To the Right honourable Brass Crosby< no role > Esquire
Lord Mayor of the City of London and to the Worshipful
the Aldermen his Majesty's Justices of the Base for
the same City at their General Quarter Session of the
peace assembled.

The humble Petition of the Master Wardens and
Society of Innholders 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 sometime past the Common Market Price
of Middling English Oats at the new Corn Market in
Mark Lane 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 honourable
Court will take their Case in to Consideration
and proceed to examine and determine
the Common Market Price of middling
English Oats as the same in 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 Collection of the Customs in such
manner as by the Statutes in this
behalf is required and directed

And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc.