sharpe
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Sheweth
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That by Virtue of a Act of Parliament made in the
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ninth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Ann
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in tilled "An Act for the better Preservation and Improvement of the Fishery
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and for Regulating and Governing the
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of the said River." on the thirtieth Day of October
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in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty five Before
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Stephen Theodore Janssen
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Esquire
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then
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and then and still one of the Justices of our Lord the King assigned to keep the
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Peace of our said Lord the King within the said City and also to he are and
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determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdemeanors committed
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within the said City At
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the Mansion House
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in London afforesaid Your Petitioner was
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convicted
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upon a certain Information in Writing made by one
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John Curtis
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For that Your Petitioner did as was
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alledged on the twenty fourth Day of the same Month of October at the
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Parish of
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in London aforesaid unlawfully Fish namely One
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form of the Statute in such Case made and provided sell Fish namely One
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Turbot within the
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which on the said twenty fourth
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Day of October had been before sold within the said Market And a Fine of
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Ten Shillings was then and there imposed upon your Petitioner for the said
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Offence
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Your petitioner conceiving herself
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aggrieved thereby doth humbly appeal
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against the said Conviction as being as
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She is advised illegal and prays such
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Relief in the Premisses as to your
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Lordship and Worships shall seem most
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meet
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And Your Petitioner shall ever pray Etc.
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