General Quarter Session holden for the same City by Adjournment on Friday
the 25th. Day of October 1751, upon the Application of the Journey men Taylors,
to raise their Wages from Two Shillings to Two Shillings and six Pence P Diem
for the Spring Quarter, and from one Shilling and eight Pence to two Shillings
for the Remainder of the year (over and above the three half Pence allowed
for their Breakfast) and to lessen their Hours of Work by appointing it
from six in the Morning till Seven in the Evening only.

That such Order containning in force only for one Year The Justice
of the Peace for the same City were afterwards pleased at the General
Quarter Session holden for the same City by Adjournment, on Friday the
second Day of February 1753, upon the like Application of the Journeymen
Taylors , to make the like Alleration in the Premisses, both as to the Hours
of Work and Wages, and to appoint that the same should so continue untill
further Order to the Contrary.

But at the time of making such Order the Court were pleased to
declare that the Continuance of it should extirely depend upon the Conform [..]
of the Journeymen, and that if they should abuse the Indulgence thereby
shewn them, that they would then made such Alteration in the Premes
as the Nature of the Case should require.

That Your Petitioners on their Parts with the greatest Chearfulness
submitted to the Order, in Hopes it might have proved the Means of putting
an End to all Disputes in this City between them and their Journeymen.

That this Order was also observed by the Journeymen till the
24th. Day of June last, at which time the Journeymen entred into a Combina-
tion, and have ever since refused to work for the Wages prescribed by the
Order.

That such proceedings in the Journey men is of the last Inconvenient
to the Publick, as well as Your Petitioners, and it is with the utmost
Reluctance Your Petitioners now trouble this Honourable Court with
their Complaint

But Your petitioners from Experience are fully convinced that
the Indulgence which has been shower the Journeyman has been abused