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<p n="12"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sessions Papers<lb></lb>
1753</note>
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To the Right Honourable <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15064_occ10">Sir</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n12-1">Crisp Gascoigne</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15064_occ11">Knight</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15064_occ12">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15064_geo7">City of London</rs>
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, and the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15064_occ13">Aldermen</rs>
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of the same City.</p>
<p n="13">The humble Petition of the several Journeymen Taylor<lb></lb>
and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15064_occ14">Staymakers</rs>
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within the said City.</p>
<p n="14"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth</note>
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That your Petitioners preferred their Petition at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15064_geo8">Guildhall</rs>
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in and for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15064_geo9">City of London</rs>
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in October 1751 Before the then Right Honourable <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15064_n14-1">Francis Cokayne</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15064_occ15">Esquire</rs>
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then <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15064_occ16">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the said City and the Aldermen of the same City Setting forth That by an Act of<lb></lb>
Parliament made in the Seventh year of the Reign of King George the first for regulating the Journeymen Taylor<lb></lb>
within the Weekly Bills of Mortality It is amongst other things Enacted that the hours of Work for all Journeyman<lb></lb>
Taylor Servants and Apprentices to Taylors and other Person employed or to be employed or<obscured></obscured>
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in making up Mens or Womens Cloaths or such Servant or Apprentices within the Cities of London and Westminster<lb></lb>
or either of than or within the Weekly Bills of Mortality shall be from Six of the Clock in the Morning untill Eight<lb></lb>
of the Clock at Night Excepting only that there shall be Allowed by the Master one penny half penny for Breakfast<lb></lb>
and one from for Dinner in the time aforesaid And for the said time or hours aforesaid there shall be paid into<lb></lb>
every Journeyman Taylor or other Person Employed or to be employed or retained as a Journeyman Taylor for<lb></lb>
his Work during he Hours aforesaid the Wages and Sums following (that is to say) from the 25th. day of March<lb></lb>
to the 24th. day of June any Sum or Sums not exceeding two Shillings a day, and for the rest of the Year One<lb></lb>
Shilling and eight pence a day.</p>
<p n="15">That the Legislature then perceiving it would be reasonable and necessary upon some Occasions<lb></lb>
thereafter to Alter the Wages and hours of Work aforesaid It is thereby further Enacted that it shall and may be<lb></lb>
lawfull to and for the Justices of the peace in their respective Jurisdictions within the Limits aforesaid at their<lb></lb>
General Quarter Sessions And they are thereby authorized and required upon Application to be made to them<lb></lb>
for that purpose to take into their Consideration the Plenty or Scarcity of the time and other Circumstances<lb></lb>
necessary to be considered And to Alter the Wages and hours of Work aforesiad And to Order and Appoint which<lb></lb>
Wages and allowances shall be paid or made to Journeymen Taylors and Servants retained or employed in the<lb></lb>
Art or Mistery of Taylor aforesaid within the Limits aforesaid And what hours they shall Work, and shall<lb></lb>
make such Allerations therein from time to time as such Justices at any such General Sessions shall think fit<lb></lb>
upon Application to be made to them for that purpose And such Justices shall within the space of Fourteen Days next<lb></lb>
after such General Sessions Came such Rates and Atterations from time to time to be Printed Published and made<lb></lb>
known in such manner as to them shall seem meet at the reasonable Expence of any Person or Persons Desiring<lb></lb>
the Same And from and after Publication thereof all Taylors and their Journeymen and Servants within the<lb></lb>
Limits aforesaid are thereby stricktly required to observe the Same upon pain of Imprisonment by such Justices<lb></lb>
for any time not exceeding two Months being lawfully Convicted of such Offence after knowledge and<lb></lb>
Information of any such Rates or Alterations thereof to be made as aforesaid upon any Prosecution to be<lb></lb>
Commenced within Six days after the Offence Committed.</p>
<p n="16">That since the making the above Act the Price of Labour in all Trades and Businesses is much increased<lb></lb>
of which the Master Taylors are so Sensible that the greatest part and most Eminent amongst them have for<lb></lb>
several Years past paid their Journeymen 2s.6d. a day all the year.</p>
<p n="17">That your Petitioners were untill the late Disputes between the Masters and their Journeymen in<lb></lb>
Middlesex intirely Ignorant of the said Act and the Penalties incurred by paying and receiving more Wages<lb></lb>
than by the said Act is allowed for want of having an Order and Appointment made for the payment of the<lb></lb>
Same by your Worships in pursuance of the Power vested in you by the said Act.</p>
<p n="18">That your Petitioners therefore their humbly prayed that your Worships would be pleased to alter the<lb></lb>
Wages and the hours of working mentioned in the Said Act and to Order that the Master Taylors residing<lb></lb>
in the said City should pay unto every Journeyman Taylor for his Work 2s.6d. a day And that the hours of<lb></lb>
Working be appointed to be from Six of the Clock in the Morning to Six of the Clock at Night Or that your<lb></lb>
Worships would be pleased to make such other Order in the Premisses as to your Worships should seem</p>
<p n="19">to That</p>
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