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To the Worshipful his Majestys
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Justices of the
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Assembled at the
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General Session of the Peace for the said County at the
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Session House on
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on Monday
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the Twelfth day of September 1796
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The Humble Petition and Appeal of
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Robert Armstrong
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of Shorts Gardens in
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the said County
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Pawn broker
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner was on or abourt the seventeenth
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day of August last Convicted in the Penalty of Five pounds by
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Thomas Robinson
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Esqrs: one of his Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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for the said
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upon an Information Exhibited
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and Prosecuted by James Supplied charging that your Petitioner
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being Person using and excercising the Trade and business of a
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Pawn broker at Shorts Gardens in the said County on the second
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day of August now last past at Shorts Gardens aforesaid did take
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and receive of and from one
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Esther Dale
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a certain Pledge to wit
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a pair of Earrings upon which did then and there and the sum of
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Two Shillings and that your Petitioner at the time of the taking
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the said Pledge did neglect and refuse to give to the said Esther
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Dale a Note a Note or Memorandum as directed by the Statute
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in such case made and provided and did receive and retain
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said Pledge without the said Esther Dale accepting or taking the
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said Note or Memorandum contrary to the form of the Statute
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in such case made and provided
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That your Petitioner conceives himself agrieved by such
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Conviction and is advised to appeal against the same
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Your Petitioner therefore humbly Prays your
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worships will be pleased to permit him to enter
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his appeal so that the same may be heard at
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this present General Session of the Peace in and
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for the said County and that your worships will
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appoint a day for hearing and determining
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the same
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And as in duty found will ever
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Pray Etc
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