To the Right Honble Barlow Trecothick< no role > Esquire
Lord Mayor of the City of London and to the
Worshipful the Aldermen his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for the same City at their General
Quarter Session 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 within this City has 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 Honble 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 Markets 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.