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To his Majesty's
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The humble Petition and Appeal of
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Sheweth
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Thomas Burdus
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Majesty's
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agt. your Petitioner
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by
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That your Petitioner upon the
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22d: day of July last past
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at
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the said Parish of St: Martin in the Fields in the City & Liberty of
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did drive A Cart loaded with and Containing A Quantity of Coals exceeding 8
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Bushels to wit the Quantity of 20 Bushels from a place Called
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aforesd. within the said City &
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Liberty of
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the duty of 4d: by the Chaldron not being the paid and
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without your Petitioner's having any Paper Writing or Tickett signed by
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any Principal Land Coal Meter & Counter signed by any labouring Coal
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Tickett therewith as is directed by an Act of Parliament made in the 19th:
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Year of the Reign of his present Majesty intitled An Act more Effectually
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to prevent the Frauds & Abuses Committed in the Admeasurement of
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& that part of the Dutchy
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of Lancaster adjoyning thereto & the several Parishes of
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as lies in the
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That the Matter of the sd. Complaint Came on to be heard
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before the said Mr. Burdns on the
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1st: day of August last
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past when the said
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Mr. Burdns was pleased to give Judgement of Conviction agt: your Petitioner
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for the said Offence And that your Petitioner should forfeit the Sum of five
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pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain One Moiety thereof to the use
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of the sd.
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& the other Moiety thereof to the Use of the Poor
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of the
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Offence was Alledged to have been Committed.
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Wherefore and in Regard your Petitioner thinks himself
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aggreived by the sd. Judgment of Conviction given agt. him as aforesd.
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J: Mackay
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Sollr
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the Appellant
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Your Petitioner therefore most humbly Appeals
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from the sd. Judgement of Conviction to your Worships
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in this present General Quarter Session of the Peace
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Assembled (being the next General Quarter Session
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of the Peace held for the
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after the
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said Conviction) And your Petitioner humbly prays
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that your Worships will be pleased to reverse the
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sd. Judgment of Conviction given agt. your Petitioner
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as aforesaid & Acquitt your Petitioner thereof
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And Also Award to your Petitioner according to
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the Directions of the sd. Act of Parliament such
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reasonable Costs to be paid by the said
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upon whose Information or Prosecution
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the sd Conviction was founded or made As to
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your Worships in your Discretion shall seem meet
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And your Petitioner (as in duty bound) shall Ever pray Etc.
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