for that Purpose And such Justices shall within the Space of Fourteen Days next after
such General Sessions cause such Rates and Alterations from Time to Time to be printed
published and made known in such Manner also them shall seem meet at the reasonable
Expence of any Person or Persons desiring the same And for and after Publication
thereof all Taylors and their Journeymen and Servants within the Limits aforesaid
are hereby strictly required to observe the same upon Pain of Imprisonment by such
Justices for any Time not exceeding two Months being lawfully convicted of such
Offence after Knowledge or Information of any such Rates or Alterations thereof to
be made as aforesaid upon any Prosecution to be commenced within Six Days after
the Offence committed.

That since the making the above Act the Price of Labour in all Trades and
Business is much encreased of which the Master Taylors are so sensible that the
greatest Part and the mosteminent amongst them have for several Years past paid
their Journeymen Two Shillings and Six Pence a Day all the Year.

That your Petitioners were untill the late Disputes between the Masters and their
Journeymen in Middlesex entirely ignorant of the said Act and the Penalties incurred by
paying and receiving more Wages than by the said Act is allowed for Want of having an
Order or Appointment made for the Payment of the same by your Worships in Pursuance
to the Power oested in you by the said Act.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your
Worships will be pleased to alter the Wages and the Hours
of Working mentioned in the said Act, And to order that every
Master Taylor, residing in the said City, Do and shall pay unto
every Journeyman Taylor , for his Work, Two Shillings and
Six Pence a Day, and that the Hours of Working be
appointed to be from six of the Clock in the Morning to six
of the Clock at Night, or that your Worships will be pleased
to make such other Order or Appointment in the Premises
as to your Worships shall seem meet.

And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc