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
Decemberlast convicted by
Nathaniel Bland< no role >
Esquire
one of the
Justices of the Peace
for the said County of Middlesex
upon an Information Exhibited and
prosecuted by
William Clarks< no role >
Charging that on the twenty third
day of November last 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
to
Bristol
in the County of Somerset
agreeable to an Act of Parliament passed in the
twenty fifth year of the Reign of his present Majesty "entitled" an Act
for repealing the duties on Licenses taken out by persons letting Horses
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
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 not from the City of London
to the Cities of to attend Bristol
in the County of Somerset
without marking or a
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 the large
and legible Character in Letters of a Colour distinct from the Colour
of the Carriage each Letter at least one Inch in length
That