To the Right Honble Frederick Bull< no role > Esquire Lord
Mayor of the City of London and the rest of his Majestys
Justices of the Peace for the said City, at the General
Quarter Sessions Assembled.

The Humble Petition of sundry Merchts .
of the said City Trading to Viginia & Maryland .

Sheweth

That wheras a Petition has been or is
intended to be presented to this Honourable Court
Signed by a number of respectable Merchants
Trading to & from Virginia and Maryland , Praying
for a reduction of the Prices for the Cartage of
Tobacco to & from the several Warehouses mention'd
in the said Petition. And as there is no mention
therein made of the Wells Warehouses though
Contiguous to those therein mention'd and within
a certain distance for a Three Shillg. Load as
described in the Book of Rates for the Prices of
Cartage of Tobacco & as in the Proper hereto annext
appears

Your Petitioners therefore most
Humbly Pray Your Lordship & Worships
that you will be pleased to grant them
a reduction of the Price of Cartage to & from
the said Wells Warehouses, in the same
degree as this Honourable Court may
think proper to grant to the abovementd.
Petitioners.

And your Petrs. will ever pray

July 13 1774

Thos. Eden< no role > &Co
Chrisr Court &Co
Barlow Wigginton< no role > to Francis

William Lee< no role >
West & Hobson
Wm. Robinson< no role > for Mildred &Co
Wallace Davidson< no role > & Johnson