To the Worshipful His Majestys Justices
of the Peace for the County of Middlesex assembled as
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 on the County of Berks Inn Holder

Sheweth

That your Petitioner was on or about the twenty first day of
Decemberlast convicted by Nathaniel Bland< no role > Esquire one of the Justices
of the peace for the said County of Middlesex upon on Information Exhibited and
prosecuted by William Clarke< no role > charging that on the twenty fifth
day of November last your Petitioner Edward Fromont being a
person licensed to keep on 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 ofParliament
Parliament passed in the twenty fifth year of the Resign of his
Present Majesty entitled an Act for repeating the Duties on Licenses
taken out by persons letting Horses for the purpose of travelling part and
on Horses let to hire of travelling part an 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 fifthday of
November aforesaid in the Parish of Eatingin the County
of Middlesex aforesaid being so licensed as aforesaid used and employ a
Certain Coach as a Publick Stage Coach for the purpose of Conveying
Passengers for Hire to and from different places William the Kingdom of
Great Britain to wit from the City of London to the Cities of Bath Law 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 Fromont
used the same for the purpose aforesaid his Christian and Sur Name in large and
legible Characters in Letters of a Colour distinct from the Colour of the
Carriage each Letter at least one Inch in length