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To the Worshipful his Majestys
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Session of the Peace for the said County at the Session
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House on
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on Monday the Twelfth
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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 the
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said County Pawnbroker
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That your Petitioner was on or about 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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Esquire
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one of his Majestys
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upon an Information Exhibited
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and Prosecuted by
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James Tuffield
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charging that your Petitioner
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being a Person using and excercising the Trade and business of a
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Pawnbroker at Shorts Gardens in the said county on the second
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day of July 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 Ring upon which your Petitioner did then and there lend
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the sum of Three Shillings and six pence and at the time of 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 or Memorandum as directed by the Statute in that
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Case made and provided and did receive and retain the said
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or Memorandum contrary to the form of the said Statute
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That your Petitioner conceives himself agrieved by
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such Conviction and is advised to appeal against the same
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Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays
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your Worships will be pleased to permit him
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to enter his appeal so that the same may be
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heard at this present General Session of the Peace in and
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for the said County and that you Worships
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will appoint a day for hearing and determining
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the same
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And your Petitioner as in duty
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bound will ever pray Etc
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