To the Right Honourable William Beekford< no role > Esqr . Lord
Mayor of the City of London and to the Worshipful the
Alderman his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the same
City at their General Quarter Sessions of the peace assembled

The humble Petition of the Master
Wardens and Society of Inn holders of the City of London on
behalf of themselves and the rest of the Consumers of Oats
within the said City of London and the Liberties
thereof.

Sheweth

That for some time past the Common Market price of middling
English Oats at the New Corn Market in Mark Lane has greatly
exceeded the Sum of Sixteen Shillings the Quarter, the Continuance whereof
your Petitioners apprehend, must prove very detrimental to the City of
London in general, and to your Petitioners in Particular

That Your Petitioners are Ready to make the Truth hereof appear
and to prove the same in such Manner as by the Statutes in that behalf
is required.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly
pray that this Honourable Court will take
their Case into Consideration and proceed to
Examine and determine the Common Market
Price of Middling English Oats as the same
is now and hath been lately bought and
sold in the Marketts of this City and to
Certify the same to his Majesty's Chief Officer
and Collector of the Customs in such manner as
by the Statutes in this behalf is required
and Directed

And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc.