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 Consumers of Wheat 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 and
middling British Pease at the new Corn Market
in Mark Lane have exceeded the Sums following
to witmiddling British Wheat the Sum of
forty eight Shillings the Quarter and middling
British Pease the Sum of thirty two Shillings
the Quarter, the continuance whereof your
Petitioners apprehend will prove [..]
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 Statues 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 Prices of
middling British Wheat and middling British
Pease 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 over pray Etc.