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To the Worshipful his Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace
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for the
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Assembled at the General Session of the Peace
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for the said County on
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Clerkenwell Green
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on the Twenty ninth
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day of November 1796
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The Humble Petition and Appeal of
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Joseph
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Fleming
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of
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High Holborn
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in the said County
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Pawn broker
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioners was on or above the Twenty
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sixth day of October last convicted in the Penalty of Five pounds
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each by
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William Bleamire
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Esquire
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one of the Justices of the peace
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for the Said county upon and information Exhibited and Prosecutes
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by
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Thomas Chapman
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Charging that out your Petitioner did in the
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Parish of
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Saint Andrew Holborn
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in the said County on the Seventeenth
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day of September last past take and receive of and from
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abigail
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Hill
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on redeeming the Pledge herein after next mentioned one
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penny by way of profit upon six pence on the fifteenth day of
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Sum last lent upon a pledge of an Handkerchief to the said
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abigail Hill And also Charging that your Petitioners did on
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the Twenty ninth day of September now last past at the Parish
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aforesaid in the County aforesaid take and receive of and from the
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said abigail Hill on redeeming the pledge herein after mentioned
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Two pence by way of profit upon five Shllings on the sixteenth
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day of August lent upon a Pledge of a Ring to the said abigail
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Hill, contrary to the Statute
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That your Petitioners conceives himself agrieved by
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such Conviction and is advised to Appeal against the same
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Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray
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your Worships will be to pleased to permit
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him to enter his appeal is that the same
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may be heard at this present General
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Session of the Peace in and for the said
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County And that your Worships will
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be pleased and to appoints a convenient day
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for hearing and determining the same
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And as in duty bound will
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ever pray Etc
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