To the Worshipfull the Justices for the County of Middlesex Assembled
At the General Quarter Session of the Peace for the said County of
Middlesex at Hicks Hall in Saint John Street

The humble Petition of the several Master Taylors
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

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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 Adjournments until Thursday the 11th.
day of the same Month of July Complaint being made unto that
Court by several Master Taylors 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 of Regulating the Journeymen Taylors within the
Weekly Bills of Mortality But that the said Master Taylors in
Order to prevent such Exactions of 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 Virtue
of the Power rested in them by the said Act Did Order that
every Master Taylors inhabiting or residing in the City and
Liberty of Westminster or in any other Part of the County of Middlesex
within the Weekly Bills of Mortality should pay unto every
Journeymen Taylor or other Person employed or to be Employed
or retained as a Journeyman Taylor for his Work from 6 o Clock
in the morning until 8 o Clock at Night until excepting only that there
should be Allowed by the Master three half 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 from the 29th. day of September
o the 25th. day of March 2s. a Day instead of the Sums mentioned in