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 Epippany to wit the Ninth Day of January in
the Thirty seventh Year of the Regin of our Sovereign
Lord GEORGE the third, King of Great Britain, Etc. Before
William Mainwaring< no role > , William Bleamire< no role > , John Bond< no role >
David Dean< 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 Lunn< no role > of New Street Knights bridge did at the last General Quarter Session of the Peace
held in and for this County Exhibit his Petition and appeal setting forth That the petitioners was a Coach
master residing in New Street Knightsbridge in the County of Middlesex and employed among other Carriages
a Coach licenced by the Commissioners for regulating Hackney Coaches and Chairs No. 487. for which he paid to
Government a duty of £26 P Annum: That the petitioner was on or about the 18th day of August last
Surmmoned before John Spiller< no role > Esqr one of the Majestys Justices of the Peace for the said County for keeping and
employing 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 to Piccadilly from Sulham without having
as was alledged first obtained a Licence for that purpose in manner prescribed by the Statute in that
case made and provided. That it appeared in Evidence before the said Majestrante that the Coach so
complained of for having been worked as a stage coach within the distance aforesaid was one and the
same identical Coach for which the Commissioners for Licensing and regulating Hackney Coaches and Chairs
had granted the petitioner a Licence to work within certain districts under their Authority or Jurisdiction
and for which he paid the same duty of £26 per Annum and that such Coach was worked within such
district Only. That the said Magistante not with standing such Evidence convicted the Petitioner of the Office
stated in such Summons and ordered him to pay the penalty imposed by the said Act when the Petitioner
himself aggrieved: which said appeal stood duly adjourned untill this Session Now upon hearing
the said appeal and what hath been alledged by the respective parties their Counsel and Witnesses in
and concerning the Premises It is Ordered that the said Conviction be and the same is hereby
Quashed

By the Court