John Hodgson

Nicholas Jerome Paris of  Liverpool.

in the county of Lancaster Dancing Master

and John Hodgson of Liverpool a foresaid Gentleman

severally make oath and say and first deponent 

Nicholas Jerome Paris for himself saith that the contents 

of the parchment writing here unto annexed purporting 

to be a petition to the things most excellent majesty

from this deponent and signed by him this deponent are true and this deponent John Hodgson for himself saith that he was present and did see the said

Nicholas Jerome Paris sign the said petiton herunto annexed and that the name `Nicholas Jerome Paris `

therets subscribed is of the proper handwriting of the said 

Nicholas jerome Paris and that the name J Hodgson 

thereto subscribed as the witness attesting the execution 

thereof is of the proper handwriting of the deponent John 
Hodgson and the deponent John Hodgson further saith 
that he had received instructions ffrom the said Nicholas 
Jerome Paris to prepare a conveyance to him of a piece 
of land situate in a certain street caleed Hardman 
street in Liverpool aforesaid held under the corporation 
of Liverpool for lives and years which the said
Nicholas Jerome Paris has contracted to purchase 
from one Peter Mainwaring Whitnall of Liverpool
aforesaid school Master but by reason of the said
Nicholas Jerome Paris being an alien born he cannot 
take a legal conveyance of the said estate unless his 
Majestys Letters of Denization are granted him


The deponents Nicholas Jerome 
Paris and John Hodgson severaly 
sworn at Liverpool aforesaid the
twelfth day of March 1824
before me