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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 on the Week next after the feast of the Epiphany to wit the ThirteenthDay of Januaryin
the Thirty FourthYear of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord GEORGE the Third, King of 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 of Middlesex upon an Information Exhibited and prosecuted
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 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 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 and for travelling Post and by
"time" Did upon the said Twenty Fifth day of November aforesaid in the Parish of Ealing
in the County of Middlesex aforesaid being so licenced as aforesaid use and 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 or [..]
he used the same for the purpose aforesaid his Christian and Surname 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; whereby the Petitioner conceived himself aggrieved, Now upon hearing the
said Appeal and what hath been alledged by the respective parties and their Counsel in
and concerning the premises. It is Ordered that the said Conviction be and the
same is hereby Quashed.

By the Court




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