MIDDLESEX .

AT the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our
Lord the King, holden in and for the County of Middlesex , as
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 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 That he 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 Seventeenth day of November last. The Petitioner being a person licenced to
keep a certain Coach to be employed as a public Stage Coach for the purpose of Conveying passenger
for hiretoand 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 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 and by
"time" Did upon the said Seventeenth 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
publick Stage Coach for the purpose of conveying Passengers for hire 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 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