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January 1794

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MIDDLESEX .


AT the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our
Lord the King, holden in and for the County of Middlesex , at
the Session, House for the said County,()
on Monday in the Week next after the Feast of the Epiphany (to wit) the ThirteenthDay of January in
the Thirty FourthYear of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord GEORGE the Third, King of Great Britain, Etc. Before
William Mainwaring< no role > Rupert Clarke< no role > , John Hole< no role > , John Bond< no role >
Esquires , and others their Fellows, Justices of our said Lord the
King, assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid; and
also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other
Misdemeanours committed in the same County.

Whereas Edward Fromont< no role > of Thatcham in the County of Berks Inn holder
Hath at this present Session Exhibited his Petition and Appeal setting forth That He was on
or about the Twenty first day of December last Convicted by Nathaniel Bland< no role > Esqr . one of the
Justices of the Peace for the said County upon an Information Exhibited and Prosecuted by William
Clarke
< no role > charging that on the twenty seventh day of November The Petitioner Edward Fromont
being a Person Licenced 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 and Bristol in the County
of Somerset agreeable to an Act of Parliament passed in the Twenty Fifth Year of the Reign of
this present Majesty intitled "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 Post and by time and on large 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 seventh day of November aforesaid in the Parish of
Ealing in the County of Middlesex aforesaid being so licenced as aforesaid use & employ
a Certain Coach 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 and Bristol in the County of Somerset without marking or painting on a
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 on large
and legiable Character in Letters of a Colour distinct from the Colour of the Carriage each Letter at
least One Inch in length whereby the Petitioner conceived himself aggrieved Now upon
hearing the said Appeal and what hath been alledged by the respective Parties and the
Counsel in and concerning the Premises It is Ordered that the same Conviction be
and the same is hereby Quashed

By the Court




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