To the Right Honourable John Wilkes< no role >
Esquire Lord Mayor of the City of London
and the Worshipful 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 Wheat Barley Oats and
Pease within the City of London and the
Liberties thereof

Sheweth

That for some time past the common Market
Prices of middling British Wheat middling British
Barley middling British Oats and middling British Peace
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 middling British
Barley the Sum of twenty four Shillings the Quarter middling British Oats the Sum of sixteen Shillings the Quarter
and middling British Pease the Sum of thirty two
Shillings the Quarter the Continuance whereof your
Petitioners apprehend will prove very deterimental 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 Honourable Court will take
their Case into Consideration and proceed to
examine and determine the common Market
prices of middling British Wheat middling
British Barley middling British Oats
and middling british Pease as the same
are now and have been lately bought and
sold in the Market 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 be half is required
and directed

And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc