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 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 Bullerfield< no role > Charging that on the
fourteenth day of Octoberyour 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 there to and from different places with in the Kingdom
of Great Britain to wit from the City of London
to Birmingham in the County of Warwick
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 Licenses taken out by persons letting Horses for the
purpose of travelling post and on Horses letter to hire for travelling post
and by time and on Stage Coaches, and for Granting other Duties
in large thereof, And also Additional Duties on horses let to hire for
travelling post and by time Did upon the fourteenth
Day of Octoberaforesaid 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
there to and from different places within the Kingdom of Great Britain
to art from the City of London to Birmingham
in the County of Warwickwithout 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 same for the
purpose aforesaid his Christian name in large and legible Characters in
Leders of a Colour distinct from the Colour of the Carriage each Letter at Cast
one inch in length