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general Quarter Session of the peace
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The humble Petition of
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Sheweth
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That your Petr. was on the seventeenth day of October
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Instant convicted before the Right honble
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Lord Mayor and
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William Nash
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. the Lord Mayor elect
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of the said
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, two of Jus Majesty's Justices of the
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Peace in and for the said City, of giving allowing and
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paying and or causing to be given allowed and or paid in money
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on the 6th. day of July last past to
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James Cawdry
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Richard Field
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two
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Journeymen Taylor
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, for working in at the
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said Business of a Taylor on the first second third fourth
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fifth and sixth days of the said Month of July in the
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in the said City
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move and greater Wages than are allowed by Law, for
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which said offence your Petitioner was by the said Justices
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adjudged and ordered to be committed to the House of
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Correction of
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within the said City there to be kept
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and detained there and set
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to hard Labour for the space
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of fourteen days.
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That your petitioner is advised that the conviction of
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the said two Justices is illegal,
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& therefore appealls against
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there me
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Your Petitioner therefore humble
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appeals against the said conviction and
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Prays that the
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said Conviction
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same
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may be quashed,
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And your Petitioner shall ever pray etc.
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