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To the Right Honourable
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William Beckford
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his Majesties
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for the City of
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London And the Liberties thereof in their General
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Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled
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The humble Petition and Appeal of
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Nehemiah
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Sheweth
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That Your Petitioner was on the first day of
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January Instant Convicted before Sir
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William
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Stephenson
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One of his Majestys Justices
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Assigned to keep the Kings Peace in the said
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And
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also to hear and Determine diver are Felonies Trespasses
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and other Misdemeanours in the said City Committed
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For that Your Petitioner on the Eighteenth day of
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December last at
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aforesaid being then and there
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a
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and Employed to Sell Cattle for others
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by Commission in the Parish of Saint Sepulcher in the
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said
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Did on the Eighteenth day of December
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aforesaid (to wit) in the Parish of
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within the said City Sell three Line
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Calves on his own Account each of the said live Calves
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then and there being of the Value of Two Pounds and
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ten Shillings of Lawfull money of
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against the form of the Statute in such Case made
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and Provided And thereupon Your Petitioner was
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adjudged for his said Offence to have forfeited the Sum of
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Fifteen Pounds of Lawful money of Great Britain to be
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distributed as the said Statute doth direct
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That Your Petitioner is advised and humbly conceives
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that he is aggrieved by the said Conviction
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Your Petitioner therefore humbly
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Appeals against the said Conviction
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And humbly prays that this Honble
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Court will please to appoint a day for
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hearing this his Petitioner and Appeal and
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that a Your Petitioner may have
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such Relief in the Premisses of as to this
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Honble Court shall seem meet
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And Your Petrs. shall ever pray etc
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