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Quarter Session of the peace for the same a City assembled.
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The humble Petition of the several Master Taylors of the City of
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London whose Names are hereunto subscribed on behalf of themselves
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and the rest of the Master Taylors of the same City.
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Most humbly Sheweth
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That by the Act of Parliament made in the seventh Year
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of His present Majestys Reign intituled And Act for Regulating the
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Journey men Taylors within the Weekly Bills of Mortality It was enacted
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that the Hours of Work for all Journeymen Taylors Servants and Appren-
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and the Weekly
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Bills of Mortality should be from six of the Clock in the Morning until
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eight of the Clock at Night; excepting only that there should be allowed
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by the Master one penny half penny a Day for Breakfast and one
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Hour for Dinner in the time aforesaid; and that for the said time or Hours
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of Work aforesaid there should be paid unto every Journeyman Taylor
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for his Work during the Hours aforesaid the Wages and
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ins following
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that is to say from the five and Twentieth Day of March to the four and
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Twentieth Day of June any Sum not exceeding two Shillings per Diem;
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and for the Rest of the Year one Shilling and eight Pence per Diem.
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That before the passing of that law the usual Hours of Work
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for the Journeymen Taylors were greater and their Wages less; but several
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Combinatione having arose from time to time
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gst the Journey men
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as appears by the Preamble of that Statute, to raise their Wages and
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lessen their Hours of Work, the plain Intent of that law was to prevent
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those Disputes for the future.
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But such Statute having given the
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at their
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General Quarter Sessions, in their respective Jurisdictions within the
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aforesaid Limits, power and Authority, upon Sp
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such Alterations in the Hours of Work and Wages as they should think
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fit, The
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were pleased at their
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