To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the rest of the Justices of the City of London

The Humble Petition of the Several Journeymen Taylors whose Names are
hereunto Subscribed on behalf of themselves and the rest of the Journeymen Taylors residing
and working in the said City and the Liberties thereof

Sheweth,

That by an Order made at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace Holden for the said
City at the Guildhall of the said City on Wednesday the Eighteenth day of January 1764 the Court by virtue
of the Power in them vested by an Act of Parliament made in the Seventh year of the Reign of his Majesty
King George the First Intituled an Act for regulating the Journeymen Taylors within the weekly Bills of
Mortality did (amongst other things) Order and Appoint That from that time there should be paid unto every
Journeyman Taylor (over and besides one penny half penny for Break which is Allowed by the said Act)
any sum not exceeding two shillings and six pence by the day And that in case of any Order for a General
Mourning publicnot by theEarl Marshal of England in the London Gazette that there for the space of one
Calender Month from the time of the Publication of any such Order there should be paid to every Journeyman
Taylor or other person employed or to be employed or retained as a Journeyman Taylor for his work during
the hours therein mentioned (over and besides one penny half penny for Breakfast) instead of the said sum
of two shillings and six pence any sum not exceeding Five Shillings by the day.

That by another Order made on the thirtieth day of April in the same year The hours of Work
were fixed to be from six in the Morning till Seven in the Evening the year round.

That your Petitioners with the deepest Sense of Gratitude acknowledge the Condescension
and Indulgence which they have always experienced from this Honourable Court And in pursuance of the
Liberty given them by the said Act of Parliament of Applying for an increase of their Wages They with all
humility beg leave to inform your Lordship and the rest of the Justices here Assembled That by reason of
the advanced Price of all the necessaries of Life since the making of the said Order They are unable to
maintain themselves and their Families upon the Wages now Stipulated.

That many of the Master Taylors within this City and the Liberties thereof out of as humane
and Compassionate Sense of the Hardships which your Petitioners labour under by the means aforesaid
are ready and willing to increase the Wages by the several Orders Appointed to three shillings a day but such
Masters think themselves not safe in so doing until a paper Alteration of the said Order be made by the
Authority of this Honourable Court

That your Petitioners since the making of the last Order have conformed thereto thereto And never
Attempted to or entred into any Combination or Confederacy whatsoever to Appose the same.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray your Lordship
and the rest of the Justices here Assembled to take the Premisses into
Consideration And that you will be pleased to make such Order therein
for the Relief of Your Petitioners As to the increase of their present Wages
as to your Lordship and the rest of the Justices in your great wisdom
shall seem meet.

And your Petitioners (as in duty bound) shall ever pray Etc.