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Sessions Papers
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1753
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To the Right Honourable
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The humble Petition of the several Journeymen Taylor
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Humbly Sheweth
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That your Petitioners preferred their Petition at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held at
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in October 1751 Before the then Right Honourable
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Francis Cokayne
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of the said City and the Aldermen of the same City Setting forth That by an Act of
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Parliament made in the Seventh year of the Reign of King George the first for regulating the Journeymen Taylor
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within the Weekly Bills of Mortality It is amongst other things Enacted that the hours of Work for all Journeyman
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Taylor Servants and Apprentices to Taylors and other Person employed or to be employed or
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in making up Mens or Womens Cloaths or such Servant or Apprentices within the Cities of London and Westminster
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or either of than or within the Weekly Bills of Mortality shall be from Six of the Clock in the Morning untill Eight
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of the Clock at Night Excepting only that there shall be Allowed by the Master one penny half penny for Breakfast
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and one from for Dinner in the time aforesaid And for the said time or hours aforesaid there shall be paid into
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every Journeyman Taylor or other Person Employed or to be employed or retained as a Journeyman Taylor for
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his Work during he Hours aforesaid the Wages and Sums following (that is to say) from the 25th. day of March
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to the 24th. day of June any Sum or Sums not exceeding two Shillings a day, and for the rest of the Year One
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Shilling and eight pence a day.
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That the Legislature then perceiving it would be reasonable and necessary upon some Occasions
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thereafter to Alter the Wages and hours of Work aforesaid It is thereby further Enacted that it shall and may be
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lawfull to and for the Justices of the peace in their respective Jurisdictions within the Limits aforesaid at their
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General Quarter Sessions And they are thereby authorized and required upon Application to be made to them
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for that purpose to take into their Consideration the Plenty or Scarcity of the time and other Circumstances
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necessary to be considered And to Alter the Wages and hours of Work aforesiad And to Order and Appoint which
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Wages and allowances shall be paid or made to Journeymen Taylors and Servants retained or employed in the
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Art or Mistery of Taylor aforesaid within the Limits aforesaid And what hours they shall Work, and shall
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make such Allerations therein from time to time as such Justices at any such General Sessions shall think fit
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upon Application to be made to them for that purpose And such Justices shall within the space of Fourteen Days next
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after such General Sessions Came such Rates and Atterations from time to time to be Printed Published and made
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known in such manner as to them shall seem meet at the reasonable Expence of any Person or Persons Desiring
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the Same And from and after Publication thereof all Taylors and their Journeymen and Servants within the
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Limits aforesaid are thereby stricktly required to observe the Same upon pain of Imprisonment by such Justices
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for any time not exceeding two Months being lawfully Convicted of such Offence after knowledge and
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Information of any such Rates or Alterations thereof to be made as aforesaid upon any Prosecution to be
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Commenced within Six days after the Offence Committed.
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That since the making the above Act the Price of Labour in all Trades and Businesses is much increased
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of which the Master Taylors are so Sensible that the greatest part and most Eminent amongst them have for
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several Years past paid their Journeymen 2s.6d. a day all the year.
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That your Petitioners were untill the late Disputes between the Masters and their Journeymen in
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Middlesex intirely Ignorant of the said Act and the Penalties incurred by paying and receiving more Wages
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than by the said Act is allowed for want of having an Order and Appointment made for the payment of the
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Same by your Worships in pursuance of the Power vested in you by the said Act.
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That your Petitioners therefore their humbly prayed that your Worships would be pleased to alter the
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Wages and the hours of working mentioned in the Said Act and to Order that the Master Taylors residing
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in the said City should pay unto every Journeyman Taylor for his Work 2s.6d. a day And that the hours of
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Working be appointed to be from Six of the Clock in the Morning to Six of the Clock at Night Or that your
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Worships would be pleased to make such other Order in the Premisses as to your Worships should seem
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to That
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