[364] Rymer, tom. XX. fol. 159.
[365] Anderson says three hundred, but that must be an error; for the Docquet of the Act in Scobel says, that "the number of persons keeping Hackney Coaches shall not at one time exceed two hundred." This must apply to the number of Carriages; and so Sir William Blackstone understood it. Commentaries, vol. I, 4to.
[366] See the Act in the Statute Book.
[367] Anderson, II. 115. Journals of the House of Commons. Blackstone.
[368] By Monthly Payments.
[369] The Figures of the Chairs are too small and inconspicuous; there should be one both on the outside and inside of each.
[370] By Quarterly Payments. Thus the Power of the Commissioners over the Chairs arose before that over the Coaches.
[371] Some Lawsuits having arisen from this Clause, it was explained by a short Act of the 12th year of the Queen (1713), subjecting such Widows to the same Rules, Penalties, &c. made, or to be made, as any acting Chairman. And thus it continues to this day; for the owner of a Figure, as it is called, is answerable for certain faults of his or her assignee.
[372] Turned afterwards into a mulct.
[373] Restrained by a subsequent Act.