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<p n="42">To the Worshipful His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50939_occ11">Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo45">County of Middlesex</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50939_geo45" type="placeName" value="County of Middlesex"></interp>
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in their General<lb></lb>
Quarter Session of the peace Assembled</p>
<p n="43">The Humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50939_n43-58">William Husband</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50939_n43-58" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo46">Cockspur<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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in the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo47">Saint<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Martin in the Fields</rs>
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in their the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo48">Liberty of<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo49">County of Middlesex</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50939_geo49" type="placeName" value="County of Middlesex"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50939_geo49" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
Postmaster</p>
<p n="44"> <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_n44-1">Henry James Pye</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50939_occ12">Esquire</rs>
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of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50939_occ13">Justices of<lb></lb>
the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo50">County of Middlesex</rs>
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bearing date the eighth<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>
one thousand seven hundred and eighty five to wit on the Sixth<lb></lb>
Day of April in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred<lb></lb>
and Ninety Seven being a person duly Licenced Let Horses to hire<lb></lb>
agreable to an Act of Parliament passed in the twenty fifth year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of his present Majesty enfield "An Act for repealing<lb></lb>
"the duties on Licenses taken out by persons Letting Horses for the<lb></lb>
"Purpose of travelling post and on Horses let to Hire for travelling<lb></lb>
"post and by time and on Stage Coaches and for granting other<lb></lb>
"Duties in Lien 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_geo51">Saint Martin in the Fields</rs>
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in this <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo52">Westminster</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50939_geo52" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo53">County of Middlesex</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
let out for hire divers to wit two horses to draw a certain Carring<lb></lb>
with four wheels called a post & house by the Stage to be used<lb></lb>
and which were accordingly used in travelling post that is to say<lb></lb>
from the parish of Saint<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Martin in the Field within the liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo54">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo55">County of Middlesex</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50939_geo55" type="placeName" value="County of Middlesex"></interp>
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aforesaid to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo56">Woolwich</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo57">County of Kent</rs>
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and did deliver or Cause to be delivered a certain<lb></lb>
ticket called a <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50939_geo58">Stamp Office</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50939_geo58" type="placeName" value="Stamp Office"></interp>
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ticket to the hirer of the said<lb></lb>
horses but Did Insert in the said Ticket a less Number of Miles<lb></lb>
than the number of Miles Charged to such hirer that is to say<lb></lb>
did insert in the said Ticket Nine Mills but did charge<lb></lb>
such hirer Twelve Mills for the said Stage whereby the said<lb></lb>
hirer was Compelled to and did pay for a greater Number of<lb></lb>
Mills than the Number of Mills Inserted in the said Ticket<lb></lb>
that</p>
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