To the Worshipful His Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex Assembled at the General Quarter
Sessions 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 fifth
day of November-last 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 Clarke< no role >
charging that on the Nineteenthday of November last
your Petitioner being a Person licensed to keep a Certain Coach
to be employed as a Public 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 andto Bristol in the County of Somerset
agreeable to an Act of Parliament passed in the Twenty
fifth year of the Reign of his present Majestys intitled an Act for
Repealing the Duties on Licenses taken out by Persons letting
Horses for the purpose of Travelling Post and on Horses 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 Nineteenthday of November
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 a Painted on the outside Pannell 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 as a Colour distinct
from the Colour of the Carriage each Letter at Least One Inch in
length

That