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, (by adjournment)
on Thursday the Twenty third Day of October in the
Twenty eighth Year of the Reign of our Soverign Lord
GEORGE the Third, King of Great Britain Etc, Before William
Mainwaring< no role > William Bleamire< no role > David Walker< no role > Thomas Gordon< 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 Jonas Freemantle< no role > and Thomas Brooks< no role > of Grays Inn Lane in the
said County of Middlesex Post Master Have at this present Session Exhibited their Petition
and Appeal setting forth That they were in or about the 26th. day of June last Convicted in
the Penalty of Ten Pounds by William Hyde< no role > Esquires one of His Majestys Justices for the said
County For that they being Persons Licenced to let Horses to hire agreeable to an Act of
Parliament passed in the Twenty fifth Year of his present Majesty intitled An Act for
Repealing the Duties on Licences taken out by persons letting Horses for the purpose of
travelling Post Etc Did on the 16th. day of June 1788 let out to hire Two Horses by the
Stage to be used in Travelling Post in drawing a certain Carriage with Four Wheels
commonly called a Post Chaise from the Parish of St. Andrew Holborn to Chipping Barnet
in the County of Hertford and did charge the Traveller a specific Sum by the Stage and
not after the usual or any certain Rate per Mile and did issue a Ticket called a
Stamp Office Ticket with the Number of Miles expressed thereon but did not express
on the said Ticket the Sum of Money charged to such Traveller and so received for the
hire of such Horses as aforesaid whereby the Petitioners conceived themselves aggrieved
Now the said Appeal coming on to be heard and the said William Hyde< no role > Esquire being
present here in Court and being solemnly called to come forth and support the said
Conviction but declining and refusing so to do and no other Person appearing for
the purpose It is Ordered that the said Conviction be and the same is hereby
Quashed

By the Court
Selby