MIDDLESEX
.
AT the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our
Lord the King, holden in and for the County of Middlesex
, at
the S ession-House for the said County, ()
on Monday in the Week next after the feast of the Epiphany to wit the ThirteenthDay of Januaryin
the Thirty FourthYear 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 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 Fourteenth day of October 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
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 Licences taken out by Persons
"letting Horses for the purpose of Travelling Post and on Horses let to hire for Travelling Post and by
"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 upon the Fourteenth 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 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 Birmingham in the County of Warwcik without marking or
painting or causing to be marked or painted on the outside Pannell of each door of the said
Coach before he 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
hearing 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 Correction be and the
same is hereby Quashed
By the Court