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 Seventeenth 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 Hire
to and from different places within the Kingdom of Great Britain to wit
from the City of London to the City
of Worcesteragreeable 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 let to hire for travelling Post and by time 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
Seventeenth 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 Passangers 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 Out side 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 Character in Letter
of a Colour distinct from the Colour of the Carriage each Letter at least one John in length