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
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 and the Liberties thereof

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

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 price of middling
British Oats as the same is now and
hath been lately bought and sold in the
Market 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 every pray Etc a

The Persons who are to support this Petition are
the same who are mentd at the bottom of the other Petr.
you herewith receive