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To the Right Honble The
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for the same City in their General Quarter Session of
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the Peace assembled.
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The humble Petition of
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Thomas Townsend
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner was on the Eighteenth day of July last Past Convicted
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by
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Knight Mayor of the
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and one of
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His Majesty
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's Justices
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of the Peace for the said City and Liberties thereof upon a certain Information of one Henry
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then lately before exhibited to the said Justice against your said Petitioner, for
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That your said Petitioner on the 29th. day of April then last past not regarding the Statutes aforesaid
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Lord the King did keep
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a Coach or Carriage commonly called a Diligence, for the purpose of conveying Passengers for
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hire to and from different places within the Shingdon of Great Britain namely from the
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Inn in
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Gracechurch Street
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in the said City to Bromley in the
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and did let out the same for such purpose without having first obtained a Licence under
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the Hands of Two of
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's Commissioner for managing the Duties on Stamped
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Vellum Parchment and Paper or some person duly authorized by them agreeable to the
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directions of a certain Act of Parliament made and passed in the Twentieth year of His
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present Majesty's Reigh intituled "An Act for repealing an Act made in the Nineteenth
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year of the Reign of HIs present Majesty intituled "An Act for granting unto His
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Majesty Certain Duties on Licences to be taken out by all persons letting Horses to"
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"hire for travelling in the manner therein mentioned and certain Duties on all Horses"
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"let to hire for the purpose of travelling post and by Time and upon certain Carriages
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therein mentioned and for granting other duties in lieu thereof" against the form of the
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Statute in that Case made and provided.
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That the said Justice did therefore declare and adjudge that your said Petitoner
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had forfeited the Sum of Two pounds of lawful money of Great Britain for the Offence
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aforesaid to be distributed as the Law directs according to the form of the Statute in the
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Case made and provided.
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That your Petitioner conceiving himself Aggrieved by the said Conviction
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and adjudication of the said Justice
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Oath doth therefore
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humbly appeals
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Honble Court
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against the same and prays such Relief in the premises as to this
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Honble Court shall seem meet
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And your Petitioner as in Duty bound shall ever pray
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T. Townsend
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