To the Worshipful His Majestys 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 of Edward Fromont< no role > of Thatcham
in the County of Berks Inn holden

Sheweth

That your Petitioner was on or about the Twenty fifth day of
Novemberlast 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
Seventeenthday of November last your Petitioner Edward
Fromont being a person licensed to keep a Certain in 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 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 Licences taken out by persons letting Horses for the
purpose of Travelling Post and on Horses let to hire for travelling
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 Seventeenth 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 an 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 Letter
of a Colour distinct from the Colour of the Carriage each Letter at least
One Inch in length