To the Right Honourable Sir Charles Asgill< no role > This name instance is in set 4365. Knight
Lord Mayor and the Rest of His Majesties Justices of
the Peace for the City of London and Liberties thereof
in their General Quarter Sessions Assembled.

The humble Petition of the Wardens and
Assistants of the Fellowship of Carmen of
the said City for and on the Behalf of
themselves and the Rest of the Members
of the said Fellowship.

Sheweth

That in pursuance of the late Act of Parliament for
regulating Cars and Carts and the Drivers thereof within the
said City and Liberties thereof divers Rules and Orders were
made and framed and Rates and Prices for the Carriages of Goods
set and Affixed with the Approbation and Concurrence of the
Governers of Christs Hospital and many Eminent Merchants
and Traders of this City, which Rules, Orders and Rates after
long and mature Consideration thereof at a General Quarter
Sessions of the Peace held at the Guildhall of the said City on
Monday the Eleventh Day of July 1757 were ratified & confirmed
and afterwards published for the Satisfaction of all persons
concerned therein.

That a Petition, Signed by 4 Persons only Traders in Cheese
hath been lately presented to this Honourable Court praying an
Alteration of the Rates Settled and allowed as aforesaid according to
a Scheme or Planto the said Petition annext being the same in Effect
as was proposed the last year when the present Rates were Established
and which were then not thought reasonable and therefore rejected,
and your Petitioners apprehend that if the Alterations now proposed
Should take Effect, the same will not only be detrimental to the Publick
in General, but will also be a Manifest Injury to your Petitoners in
particular as they are ready to make-appear.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray
that the Rates already made and allowed
may stand Established and Confirmed by