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<p n="241">That their Hour of Work commences at six O'Clock in the Morning both in Winter and<lb></lb>
Summer & that but a few of your Petitioners Trade being able to get constant Work with the name<lb></lb>
Master are frequently obliged to go from one End of the Town to the other before their said Hour of Work and are<lb></lb>
frequently discharged in the Middle of a Day and at such a distance from the Houses or Places of Call as not<lb></lb>
only to accasion the loss of the Remainder of the Day impossible to be avoided but to loose them much Time<lb></lb>
in the Year.</p>
<p n="242">That your Petitioners not only for the Conveniency of the Masters and Tradesmen but that<lb></lb>
they may have equal Opportunities of employ and maintaining themselves and Families enter into<lb></lb>
Companies or Society's and keep their Names in Books and from thence go to Work by rotation and<lb></lb>
have been used to keep or subscribe to benefit Societies from 18s.. to 20s. a Years in the whole to relieve<lb></lb>
or maintain them in Case of Sickness but that from the difference in their Wages & the hight Price of<lb></lb>
Provisions they are incapable of continuing their Payments to any such Benefit Societies and have thereby<lb></lb>
many of them been Obliged to forfeit their Interest thereto, and must inevitably in Case of Sickness<lb></lb>
become burthen some to their respective Parishes.</p>
<p n="243">That by reason of their Working in close and confined Places and by Candle Light their Eyes<lb></lb>
are in general so greatly affected that great many of your Petitioners Trade are disabled from Working<lb></lb>
at their Business after they are 40 Years of Age and by means thereof are not only frequently rejected by<lb></lb>
the Masters at the Age of 40 merely on that Account, but are presented from being employed in any<lb></lb>
other kinds of Labour.</p>
<p n="244">That not only during the present but late General Mourning the Master Taylors have refused<lb></lb>
giving your Petitioners double Wages agreeable to the late Act or more than the Common Price of<lb></lb>
2s. 7½d. P Day.</p>
<p n="245">That your Petitioners have all of them carefully avoided assembling in any tumultuous<lb></lb>
manner or mixing with any Crowds of People whatever in these riotous Times, and that on Monday<lb></lb>
the 16th. day of last Month when your Petitioners went to lay their Case before the Honourable the House<lb></lb>
of Commons they behaved with all Decency and have never given made or joined in making or<lb></lb>
giving any Noise Offence or Disturbance whatsoever as they have been informed and believe.</p>
<p n="246">Your Petitioners therefore most humbly Pray that this<lb></lb>
Court will please to take their Case under their most serious<lb></lb>
Consideration and allow them Wages after the Rate of three<lb></lb>
Shillings a Day, and that this court will be Pleased to give such<lb></lb>
other Relief and Redross as the nature of their Case requires<lb></lb>
and to this Court shall seem meet.</p>
<p n="247">And your Petitioners shall ever Pray Etc.</p>
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