To the Right Honourable Frederick
Bull< no role > Esquire Lord Mayor of the City of
London and to the Worshipful 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
several Consumers of Wheat and
Barley 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 examined and determine the common
Market prices of middling British Wheat
and middling British Barley as the same
sold in the Markets of this City and to certify
the same to his Majesty's Thief 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.

The Persons who are to support this Petr. are Edward
London of Edmonton in Middx Gent : and cem Strearwood
of Croydon in Surry Lighterman-whom we shall
produce on Monday