MIDDLESEX .

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our,
Lord the Kind, holden in and for the County of Middlesex , at
the Session-House for the said County, ()
on Monday in the Week next after the feast of the Epiphany to wit the Ninth Day of January in
the Thirty seventhYear of the Regin of our Sovereign
Lord GEORGE the Third, King of Great Britain, Etc. Before
William Mainwaring< no role > , William Bleamire< no role > , John Bond< no role >
David Dean< 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 James Little< no role > of Newport Street Did at the last General Quarter Session of the Peace
held in and for this County Exhibit his petition and Appeal setting forth That the Petitioner was a
Coachmaster residing at the Plough Newport Street in the County of Middlesex and employed among
other carriages a Coach Licenced by the Commissioners for regulating Hackney Coaches and Chairs
No. 545 for which he paid to Government a duty of £26 per Annum. That the Petitioner was on or
about the 18th. day of August last Summoned before John Spiller< no role > Esqr. one of His Majestys Justices of
the peace for the said County for keeping and employing a certain Coach as a public Stage Coach for
the purpose of conveying Passengers for here to and from different places within the Kingdom of Great
Britain to wit to Piccadilly from Fulham without having as was alledged first obtained a Licence for
that purpose in manner prescribed by the Statute in that Case made and provided. That it
appeared in Evidence before the said Magistrate that the Coach so complained of for having been
worked as a Stage Coach within the distance aforesaid was one the same identical Coach for which
the Commissioners for Licencing and Regulating Hackney Coaches and Chairs had granted the
Petitioner a Licence to work within certain districts under their Authority or Jurisdiction and for
which he paid the said duty of £26 per Annum and that such Coach was worked within such
district only. That the said Magistrate notwithstanding such Evidence Convicted the petitioner of
the Offence stated in such Summons and ordered him to pay the penalty improved by the said
Act when Petitioner entored into a Recognizance in order to Appeal against such Conviction
whereby the Petitioner conceived himself aggrieved. which said Appeal stood duly adjourned
until this Session. Now upon hearing the said Appeal and what hath been alledged by the
Respective parties their Counsel and Witness in and concerning the premises It is
Ordered that the said Conviction be and same is hereby Quashed

By the Court