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<p n="115">To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and the rest of the Justices of the City of London</p>
<p n="116">The Humble Petition of the Several <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15078_occ45">Journeymen Taylors</rs>
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whose Names are<lb></lb>
hereunto Subscribed on behalf of themselves and the rest of the Journeymen Taylors residing<lb></lb>
and working in the said City and the Liberties thereof</p>
<p n="117"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth,</note>
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That by an Order made at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace Holden for the said<lb></lb>
City at the Guildhall of the said City on Wednesday the Eighteenth day of January 1764 the Court by virtue<lb></lb>
of the Power in them vested by an Act of Parliament made in the Seventh year of the Reign of his Majesty<lb></lb>
King George the First Intituled an Act for regulating the Journeymen Taylors within the weekly Bills of<lb></lb>
Mortality did (amongst other things) Order and Appoint That from that time there should be paid unto every<lb></lb>
Journeyman Taylor (over and besides one penny half penny for Break which is Allowed by the said Act)<lb></lb>
any sum not exceeding two shillings and six pence by the day And that in case of any Order for a General<lb></lb>
Mourning public<del>not by the</del>
Earl Marshal of England in the London Gazette that there for the space of one<lb></lb>
Calender Month from the time of the Publication of any such Order there should be paid to every Journeyman<lb></lb>
Taylor or other person employed or to be employed or retained as a Journeyman Taylor for his work during<lb></lb>
the hours therein mentioned (over and besides one penny half penny for Breakfast) instead of the said sum<lb></lb>
of two shillings and six pence any sum not exceeding Five Shillings by the day.</p>
<p n="118">That by another Order made on the thirtieth day of April in the same year The hours of Work<lb></lb>
were fixed to be from six in the Morning till Seven in the Evening the year round.</p>
<p n="119">That your Petitioners with the deepest Sense of Gratitude acknowledge the Condescension<lb></lb>
and Indulgence which they have always experienced from this Honourable Court And in pursuance of the<lb></lb>
Liberty given them by the said Act of Parliament of Applying for an increase of their Wages They with all<lb></lb>
humility beg leave to inform your Lordship and the rest of the Justices here Assembled That by reason of<lb></lb>
the advanced Price of all the necessaries of Life since the making of the said Order They are unable to<lb></lb>
maintain themselves and their Families upon the Wages now Stipulated.</p>
<p n="120">That many of the Master Taylors within this City and the Liberties thereof out of as humane<lb></lb>
and Compassionate Sense of the Hardships which your Petitioners labour under by the means aforesaid<lb></lb>
are ready and willing to increase the Wages by the several Orders Appointed to three shillings a day but such<lb></lb>
Masters think themselves not safe in so doing until a paper Alteration of the said Order be made by the<lb></lb>
Authority of this Honourable Court</p>
<p n="121">That your Petitioners since the making of the last Order have conformed thereto thereto And never<lb></lb>
Attempted to or entred into any Combination or Confederacy whatsoever to Appose the same.</p>
<p n="122">Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray your Lordship<lb></lb>
and the rest of the Justices here Assembled to take the Premisses into<lb></lb>
Consideration And that you will be pleased to make such Order therein<lb></lb>
for the Relief of Your Petitioners As to the increase of their present Wages<lb></lb>
as to your Lordship and the rest of the Justices in your great wisdom<lb></lb>
shall seem meet.</p>
<p n="123">And your Petitioners (as in duty bound) shall ever pray Etc.</p>
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