Session Payned
1773

To the Right Honourable The Lord Mayor
of the City of London and to the Worshipful the
Recorder and Aldermen of the Said City at the
General Quarter Session of the Peace Assembled.

The humble Petition of the Journeymen
Weavers working within the City of London in
The Engine Branch of the Silk Manufacture whose
Names are hereunto subscribed on behalf of themselves
and all other Journeymen Weavers working in the said
Branch within the said City.

Sheweth

This in pursuance of the late Act of Parliament
intituted "An Act to impower the Magistrates therein mentioned
to settle and regulate the Wages of Persons employed in the
Silk Manufacture within their respective Jurisdictions"
Your Petitioners humbly apply to this Court that their Wages
and prices of Work, in the said Branch may be settled regulated
ordered and declared according to the Directions of the said Act.

That Your Petitioners have prepared a List of their Wages
and Prices of Work in the said Branch which is hereunto
annexed and which they humbly submit to the Judgment of
this Honourable Court are reasonable Wages and Prices to be for the
future paid to them for their Work by the Master Weavers.

That Your Petitioners have given public Notice three
several times in the Daily Advertiser of this Their Application
to this Honourable Court for the Purpose of foresaid and therefore