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<p n="31">To the Worshipful his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50939_occ7">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo30">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General<lb></lb>
Quarter Session of the peace Assembled</p>
<p n="32">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50939_n32-47">William Husband</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo31">Cockspur Street</rs>
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in the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo32">Saint Martin in the Fields</rs>
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within<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo33">liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo34">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Postmaster</p>
<p n="33"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That by a Certain Conviction under the Hand and<lb></lb>
Seal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50939_n33-1">Henry James Pye</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50939_occ8">Esquire</rs>
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one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50939_occ9">Justices of<lb></lb>
the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo35">County of Middlesex</rs>
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bearing date the eights<lb></lb>
day of June now last past your Petitioner was Convicted in the<lb></lb>
Penalty of Ten pounds for that he after the first day of August<lb></lb>
1785 to wit on the eighth day of April in the Year of our Lord<lb></lb>
1797 being a Person duly Licensed to Let House to Hire agreable<lb></lb>
to an Act of Parliament passed in the Seventy Fifth year of the<lb></lb>
Reign of his present Majesty entitled "An Act for Repealing the<lb></lb>
"duties on Licenses taken out by Persons letting Houses for the<lb></lb>
"purpose of Travelling post and on Horses let to Hire for Travelling<lb></lb>
"post and by time and or stage Coaches and for granting other<lb></lb>
"duties in Liew thereof and also additional duties on Horses let<lb></lb>
"to hire for Travelling post and by time Did within the Kingdom<lb></lb>
of Great Britain to wit at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo36">Saint Martin in the<lb></lb>
Fields</rs>
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within the Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo37">Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo38">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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aforesaid let out for Hire divers to wit two Horses<lb></lb>
to Draw a certain Carriage with four Wheels called a post Chair<lb></lb>
by the Stage to be used and which were accordingly used in<lb></lb>
Travelling post that is to say, from the parish of Saint Martin<lb></lb>
in the Fields within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo39">Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo40">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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aforesaid to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo41">Woolwich</rs>
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in the County of Rent<lb></lb>
and did deliver or Cause to be delivered to the Fire of the said<lb></lb>
Horses a certain Ticket called a <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo42">Stamp Office</rs>
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Ticket, but did insent<lb></lb>
in the said Ticket a less number of Mill than number of<lb></lb>
Miles</p>
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