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January 1794

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MIDDLESEX .


AT the General Quarter Session 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 Januaryin
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 he 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 Innholder 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 on Information Exhibited and prosecuted by William Clarke< no role >
Charging that on the Twenty third day of November last the petitioner being a person licenced to keep
a certain 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 Majestys 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 for travelling post and by time" Did upon the said Twenty third 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 causing to be marked or 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 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 Petitioners 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
same is hereby Quashed

By the Court




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