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<p n="60">To the Worshipful his Majesty <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50942_occ7">Justices<lb></lb>
of the peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50942_geo45">County of Middlesex</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50942_geo45" type="placeName" value="County of Middlesex"></interp>
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<lb></lb>
Assembled at the Adjourned General Quarter<lb></lb>
Session of the Peace holden in and for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50942_geo46">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on Monday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50942_date2">23d.<lb></lb>
day of October 1797</rs>
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</p>
<p n="61">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50942_n61-1">Elisha Ambler</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50942_n61-1" type="surname" value="Ambler"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50942_n61-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50942_geo47">Isleworth</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50942_geo48">County of Middlesex</rs>
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</p>
<p n="62"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioner was on or about the<lb></lb>
21st. day of July last past summoned to appear before<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50942_n62-1">Samuel Tolfrey</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50942_n62-1" type="surname" value="Tolfrey"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50942_n62-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50942_occ8">Esqr</rs>
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. or before such the Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace as should be Sitting at the Public Office in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50942_geo49">Bow Street</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50942_geo49" type="placeName" value="Bow Street"></interp>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50942_geo50">Covent Garden</rs>
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or Monday the 24th. day of<lb></lb>
July last to Answer for that your Petitioner being<lb></lb>
a Collector of the Tolls at a certain <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50942_geo51">Turnpike Gate</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50942_geo51" type="placeName" value="Turnpike Gate"></interp>
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<lb></lb>
called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50942_geo52">Isleworth</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50942_geo52" type="placeName" value="Isleworth"></interp>
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Gate in the said County Did on<lb></lb>
Saturday the fifteenth then Instant take of and from <lb></lb>
one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50942_n62-2">Moses Williams</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50942_n62-2" type="given" value="Moses"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50942_n62-2" type="surname" value="Williams"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50942_n62-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
a Greater Toll (to wit the Sum<lb></lb>
of Four Pence) for a six Inch Wheel Cart drawn<lb></lb>
by two Horses passing through the said Turnpike<lb></lb>
then what is allowed by Law Contrary to the<lb></lb>
Statute Etc.</p>
<p n="63">That Your Petitioner appeared at the<lb></lb>
Public Office in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50942_geo53">Bow Street</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50942_geo53" type="placeName" value="Bow Street"></interp>
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aforesaid pursuant to<lb></lb>
the said Summons And was convicted in the Penalty<lb></lb>
of Forty shillings for the said Offence by the Sitting<lb></lb>
Magistrate Six <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50942_n63-1">William Addington</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50942_occ9">Knight</rs>
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</p>
<p n="64">That your Petitioner at the time he was<lb></lb>
so convicted thought and still thinketh himself<lb></lb>
aggrieved by the Judgement of the said Justice<lb></lb>
in as much as your Petitioner was Not Guilty of</p>
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