Middlesex Sessions:
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July 1779

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That the said Order was accordingly published but the several
and respective Wages and Prices contained in the said Printed Book
and settled regulated and declared by the said Justices were not un
particularly specified and set forth in such publication according to the
meaning and intention and as required by the said Act of Parliament.

That your Petitioners are advised such omission renders the above
settlement of their Wages of no force and that the several Masters [..]
the above branch of the Silk Manufacture and your Petitioners [..]
Journeymen are not bound thereby but may give or receive more [..]
wages than contained in the said printed Book without sub [..]
themselves to the respective penalties in the said Act of Parliament [..]
mentionedAnd your Petitioners are further advised that as the [..]
Act requires the Wages and Prices to be caused to be published by [..]
Majesty's Justices who shall settle the same and within fourteen days
from the settlement thereof that a publication of them without the
authority and direction of this Court will be of no effectFor remedy
whereof and to prevent disputes between the Masters and their
Journeymen and that neither of them may off and with impunity or
attempt to interrupt that panguility which the said Act of [..]
Parliament intended to effect and which has been hitherto observed

Your Petitioners humbly pray this Honourable Court will be
pleased to affirm and declare the Wages and Prices as before
settled and contained in the said Book and to order that the
same may be particularly specified and set forth three times in
two Daily News papers published in London or Westminster [..]
that the Masters and their Journeymen in the above branch of [..]
Silk Manufacture within the said County of Middlesex may [..]
obliged to observe the same according to the meaning and [..]
of the said Act of Parliament.

James Johnson< no role >
John Farrington< no role >
Timothy Elsam< no role >
James Edger< no role >

Richard Read< no role >
Thomas Male< no role >
Edward York< no role >
Wittam Davis< no role >
Willm. Neale< no role >
James Foxon< no role >
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On behalf of ourselves and
the rest of the Journeyman
Weavers in the Narrow Fancy
Trimming Branch of the Silk
Manufacture within the County
of Middlesex .




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