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, () on Monday
the Seventh Day of January in the Thirty Ninth
Year of the Regin of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, King of
Great Britain, Etc. Before William Mainwaring< no role > , Thomas
Robinson< no role > , Rupert Clarke< no role > , Frederick Mathew< no role >
Esquires , and other their Fellows, Justices of our said Lord the King,
assigned to keep the Peace in County aforesaid; and also to hear and
determine divers Felonies, Trespasses and other Misdemeanours com-
mitted in the same County.

Whereas John Colgate< no role > of Greenwich in the County of Kent Coachmaster Did at the General
Quarter Session of the peace held in and for this County in the Month of July last Exhibit his petition and
Appeal setting forth That in pursuance of a Summons under the Hand and Seal of [..]
Thomas Kerby Esquire one of His Majestys Justices of the peace for the County of Middlesex
and also for the City and Liberty of Westminster in the said County the Petitioner
did on the twelfth day of June One thousand Seven Hundred and ninety eight
attend at the Public Office in Queen Square westminster to answer a Complaint and
Information made before the said Justice whereby it was alledged that the Petitioner
did after the First day of August 1785 (to wit) on the Seventh day of the said Month
of June at the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields in the said County City and
Liberty being a Person Licensed to Keep a Stage Coach agreeable to and Oct of
Parliament passed in the twenty Fifth Year of the regin of his present Majesty
Intituled ''On Act for repealing the duties on Licenses taken out by persons letting
''Horses for the purpose of travelling post and by time and on stage Coaches and
''for granting other duties in him thereof and also additional Duties on Horses lett
''to hire for Travelling post and by time'' did at the said Parish of Saint Martin in
the Fields in the said County City and liberty keep use and Employ a certain Coach as
a Public Stage Coach for the purpose of conveying Passengers for hire to and from
different places within the Kingdom of Great Britain (to wit) to and from Greenwich in
the County of Kent to London without having Marked or painted or caused to be marked
or painted on the outside pannel of each door of the said Coach, before he used the said
Coach for the purpose aforesaid his Christian and Sir Name Contrary to the Statute at
That the Petitioner was Convicted by the said Justice or by Henry James Pye< no role > Esquire
one other of the said Justices attending at the said Office of the Offence alledged in the said
Summons as the Petitioner Apprehends And the said Justices or one of them did adjudge
the Petitioner as he had been informed guilty of the said Offence supposed to be committed
by him: 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 and their Counsel in and concerning the premises It is Ordered
that the said Conviction be and the same is hereby Quashed

By the Court