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<p n="827">To the Worshipful His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50957_occ146">Justices of the<lb></lb>
Peace</rs>
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acting in and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo363">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
General Quarter Session of the Peace for the said<lb></lb>
County assembled.</p>
<p n="828">The Humble Petition and Appeal of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50957_n828-1">John Colgate</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo364">Greenwich</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo365">County of Kent</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50957_occ147">Coachmaster</rs>
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<p n="829"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That in pursuance of a Summons under the hand and Seal of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50957_n829-1">Cranley Thomas Kerby</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50957_n829-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50957_occ148">Esquire</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50957_occ148" type="occupation" value="Esquire"></interp>
one of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50957_occ149">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo366">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and also for the City and liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo367">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the said County, your Petitioner did on the twelfth day of June one<lb></lb>
thousand seven hundred and ninety eight attend at the Public Office in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo368">Queen<lb></lb>
Square</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo369">Westminster</rs>
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to answer a Complaint and Information made before<lb></lb>
the said Justice, whereby it was alledged that your Petitioner did after the<lb></lb>
first day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty five (to wit)<lb></lb>
on the seventh day of the said Month of June at the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo370">Saint Martin<lb></lb>
in the Fields</rs>
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in the said County City and liberty being a person licensed to<lb></lb>
keep a Stage Coach agreeable to an Act of Parliament passed in the twenty<lb></lb>
fifth year of the Regin of his present Majesty Intituled an Act for repealing<lb></lb>
the Duties on licenses taken out by persons letting Horses for the purpose of<lb></lb>
travelling post and by time and on Stage Coaches and for granting other Duties<lb></lb>
in lieu thereof and also additional Duties on Horses lett to hire for Travelling<lb></lb>
Post and by time did at the said Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields in the<lb></lb>
said County City and Liberty keep use and employ a certain Coach as a Public<lb></lb>
Stage Coach for the purpose of conveying Passengers for hire to and from<lb></lb>
different places within the Kingdom of Great Britain (to wit) to and from<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo371">Greenwich</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50957_geo372">County of Kent</rs>
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to London without having marked or<lb></lb>
painted or caused to be marked or painted on the outside pannel of each<lb></lb>
Door of the said Coach before your Petitioner used the said Coach for the<lb></lb>
purpose aforesaid your Petitioners Christian and Sir name contrary to the<lb></lb>
Statute Etc.</p>
<p n="830">That your Petitioner was convicted by the said Justices or by <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50957_n830-1">Henry James Pye</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50957_occ150">Esquire</rs>
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on other of the said Justices attending at the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
alledged in the said Summons as your Petitioner apprehends and the said<lb></lb>
Justices or one of them did adjudge your Petitioner as he hath been informed Guilty of<lb></lb>
the said Offence supposed to be committed by your Petitioner</p>
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