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

The Humble Petition of the several Freemen of the said City Parishioners and Inhabitants of
the Parish of Saint Botolph Aldgate in the Ward of Portsoken in the said City whose Names are hereunto
Subscribed.

Sheweth

That many Persons daily frequent the Streets and other Places in the said City and the Liberties thereof having deprived upon all
[..] ons other Articles to the very great and Material Injury of the Tradesmen and Shopkeepers within the said City (and amongst others, of your Petitioners
Rents and Taxes for their Houses and Premises wherein they exercise and carry on their respective Trades and Businesses and are obliged to be Freemen
to entitle them to carry on their said Trades and Businesses in the said City and often assemble in great Numbers in a tumultnous Manner so as to obstenet
[..] of the Streets and Avenues to the great Annoyance of the Publick in General and Particulars of the Inhabitants of such Parts where they most usually
to such an Heighth is the said Evil or Grievance of late grown that unless the same be speedily remedied many of your Petitioners will be prevented from
[..] respective Trades and Businesses where they at present do and for considerable time past have exercised and carried on the same and will be obliged
sent 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 for granting to his Majesty's
[..] on Hawkers Pedlars and Petty Chapmen and for requlating their Trade It is (amongst other Things) Enacted " that if any such Hawker Pedlar or Petty
[..] or Trading Person so travelling as aforesaid shall from and after the said first day of August One thousand seven hundred eighty five be found trading as aforesaid
[..] any 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 such Offence forfeit the Sum
[..] to be recovered and applied as there after mentioned" And by the said Act It is provided and enacted" That it shall not be lawful for any Hawker Pedler
[..] or other trading Person travelling as aforesaid to vend his or her Goods or Wares in any County of itself or Town being a County of itself in
[..] es 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 Quarter Sessions of the
[..] made an Order that Hawkers Pedlars Petty Chapmen and other Trading Persons as aforesaid shall not have Liberty to vend their Goods and Wares
[..] by City or Town upon Pain of forfeiting for every such Offence the Sum of Ten Pounds And that no such Order shall any time be made except at the
[..] as next after Michaelmas to be holden for such County City or Town and not be in force till nine Months after Notice shall have been given of the same in
Newspaper Published or eviculated in such County City or Town respectively" And by the said Act it is also Provided and further Enacted That
Pedler or Petty Chapman or any trading Person shall vend any Goods Wares or Merchandizes in any such County City Town or Place contrary to any
is in this Act contained such Hawker Pedlar or Petty Chapman or other Trading Person shall be subject and liable to the like Penalties as is by
[..] ted on Hawkers Pedlars or Petty Chapmen or other trading Persons travelling without Licence

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

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray that this Honorable Bench will be pleased at this present
Quarter Sessions of the Peat being next after Michaelmas to make an Order that Hawkers Pedlars Petty Chapmen
and other Trading Persons aforesaid shall not have Liberty to vend their Goods and Wares in the said City of
London or the Liberties thereof under the like Penalties inflicted by the said Act on Hawkers Pedlars and Petty Chapmen
or other trading Persons travelling without Licence Andthat youAlso to order Notice forthwith to be given of
of such Order as may be made in the Premises in some Publick Newspaper Published or eviculated in the
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