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General Quarter Session holden for the same City by Adjournment on Friday
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the 25th. Day of October 1751, upon the Application of the Journey men Taylors,
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to raise their Wages from Two Shillings to Two Shillings and six Pence P Diem
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for the Spring Quarter, and from one Shilling and eight Pence to two Shillings
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for the Remainder of the year (over and above the three half Pence allowed
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for their Breakfast) and to lessen their Hours of Work by appointing it
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from six in the Morning till Seven in the Evening only.
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That such Order containning in force only for one Year The Justice
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of the Peace for the same City were afterwards pleased at the General
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Quarter Session holden for the same City by Adjournment, on Friday the
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second Day of February 1753, upon the like Application of the
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Taylors
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, to make the like Alleration in the Premisses, both as to the Hours
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of Work and Wages, and to appoint that the same should so continue untill
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further Order to the Contrary.
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But at the time of making such Order the Court were pleased to
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declare that the Continuance of it should extirely depend upon the Conform
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of the Journeymen, and that if they should abuse the Indulgence thereby
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shewn them, that they would then made such Alteration in the Premes
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as the Nature of the Case should require.
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That Your Petitioners on their Parts with the greatest Chearfulness
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submitted to the Order, in Hopes it might have proved the Means of putting
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an End to all Disputes in this City between them and their Journeymen.
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That this Order was also observed by the
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till the
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24th. Day of June last, at which time the Journeymen entred into a Combina-
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tion, and have ever since refused to work for the Wages prescribed by the
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Order.
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That such proceedings in the Journey men is of the last Inconvenient
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to the Publick, as well as Your Petitioners, and it is with the utmost
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Reluctance Your Petitioners now trouble this Honourable Court with
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their Complaint
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But Your petitioners from Experience are fully convinced that
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the Indulgence which has been shower the
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has been abused
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