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<p n="240">To the Right honourable <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15082_n240-1">Brass Crosby</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15082_occ70">Esquire</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Lord Mayor of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15082_geo186">City of London</rs>
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and to the Worshipful<lb></lb>
the Aldermen his Majesty's Justices of the Base for<lb></lb>
the same City at their General Quarter Session of the<lb></lb>
peace assembled.</p>
<p n="241">The humble Petition of the Master Wardens and<lb></lb>
Society of Innholders of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15082_geo187">City of London</rs>
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on<lb></lb>
behalf of themselves and the rest of the Consumers<lb></lb>
of Oats within the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15082_geo188">City of London</rs>
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and the<lb></lb>
Liberties thereof</p>
<p n="242"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That for sometime past <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15082_geo189">the Common</rs>
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Market Price<lb></lb>
of Middling English Oats at the new Corn Market in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15082_geo190">Mark Lane</rs>
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has exceeded the Sum of sixteen Shillings<lb></lb>
the Quarter, the Continuance whereof your Petitioners<lb></lb>
apprehend must prove very detrimental to the City of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15082_geo191">London</rs>
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in general and to your Petitioners in particular</p>
<p n="243">That your Petitioners are ready to make the Truth<lb></lb>
hereof appear and to prove the same in such manner as by<lb></lb>
the Statutes in that behalf is required.</p>
<p n="244">Your Petitioners therefore most<lb></lb>
humbly pray that this honourable<lb></lb>
Court will take their Case in to Consideration<lb></lb>
and proceed to examine and determine<lb></lb>
the Common Market Price of middling<lb></lb>
English Oats as the same in now and<lb></lb>
hath been lately bought and sold in<lb></lb>
the Markets of this City and to certify<lb></lb>
the same to his Majesty's Chief Officer<lb></lb>
and Collection of the Customs in such<lb></lb>
manner as by the Statutes in this<lb></lb>
behalf is required and directed</p>
<p n="245">And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc.</p>
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