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 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 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 >
Esqr
.
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 second day of October last past 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 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 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 second 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 the
City of Worcester
in the County
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 and sur name together with the Name of the place from
whence the said Coach set out and to which it was going 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 hearving 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