That their Hour of Work commences at six O'Clock in the Morning both in Winter and
Summer & that but a few of your Petitioners Trade being able to get constant Work with the name
Master are frequently obliged to go from one End of the Town to the other before their said Hour of Work and are
frequently discharged in the Middle of a Day and at such a distance from the Houses or Places of Call as not
only to accasion the loss of the Remainder of the Day impossible to be avoided but to loose them much Time
in the Year.

That your Petitioners not only for the Conveniency of the Masters and Tradesmen but that
they may have equal Opportunities of employ and maintaining themselves and Families enter into
Companies or Society's and keep their Names in Books and from thence go to Work by rotation and
have been used to keep or subscribe to benefit Societies from 18s.. to 20s. a Years in the whole to relieve
or maintain them in Case of Sickness but that from the difference in their Wages & the hight Price of
Provisions they are incapable of continuing their Payments to any such Benefit Societies and have thereby
many of them been Obliged to forfeit their Interest thereto, and must inevitably in Case of Sickness
become burthen some to their respective Parishes.

That by reason of their Working in close and confined Places and by Candle Light their Eyes
are in general so greatly affected that great many of your Petitioners Trade are disabled from Working
at their Business after they are 40 Years of Age and by means thereof are not only frequently rejected by
the Masters at the Age of 40 merely on that Account, but are presented from being employed in any
other kinds of Labour.

That not only during the present but late General Mourning the Master Taylors have refused
giving your Petitioners double Wages agreeable to the late Act or more than the Common Price of
2s. 7½d. P Day.

That your Petitioners have all of them carefully avoided assembling in any tumultuous
manner or mixing with any Crowds of People whatever in these riotous Times, and that on Monday
the 16th. day of last Month when your Petitioners went to lay their Case before the Honourable the House
of Commons they behaved with all Decency and have never given made or joined in making or
giving any Noise Offence or Disturbance whatsoever as they have been informed and believe.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly Pray that this
Court will please to take their Case under their most serious
Consideration and allow them Wages after the Rate of three
Shillings a Day, and that this court will be Pleased to give such
other Relief and Redross as the nature of their Case requires
and to this Court shall seem meet.

And your Petitioners shall ever Pray Etc.