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