To the Right Honourable Francis Cakayne< no role > Esqr . Lord
Mayor of the City of London and to the Aldermen of the same
City.

The Humble Petition of the several
Journey men Taylors in the said City.

Humbly Sheweth

That by an Act of Parliament made in the 7th. Year of the Reign of
King George the first for regulating the Journeymen Taylors within the weekly Bills of
Mortality It is amongst other Things enacted that the Hours of Work for all Journeymen
Taylors Servants and Apprentices to Taylors and other Persons employed or to be employed
or retained as Taylors in making up Mens or Women's Cloaths or such Servant or
Apprentices within the Citys of London and Westminster or either of them or within the
Weekly Bills of Mortality shall be 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 and for the said
Time or Hours of Work aforesaid there shall be paid unto every Journeyman Taylor or
other Person employed or to be employed or retained as a Journeyman Taylor for his
Work during the Hours aforesaid the Wages and Sums following (that is to say) From
the 25th. Day of March to the 24th. Day of June any Sum or Sums not exceeding Two
Shillings a Day, and for the rest of the Year One Shilling and Eight Pence a Day.

That the Legislature then perceiving it would be reasonable and necessary upon
some Occasions thereafter to alter the Wages and Hours of Work aforesaid It is thereby
further enacted that it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Justices of the Peace in
their respective Jurisdictions within the Limits aforesaid at their General Quarter
Sessions and they are thereby authorized and required upon Application to be made to then
for that Purpose to take into their Consideration the Plenty or Scarcity of the Time, and
other Circumstances necessary to be considered and to alter the Wages and Hours of
Work aforesaid And to order and appoint what Wages and Allowances shall be paid
or made to Journeymen Taylors and Servants retained or employed in the Art or Mistery
of a Taylor as aforesaid within the Limits aforesaid and what Hours they shall
work and shall make such Alterations therein from Time to Time as such Justices
at such General Sessions shall think fit upon Application to be made to them
for