Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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19th May 1743 - 22nd February 1753

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Upon learing of Councel for the Said Master Taylors And Also on
hearing Councel for the Said Journeymen Taylors And upon Examination
into the premisses and Consideration of divers Circumstances relating
thereto Are of Opinion to Alter the Wages mentioned in the said Act of
Parliament, and do thereupon by Virtue of the power vested in the
Said Justices of the peace by the said Act Order that every Master
Taylor inhabiting or residing in the said City and Liberty or in
Any other part of the County of Middlesex within the Weekly Bill of
Mortality Shall pay unto every Journeyman Taylor or Other Person
empolyed or to be employed or retained as a Journeyman Taylor
of or his work from Six of the Clock in the Morning Untill eight of
the Clock at night excepting Only that there Shall be allowed by
the Master One Penny half penny a day for breakfast and
One hour for Dinner in the time aforesaid, the Wages and Sums
following (that is to say) from the five and Twentieth day of
March to the twenty Ninth day of September two Shillings and
Six pence a day And from the Twenty Ninth day of September to
the five and Twentieth day of March two Shillings a day,
instead of the Sums mentioned in the Aforesaid Act, And in
late of Non payment to be levyed in such Manner as by
the Same Act is Directed, And it is further Ordered, that this
Order be forthwith printed and published (to wit) twice in the
Publick News papers called the Daily Advertiser And twine in
the London Daily Advertiser and Literary Gazette And
andthat this Order be also printed and posted use in the Several
Parishes within the Weekly Bills of Mortality in the County
of Middlesex , And if any Master Taylor or Journeyman
Taylor Shall Act Contrary to the town of this Order they
Are to be proceeded Against in such Manner as by the said
Act is directed. And the expence of printing, publishing,
and posting up this Order is to be born and defrayed at the
Charge of the said County.

By the Court
Waller




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