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<p n="77">To the Worshipful his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50929_occ17">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50929_geo53">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Assembled at the General<lb></lb>
Session of the Peace for the said County at the Session<lb></lb>
House on <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50929_geo54">Clerkenwell Green</rs>
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on Monday the Twelfth<lb></lb>
Day of September 1796</p>
<p n="78">The Humble Petition and Appeal of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50929_n78-1">Robert Armstrong</rs>
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of Shorts Gardens in the <lb></lb>
said County Pawnbroker</p>
<p n="79"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner was on or about the Seventeenth<lb></lb>
day of August last Convicted in the Penalty of Five pounds by<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50929_n79-1">Thomas Robinson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50929_occ18">Esquire</rs>
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one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50929_occ19">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50929_geo55">County of Middlesex</rs>
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upon an Information Exhibited<lb></lb>
and Prosecuted by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50929_n79-2">James Tuffield</rs>
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charging that your Petitioner<lb></lb>
being a Person using and excercising the Trade and business of a <lb></lb>
Pawnbroker at Shorts Gardens in the said county on the second<lb></lb>
day of July now last past at Shorts Gardens aforesaid did take <lb></lb>
and receive of and from one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50929_n79-45">Esther Dale</rs>
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a certain Pledge to wit<lb></lb>
a Ring upon which your Petitioner did then and there lend <lb></lb>
the sum of Three Shillings and six pence and at the time of taking<lb></lb>
the said Pledge did neglect and refuse to give to the said Esther<lb></lb>
Dale a Note or Memorandum as directed by the Statute in that<lb></lb>
Case made and provided and did receive and retain the said<lb></lb>
Pledge without the said Esther Dale accepting or taking the said Note<lb></lb>
or Memorandum contrary to the form of the said Statute</p>
<p n="80">That your Petitioner conceives himself agrieved by <lb></lb>
such Conviction and is advised to appeal against the same</p>
<p n="81">Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays<lb></lb>
your Worships will be pleased to permit him<lb></lb>
to enter his appeal so that the same may be<lb></lb>
heard at this present General Session of the Peace in and <lb></lb>
for the said County and that you Worships<lb></lb>
will appoint a day for hearing and determining <lb></lb>
the same</p>
<p n="82">And your Petitioner as in duty <lb></lb>
bound will ever pray Etc</p>
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