Thomas Davis< no role > Appellant
and
Theophilus Bell< no role > is Gentleman who sues
as well for our sovereign Lord the King
as for himself}
Respondent

Sir

Take Notice that I shall appeal at the next General Quarter
Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the County of Middlesex at the sessions House
on Clerkenwell Green against the Conviction made by Joseph Faikney< no role > Esquires
one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace for the County of Middlesex on the Sixteenth
Day of August last against me on an Information said to be exhibited before
the said Justice by you the above named Respondent alledging that said on
the Second Day of July last unlawfully expose to sale and sell to one Thomas
White< no role > a certain Inclosure containing a certain cosmetick called carmine to wit at
[..] or for the price of Six pence the said Carmine being a Cosmetick subject to the
Stamp Duty of one penny imposed and payable to his present Majesty by Virtue
of a certain Act of Parliament made and passed in the Twenty Sixth Year of the
Regin of his present Majesty entitled an act for granting to his Majesty certain
Stamp duties on Perfumery Hair powder and other Articles therein mentioned and
on Licences to be taken out by persons utterring or vending the same without
the Cover Wrapper or label directed by the said Act to be pasted stuck fastned
or affixed to the said Inclosure containing the said Cosmetick called Carmine pro [..]
to the sale or exposing to sale thereof Being well and Sufficiently pasted stuck fastned or affixed to
the said Inclosure and Marked and stamped with the mark or stamp provide
to be used by the Commissioners appointed to manage the duties charged
on stamped [..] vellum Parchment and Paper to Denote the said duty
of one penny in such manner as in and by the said Act is Directed and
required And Further Take Notice that Ishall [..] before the said
Sessionshave caused a proper recognizance to be entered into to prosecute my [..]
appeal with effect Dated the Nineteenth day of october 1791

To Mr Theophilus Bellis< no role >
the above Respondent}

Yours Etc
Thomas Davis< no role >