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To His Majesty's
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The Humble Petition of
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Francis Calvart
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioner was on or about the 7th day
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of October instant convicted in the Penalty £10 by
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one of his Majesty's Justices for the said County for that your
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Petitioner being a Person licensed to let out. Horses to hire for the
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purposes travelling Post by the Mile & from Stage to Stage and
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residing within 5 Miles of the Head Office for Stamps did not
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nor would on the 23d. & 24th days of July 1788 being the Times appointed
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for that purpose by the Commissioners for putting in Excution a
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Certain Act of Parliament made & passed in the 25th Year of the Reign
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of his present Majesty's Intitled An Act for repealing Duties on
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Licences taken out by Persons letting Horses for the purposes of
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travelling Post Etc. (at the Public Notice thereof was given in
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the Gazette) bring in or deliver to
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Person appointed by the said Commissioners for the purpose of
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receiving the same at the Office appointed for the reception
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of the Duty on Post Horses the Accounts that is to say the
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Stamp Office Weekly Accounts in that Behalf directed in and by
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the said Act of Parliament for the 4 Weeks ending on the Saturday
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preceeding such days of delivery but therein failed.
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And your Petitioner thinking himself aggrieved thereby
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humbly begs leave to appeal from such Conviction
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And that you will please to appoint a Day in the
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And your Petitioner will ever pray Etc.
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