To the Right Honourable Sir Thomas
Hallifax< no role > Knight 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 Consumes of Pease within
the City of London and the Liberties
thereof

Sheweth

That for some time, past the Common
Market Price of Middlling British white
Pease at the new C [..] Market in Mark Lane
hath exceeded the Sum of thirty two Shillings
the Quarter the continuance whereof your
Petitioners apprehend will prove very detrimi [..]
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 Price of middling
British white Peace 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 Majesty's 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 Etc.