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January 1794

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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 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 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 Seventh 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 seventeenth 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 Warwick 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
Premise It is Ordered that the said Conviction be and the same is hereby Quashed

By the Court




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