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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 Januaryin
the Thirty Fourth Year 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 other 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 Innholder
Hath at this present Session Exhibited his Petition and Appeal setting forth That he was
on or about the Twenty fifth day of November 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 by William Clarke< no role > charging that on the Nineteenth 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 repeating 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 an by time" Did upon the
Nineteenth day of November aforesaid being so licenced 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 pannell of each door of the said Coach before he used the same for the
propose 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, whereby the Petitioner conceived himself
aggrieved Now upon hearing the said Appeal and what hath been alledged by the respective
Parties and their Course in and concerning the Premises It is Ordered that the said
Conviction be and the same is hereby Quashed.




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