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 EleventhDay 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
High Wiccombe
in the County of Buckingham
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 Posts and on Horses let to hire for Travelling Post and by
time and Stage Coaches, And for Granting other Duties Inn lien thereof
And also Additional Duties on Horses let to hire for Travelling post and
by time Did upon the Eleventhday of October aforesaid in
the
Parish of Ealing
in the County of Middlesex
aforesaid
being so licensed as aforesaid and employ a Certain Coach 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 High Wiccombein the County of
Buckingham
and without marking or Pointing or Caused, 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 Character in Letters
of a Colour distinct from the Colour of the Carriage each Letter at
least one Inch in length