To the Worshipful His Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex Assembled at the General Quarter
Session of the Peace for the said County on
Clerkenwell Green on the Thirteenth Day of
January 1794

The Humble Petition and Appeal of
Edward Fromont< no role > of Thatcham in the County of Berks Inn holder

Sheweth

That your Petitioner was on or about the twenty first day
of December last convicted by Nathaniel Bland< no role > Esquire one
of the Justices of the Peace for the said County upon an
Information Exhibited and prosecuted by William Clarke< no role >
charging that on the twenty seventh day of November your
Petitioner Edward Fromontbeing a person licensed to keep
a certain Coach to be employed as a Publick Stage Coach
for the purpose of Conveying passengers for Hire to and from
different Places within the Kingdom of Great Britain to
wit from the City of London to the Cities of Bath and Bristol
toin the County of Somerset agreeable
to an Act of Parliament passed in the Twenty fifth year of the
Reign of his present Majesty untitled an Act for Repeating
the Duties on Licences taken out by Persons letting Houses
for the purpose of Travelling Post and on Houses let to Hire
for Travelling Post and by time and on Stage Coaches and
for Granting other Duties in lien thereof And also Additional
Duties on Horses let to hire for Travelling Post and by time
Did upon the said twenty seventh day of November
aforesaid in the Parish of Ealing in the County of Middlesex aforesaid being so licensed as aforesaid use and employ a
Certain Coach as a Publick Stage Coach for the purpose of
Conveying passengers for Hire to and from different Places
within the Kingdom of Great Britain to wit from the
City of London to the Cities of Bath and Bristol in the County
of Somerset without marking or Painting
or Causing to be Marked or Painted on the outside Pannel
of each Door of the said Coach before He the said Edward
Fromontused the same for the purpose aforesaid
his Christian and sur name in large and legible Characters us
Letters of a Colour distinct from the Colour of the Carriage
each Letter at Least one Inch in length

That