To the Right Honourable Thomas Wright< no role > Esquire
Lord Mayor and the Worshipful the Aldermen and
Recorder his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the City
of London in the General Quarter Sessions of the
Peace assembled

The humble Petition of the Wardens and Assistants
of the Fellowship of Carmen London

Sheweth

That your Petitioners have for a long time observed
with concern how very much the Inhabitants resident in Lower
Thomas Street< no role > and other Places in this City (where the Stands of
Carts are appointed) are incommoded and put to very great
Inconveniences by the continual Standing of Empty Carts not only
thro' the day time; but much earlier in Summer than is allowed
by the present Orders of Sessions

That the Inhabitants thereof have repeatedly with
your Petitioners) endeavoured to remedy this very great Grievance
both by Prosecutions, and otherwise without Effect

That your Petitioners conceive that a great part of the
Inconvenience arives, by many of the Carmen carrying very large
and unlawful Loads of certain Goods not particularly specified in
the present Orders of Sessions, which if the same were properly
divided it would occasion a greater succession and dispersion of
the Carts from and off the different Stands

That your Petitioners in order to regulate and remedy
this Grievance as far as in them lay have (at a Court of Assistants
holden at Guildhall , of the said Wardens and Assistants on the 9th
day of February 1769. after making the nicest and best Calculations
they could, made certain Regulations and Ascertained what
Quantity of Goods of different Sorts (not specefied in the Orders
of Sessions) ought to be deemed and carried as a Load and
Endeavoured to have the same observed by every Free Carman by
dispersing One Thousand Printed Copies thereof amongst the
whole Body of Carmen one of which said Copies is hereunto
annexed.

That