To the Worshipfull Sir John
Hawkins< no role > Knight and the rest
of his Majesty's Justices of the
Peace assembled at their General
Quarter Session of the Peace at
Hicks Hall in Saint John Street in
and for the County of Middlesex .

The Humble Petition of the Journeymen
Weavers in the Narrow Fancy Trimming Branch
of the Silk Manufacture in the County of Middlesex .

Sheweth

That in pursuance of an Act of Parliament made and
passed in the thirteenth Year of his present Majesty's Reign,
intituled, "An Act to impower the Magistrates therein mentioned
"to settle and regulate the Wages of persons employed in the Silk
"Manufacture within their respective Jurisdictions" the Wages and
Prices of Work of your Petitioners in the above branch of the Silk
Manufacture within the County of Middlesex were settled, regulated
and declared by his Majestys Justices for the said County at their
General Quarter Session of the Peace holden in the Month of
January one thousand seven hundred and seventy four And
a printed Book containing the Wages and Prices agreed on between
the Masters and their Journeymen and settled regulated and declared by
the said Justices as aforesaid was ordered to be kept by the Clerk of
the Peace at his Office for the inspection and perusal of all persons
concerned and that the Order of Court then made should within the
space of Fourteen days next following be published three times in two
of the Daily Newspapers published in London or Westminster as by
the said Order may more fully and at large appear.