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To The Right Honourable The Lord M [..]
Majestys Justices of the peace for the Citty of London at the [..]
assembled

The Peticon of the Journeymen Clothworkers Freemen of the Citty of London

Humbly Sheweth


That your Petitioners haveing been Severaly Imployed by George Davis< no role >
Senr . George Davis< no role > Junr. Benjamin Wilkinson< no role > Thomas Hannam< no role > Daniel Holborough< no role >
Benjn. Barnes< no role > Joseph Taverior< no role > John Yerbury< no role > William Cooper< no role > William Farrer< no role > and
others (Master Clothworkers of the said Citty of London) as Journeymen Clothworkers
in the most Laborious Branch of the Woollen Manufacture for a Considerable time
past, and for Wages so Inconsiderable do renders them unable to support themselves
and Familys Insomuch [..] that they will soon be reduced to beggary unless timely
assisted

Your Petitonrs. therefore humbly pray your Lord Ships and Worships will
be pleased to take their case into Consideration and Enforce the Severall Statutes
made for settling the Wages of Labourers and artifficers that thereby the said
Masters may be Concelled to give them a reasonable allowance for their
worke or to give them such releife as to this Court Shall seem just

And yor Peticonrs. Shall ever pray Etc

Thomas Grangrass< no role >
Thomas Kebble< no role > his mark [mark]
Samuell Jones< no role >
John Havbert< no role >
Robert Bigg< no role >
Abs Davis< no role >
Tho Sabior< no role >
John Patterson< no role >
Thomas Onions< no role >
[..]

[..] mes Broughton
William Mitheyer< no role >
William Wadham< no role >
John Moore< no role >
Welleam Eton< no role >
John Care< no role >
Anthony Adams< no role >
William Tuckey< no role >




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