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<p n="62"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50934_geo43">MIDDLESEX</rs>
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AT the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our<lb></lb>
Lord the King, holden in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50934_geo44">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, at<lb></lb>
the Session-House for the said County, ()<lb></lb>
on Monday in the week next after the feast of the Epiphany to wit the Ninth Day of Januaryin<lb></lb>
the Thirty SeventhYear of the Regin of our Sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord GEORGE the Third, king of Great Britain, Etc. Before<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50934_n62-1">William Mainwaring</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50934_n62-2">William Bleamire</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50934_n62-3">John Bond</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50934_n62-4">David Dean</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Esquires, and others their Fellows, Justices of our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid; and<lb></lb>
also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses,and other<lb></lb>
Misdemeanours committed in the same County.</p>
<p n="63">Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50934_n63-1">Coulson Johnson</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50934_geo45">Knightsbridge</rs>
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Did at the last General quarter Session of the<lb></lb>
peace held in and for this County Exhibit his Petition and Appeal setting forth That the Petitioner was<obscured></obscured>
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Coach master residing at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50934_geo46">Knightsbridge</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50934_geo47">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and employed among other Carriages<obscured></obscured>
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Coach Licenced by the Commissioners for regulating Hackney Coaches and Chairs No. 21. for which he paid<lb></lb>
to Government a duty of £26 per ammun. That the Petitioner was on or about the 18th. day of August last<lb></lb>
Summoned before <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50934_n63-2">John Spiller</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50934_occ14">Esquire</rs>
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one of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50934_occ15">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for teh said County for<lb></lb>
keeping and employing a certain Coach as a Public Stage Coach for the purpose of conveying Passengers for<lb></lb>
hire to and from different places withn the Kingdom of Great Britain to wit from <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50934_geo48">piccadilly</rs>
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to Kew Bridge<lb></lb>
without having as was alledged first obtained a Licence for that purpose in manner preserbed by the<lb></lb>
Statute in that Case made and provided. That it appeared in Evidence before the said Magistrate that<lb></lb>
the Coach so complained of for having been worked as a Stage Coach within the distance aforesaid was<lb></lb>
one and the same identical Coach for which the Commissioners for Licenceing and Regulating Hackney<lb></lb>
Coaches and Chairs had granted the Petitioner a Licence to work within certain Districts under their<lb></lb>
Authority or Jurisdiction and for which he paid the said duty of £26. per Annum that such Coach was<lb></lb>
worked within such district only. That the said Magistrate notwithstanding such Evidence Convicied<lb></lb>
the petitioner of the Offence statute such Summons and ordered him to pay the penalty imposed by the said<lb></lb>
Act when the Petition entered into a Recognizance in order to Appeal against such Conviction whereby<lb></lb>
the Petitioner conceived himself aggrieved: which Appeal stood duly adjournment until this Session<lb></lb>
Now upon hearing the said Appeal and what hath been alledged by the respective parties their Counsel<lb></lb>
and Witness in and concerning the premises It is Ordered that the said Conviction be and the<lb></lb>
same is hereby Quashed</p>
<p n="64">By the Court.</p>
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