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October 1763

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To the Worshipful The Justices for the County of
Middlesex Assembled at the General Quarter Session of
the Peace for the said County of Middlesex at Hicks's Hall
in St John Street

The humble Petition of the several Master Taylor
whose Names are hereunto subscribed, on behalf of themselves
and of the several other Master Taylors who reside within
those parts of the Weekly Bills of Mortality which are within
the County of Middlesex

Sheweth


That at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden for
the said County on Monday the 1st. day of July 1751. and from thence
continued by several Adjournment until Thursday the 11th. day of the same
Month of July Complaint being made unto that Court by Several
Master Taylor That a great many Journeymen Taylors had then
exacted and insisted to have much greater Wages for their Work in
making up Mens or Womens Cloaths than were settled and ascertained
by an Act of Parliament made in the 7th. year of the Reign of His
Majesty King George the first entitled An Act for Regulating
the Journeymen Taylors within the Weekly Bills of
Mortality, But that the said Master Taylors in order prevent
such Exactions for the future were willing that the Journeymen Taylors
should be allowed greater Wages than were settled by the said Act of
Parliament And for that purpose They then made Application to that
Court to Alter the Wages mentioned in the said Act and to Settle and
Ascertain the Wages of the Journeymen Taylors in Such manner as the
said Court should think reasonable and just The Court thereupon by
vertue of the Power vested in them by the said Act Did Order That
every Master Taylor inhabiting or residing in the City & Liberty of Westminster
or in any other part of the County of Middlesex within the weekly Bills
of Mortality should pay unto every Journeyman Taylor or other Person
employed or to oe employed or retained as a Journeyman Taylor for his Work
from 6 o' Clock in the Morning until 8 o' Clock at Night excepting only
that there should be allowed by the Master Three hall pence a Day for
Breakfast and one Hour for Dinner in the time aforesaid The Wages and
Sums following that is to say from the 25th. day of March to the 29th day
of September 2s.6d a Day and fro the 29th day of September to the
25th. day of March 2s. a Day instead of the Sums mentioned in the
aforesaid Act.

That at the General Sessions of the Peace holden for the said
County at Hicks's Hall aforesaid on Monday the 13th. of September 1756
and




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