To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Recorder of the City of London at
their General Quarter Sessions or General Sessions of the Peace assembled

The Humble Petition of the several Journeymen Taylors whose Names are hereunto
subscribed on Behalf of themselves the rest of the Journeymen Taylor working within the City of London
and five Miles thereof

Sheweth

That by an Act of Parliament made in the Eight Year of his present Majesty's Reign. It is Enacted "That
from the 25th. day of March 1768 the Hours for Work in the Day for Servants or Journeymen to be employed in the Business of
[..] the City of London and five Miles thereof shall be from 6 of the Clock in the Morning untill 7 of the Clock in the
Evening with an Interval of One Hour only for Infreshment and that there shall be paid to every such Journeymen to be
employed as aforesaid for his Work during the Hours aforesaid the Wages or Allowances following that is to say, Any Sum
not exceeding Two Shillings and Seven Pence Half penny per diem except during the Space of one Calendar Month
from the Publication of any Order for a General Morning by the Earl Marshall in the London Gazette and during that
Space any Sum not exceeding Five Shillings and one Penny Half penny

That by the said Act It is further Enacted that of any Master Taylor within the Limits aforesaid
shall give allow as pay or Cause permiter safer to be given allowed or paid directly or indirectly in Money or otherwise to any Servant
or Journeyman in the Business of a Taylor any more or greater Wages or Allowances than the Wages or Allowances
aforesaid or such other Wages or Allowances as shall thereafter from time to time be ordered and appointed by Virtue
and in Pursuance of the said Act or if any Journeyman shall have receive, accept of or take in any Manner directly
or indirectly by himself or any other Person to his Use more or greater Wages or Allowances than as aforesaid in Money
or otherwise every Person so offending in any or either of the said Cases and being thereof convicted in Manner in the said
Act specified shall be committed to the House of Conviction there to be kept to hard Labour, or to the Common Gaol for anytime
not exceeding two Months nor less than Fourteen Days

That by the said Act It is also further Enacted that it shall and may be Lawful to and for the Mayor
Aldermen and Recorder of the City of London for the time being at their General Quarter Sessions or General Sessions
of the Peace assembled And they are thereby authorized and required from time to time upon Application being made
to them for that Purpose to alter regulate order add appoint the Wages and Allowances to be paid or made to
Journeymen Taylors and Servants retained or employed in the Art or Mistery of a Taylor within the Limits aforesaid
and shall and may within the Space of Fourteen Days next after the making every such Order cause the same to be
printed published and made known in such Manner as to them shall seem meet at the reasonable Expence of the
[..] for the same And from and after Publication thereof all Taylors and their Journeymen
and Sewers within the Limits aforesaid are thereby [..] the same Provided always
That advertizing such Orders of Sessions three times in any two Daily News Papers published in London or Westminister Shall
for the Purposes of the said Act be deemed and allowed to be sufficient Notice and Publications thereof

That since making the said Act all kinds of Provisions and Necessaries of Life are so greatly increased in Price
that your Petitioners many of whom have Large Familys are not able to support themselves and Familys in their
Present Wages of Two Shillings and Seven Peace Halfpenny per Day

That your Petitioners are not only estrained by the said Act from receiving any Increase of Wages without
the Lease of this Court but also apprehend askey are informed that they cannot without increasing of Penalties by
the said Acting Acted receive any Bounty or Assistance whatsoever towards maintaining themselves and Familys
from