To The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of
the City of London and the Rest of His Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for the said City in their General Quarter
Session assembled

The humble Petition of Henry White< no role >
Citizen and Weaver of London.

Sheweth

That by an Order made at the General Quarter Session
of the Peace of our Lord the King holden for the City of London
as the Guildhall within the said City by Adjournment on
Friday the fifth Day of November last past in Pursuance of
an Act of Parliament made and Passed in the thirteenth Year
of the Regin of His present Majesty intituled an Act to empower
the Magistrates therein mentioned to settle and regulate the
Wages of Persons employed in the Silk Manufacture within,
their respective Jurisdictions the Justices their present did settle
regulate order and declare the wages and prices of Work of
the Journeymen Weavers working within the City of London
in the single HandLooms of the narrow Branch of the
Silk Manufacture.

That among other things in the said Order mentioned
certain Wages and Prices of Work are specified and setforth
the making of Love Ribbons in which Branch of Business
a great Number of Persons have been usually employed by
Your Petitioner but on Account of such Wages and Prices of
Work being much higher than had been for some time before
the making of that Order paid to Journeymen Weavers in
that Branch many Persons are unemployed therein and
if such wages and prices of Work should continue Your