To the Worshipful His Majestys Justices of the
Peace for the County of Middlesex assembled at the
General Quarter Session of the Peace for the said County
on Clerkenwell Green on the thirteenth day of
January 1794

The Humble Petition and Appeal of John William< no role > of the Bull
and mouth Inn Bull and Mouth Street in the City of London
Inn holder

Sheweth

That your Petitioner was on or about the Sixteenth day of
Novemberlast convicted by Nathaniel Bland< no role > Esquire one of the
Justices of the Peace for the said County upon an Information Exhibited
and Prosecuted by William Butterfield< no role > Charging that on the Eleventh
Day of October lastyour Petitioner John William< no role > being a person
licensed 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 City of Worcester
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 for travelling post and by time Did upon the said Eleventh
day of Octoberaforesaid in the Parish of Ealing
in the County of Middlesex aforesaid being so licensed 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 City of Worcester
without marking or painting or Causing to be marked or painted on
the Outside Pannel of each Door of the said Coach before He the said
John William< no role > used the samefor the purpose aforesaid his Christian
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