1773-4

To the Right Honourable Frederick
Bull< no role > Esquire Lord Mayor of the City of
London and to the Worshipfull the Aldermen
his Majesty's Justices of the Peace 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 all other the Consumers of Oats
in the said City of London

Sheweth

That lately the common Market Price of
middling British 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 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

Wherefore your Petitioners most
humbly pray that this Honble Court will
take their case into Consideration and
proceed to examine and determine the
common Market Price of middling British
Oats as the same is 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 Collector of the Customs
in such manner as by the Statutes in this
Behalf is required and directed.

And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc.

Rob Holder< no role > Sol:
for the Petitioners