To the Right Honble Stephen Theodore Janssen< no role > Esqr .
Lord Mayor of the City of London and others His Majesty's
Justices of the peace for the same City in the General
Quarter Session of the peace for the same a City assembled.

The humble Petition of the several Master Taylors of the City of
London whose Names are hereunto subscribed on behalf of themselves
and the rest of the Master Taylors of the same City.

Most humbly Sheweth

That by the Act of Parliament made in the seventh Year
of His present Majestys Reign intituled And Act for Regulating the
Journey men Taylors within the Weekly Bills of Mortality It was enacted
that the Hours of Work for all Journeymen Taylors Servants and Appren-
tice to Taylors within the Cities of London and Westminster and the Weekly
Bills of Mortality should be from six of the Clock in the Morning until
eight of the Clock at Night; excepting only that there should be allowed
by the Master one penny half penny a Day for Breakfast and one
Hour for Dinner in the time aforesaid; and that for the said time or Hours
of Work aforesaid there should be paid unto every Journeyman Taylor
for his Work during the Hours aforesaid the Wages and [..] ins following
that is to say from the five and Twentieth Day of March to the four and
Twentieth Day of June any Sum not exceeding two Shillings per Diem;
and for the Rest of the Year one Shilling and eight Pence per Diem.

That before the passing of that law the usual Hours of Work
for the Journeymen Taylors were greater and their Wages less; but several
Combinatione having arose from time to time [..] gst the Journey men
as appears by the Preamble of that Statute, to raise their Wages and
lessen their Hours of Work, the plain Intent of that law was to prevent
those Disputes for the future.

But such Statute having given the Justices of the peace at their
General Quarter Sessions, in their respective Jurisdictions within the
aforesaid Limits, power and Authority, upon Sp [..] Occasions, to make
such Alterations in the Hours of Work and Wages as they should think
fit, The Justices of the peace for the City of London were pleased at their