To the Right Honorable Richard Clark< no role > Lord Mayor [..]
City of London and others his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said City as
at their General Quarter Session of the Peace next after Michaelmas, at the Guildhall

The Humble Petition of the several Freemen of the said City Parish [..]
the Parish of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the Ward of Portsoken in the said City whose [..]
Subscribed.

Humbly Sheweth

That many Persons daily frequent the Streets and other Places in the said City and the Liberties thereof hawkins
Cloaths and various other Articles to the very great and material Injury of the Tradesmen and Shopkeepers within the said City (and amongst
who pay large Rents and Taxes for their Houses and Premises wherein they exercise and carry on their respective Trades and Businesses and [..]
of the said City to entitle them to carry on their said Trades and Businesses in the said City and often assemble in great Numbers in a turned
the free Passage of the Streets and Avenues to the great Annoyance of the Publick in General and Particulary of the Inhabitants of such Parish [..]
assemble and to such an Heighth is the said Evil or Grievance of late grown that unless the same be speedily remedied many of your Petitioner
carrying on their respective Trades and Businesses where they at present do and for considerable time past have exercised and carried on
to quit their present Houses and Habitations and retire out of the City

That by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the twenty fifth Year of his present Majesty's Reign Intituled An Act [..]
"additionall Duties on Hawkers Pedlars and Petty Chapmen and for requlating their Trade"It is (amongst after Things) Enacted"that it any such
"Chapman or other Trading Person so travelling as aforesaid shall from and after the said first day of August One thousand seven hundred and eighty five
"without or contrary or otherwise than shall be allowed by such Licence" to be granted by virtue of the said Act" such Person shall for each and every
"of Ten Pounds to be recovered and applied as thereafter mentioned" And by the said Act It is provided and enacted" That it shall not be lawfull
"Petty Chapman or other trading Person travelling as aforesaid to vend his or her Goods or Wares in any Country or City being a Country of itself or Town being [..]
"England or Walls by virtue of any such Licence to be granted by virtue of the said Act as aforesaid in Case the Justices assembled at the General [..]
"Peace shall have made an Order that Hawkins Pedlars Petty Chapmen and other Trading Persons as aforesaid shall not have Liberty to ven [..]
"in such County City or Town upon Pain of forfeiting for every such Offence the Sum of Ten Pounds And that no such Order shall at any time be [..]
"Quarter Sessions next after Michaelmas to be holden for such County City or Town and not be in force till nine Months after Notice shall have be
"some Publick Newspaper Published or circulated in such County City or Town respectively" And by the said Act it is also provided an [..]
if any Hawker Pedlar or Petty Chapman or any trading Person shall vend any Goods Wares or Merchandises in any such County City To
"of the Provisions in this Act contained such Hawker Pedlar or Petty Chapman or other Trading Person shall be subject and liable to [..]
"this Act inflicted on Hawkers Pedlars or Petty Chapmen or other nading Persons travelling without Licences

That your Petitioners are ready to prove the several Allegations in this their Petition
shall think proper for them so to do And the City of London being a County of itself

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray that this Honorable Beaman
Quarter Sessions of the Peace being next after Michaelmas to make an Order that the [..]
and other Trading Persons aforesaid shall not have Liberty to send their Goods and
London or the Liberties thereof under the like Penalties inflicted by the said Acton Hawkings
or other trading Persons travelling without Licence Andthat youAlso order Non [..]
of such Order as may be made in the Premises in some publick Newspaper Publick
said City or that this Honorable Bench will be [..]