To the Right Honourable Sir James
Esdaile< 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
Importers of Rape Seed within the
City of London and the Liberties thereof

Sheweth

That for some time past the common Market
Price of middling British Rape Seed at the new
Corn Market in Mark Lare hath exceeded the Sum
of seventeen Pounds and ten Shillings per Last
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 Honourable
Court will take their Case into consideration
and proceed to examine and determine
the common Market Price of middling
British Rape Seed as the same is
now and has been lately brought 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 their behalf as required
and directed.

And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc.