MIDDLESEX .

AT the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our
Lord the King, holden in and for the County of Middlesex , at
the Session House for the said County, ()
on Monday in the week next after the feast of the Epiphany to wit the ThirteenthDay of January in
the Thirty Fourth Year of the Reign of our S overeign
Lord GEORGE the Third, King of Great Britain, Etc. Before
William Mainwaring< no role > , Rupert Clarke< no role > , John Hole< no role > , John Bond< no role >
Esquires , and others their Fellows, Justices of our said Lord the
King, assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid; and
also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other
Misdemeanours committed in the same County.

Whereas John Willan< no role > of the Bull and Mouth Inn Bull and Mouth Street in the City
of London Innholder Hath at this present Session Exhibited his Petition and Appeal setting
forth That He 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 on the Eleventh day of
October last The Petitioner being a person licenced 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 repealing the duties on Licences
"taken out by Persons letting Horses for the Purpose of Travelling Post an on Horses let
"to hire for Travelling Post and by time and on Stage Coaches; and for granting other duties in
" [..] thereof, and also additional Duties on Horses let to hire for Travelling Post and by time"
Did upon the said Eleventh day of October aforesaid in the Parish of Ealing in the County of
Middlesex aforesaid being so licensed as aforesaid use and employ a certain Coach as a Public
Stage Coach fro 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 without marking
or Painting or causing to be marked or painted on the outside Pannell of each door of the said Coach
before he the said John Willan< no role > used the same for the purpose aforesaid his Christian Name in
large and legible Characters in Letters of a Colour distinct from the Colour of the Carriage each
Letter at least one Inch in Length: Whereby the Petitioner conceived himself aggrieved. Now
upon having the said Appeal and what hath been alledged by the respective Parties and their
Counsel in and concerning the Premises, It is Ordered that the said Conviction be and the
same is hereby Quashed

By the Court