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 November last 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 your 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 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 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 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 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 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 Letters at least one Inch in length