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 Sessions
of the Peace Assembled

The Humble Petition of the
several Consumers of Barley and Wheat
within the City of London and the
Liberties thereof

Sheweth

That for some time past the common Market
prices of middling British Wheat and middling British
Barley at the new Corn Market in Mark Lane have exceeded
the Sums following to-wit-middling British Wheat
the Sum of forty Eight Shillings the Quarter and middling
British Barley the Sum of twenty four Shillings the Quarter
the Continuance whereof your Petitioners apprehend
will 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

Your Petitioners therefore
most humbly pray that this Honble
Court will take their Case into
Consideration and proceed to examine
and determine the common Market
prices of middling British Wheat
and middling British Barley as the
same are now and have been lately
bought and sold in the Markets of
this City and to certify the same to his
Majestys 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 Etca.