To the Worshipful His Majesty's
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 Innholder

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 November 1793your Petitioner John William< no role >
being a Person Licensed 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 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 Repeating
the Duties on Licences taken out by Persons letting Horses for
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 Eleventhday of Novemberaforesaid
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
in the County of Worcester without Marking
or Painting or Causing to be marked or Painted on the outside
Pannel of each Door of th said Coach before He the said John
William< no role > used the same for the purpose aforesaid his Christian
and surName together with the name of the place from whence the said Coach was set out and to which it was going in large and legible Characters in Letters of a Colour
distinct from the Colour of the Carriage each at least one
Inch in length