To the Worshipful His Majestys Justices
the Peace for the County of Middlesex assembled
at the General Quarter Sessions 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 Holden

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 Twenty firstday of November last
your Petitioner Edward Fromont being a person licensed to
Keep a Certain Coach to be employed 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 Citys 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 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 houses let to time for travelling post and
by time Did upon the said Twenty firstday 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 in Letters of a Colour
distinct from the Colour of the Carriage each Letter at least one inch in
length