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<p n="247">To the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15081_occ98">Right Honourable</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15081_n247-1">Barlow Trecothick</rs>
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Esquire Lord<lb></lb>
Mayor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15081_geo152">City of London</rs>
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and to the Worshipfull the<lb></lb>
Aldermen his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the same<lb></lb>
City at their General Quarter Session of the peace assembled.</p>
<p n="248">The Humble Petition of the Master Wardens<lb></lb>
and Society of Innholders of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15081_geo153">City of London</rs>
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on behalf<lb></lb>
of themselves and the rest of the Consumers of Oats<lb></lb>
within the said City and the Liberties thereof</p>
<p n="249"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That for some time past the Common market price of<lb></lb>
Midling English Oats at the new Corn Market in Mark Lane<lb></lb>
has exceeded the sum of Sixteen Shillings the Quarter the Continuance<lb></lb>
whereof your Petitioners apprehend must prove very detrimental to the<lb></lb>
City of London in general and to your Petitioners in particular</p>
<p n="250">That your Petitioners are ready to make the truth hereof<lb></lb>
appear and to prove the same in such manner as by the Statutes<lb></lb>
in that behalf is required</p>
<p n="251">Your Petitioners therefore most humbly<lb></lb>
pray that this Honourable Court will take their cause<lb></lb>
into Consideration, and proceed to examine and<lb></lb>
determine the Common Market price of midling<lb></lb>
English Oats as the same is now and hath been<lb></lb>
lately bought and sold in the Markets of this City<lb></lb>
and to Certify the same to his Majesty's Chief<lb></lb>
Officer and Collector of the Customs in such Manner<lb></lb>
as by the Statutes in this behalf is required and<lb></lb>
directed</p>
<p n="252">And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc.</p>
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