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To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Recorder of the
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at
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their General Quarter Sessions or General Sessions of the Peace assembled
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The Humble Petition of the several Journeymen Taylors whose Names are hereunto
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subscribed on Behalf of themselves the rest of the Journeymen Taylor working within the
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and five Miles thereof
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Sheweth
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That by an Act of Parliament made in the Eight Year of his present Majesty's Reign. It is Enacted "That
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from the 25th. day of March 1768 the Hours for Work in the Day for Servants or
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Journeymen
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to be employed in the Business of
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the
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and five Miles thereof shall be from 6 of the Clock in the Morning untill 7 of the Clock in the
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Evening with an Interval of One Hour only for Infreshment and that there shall be paid to every such Journeymen to be
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employed as aforesaid for his Work during the Hours aforesaid the Wages or Allowances following that is to say, Any Sum
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not exceeding Two Shillings and Seven Pence Half penny per diem except during the Space of one Calendar Month
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from the Publication of any Order for a General Morning by the Earl Marshall in the London Gazette and during that
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Space any Sum not exceeding Five Shillings and one Penny Half penny
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That by the said Act It is further Enacted that of any Master Taylor within the Limits aforesaid
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shall give allow as pay or Cause permiter safer to be given allowed or paid directly or indirectly in Money or otherwise to any Servant
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or Journeyman in the Business of a Taylor any more or greater Wages or Allowances than the Wages or Allowances
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aforesaid or such other Wages or Allowances as shall thereafter from time to time be ordered and appointed by Virtue
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and in Pursuance of the said Act or if any Journeyman shall have receive, accept of or take in any Manner directly
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or indirectly by himself or any other Person to his Use more or greater Wages or Allowances than as aforesaid in Money
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or otherwise every Person so offending in any or either of the said Cases and being thereof convicted in Manner in the said
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Act specified shall be committed to the House of Conviction there to be kept to hard Labour, or to
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the Common
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Gaol for anytime
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not exceeding two Months nor less than Fourteen Days
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That by the said Act It is also further Enacted that it shall and may be Lawful to and for the Mayor
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Aldermen and Recorder of the
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for the time being at their General Quarter Sessions or General Sessions
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of the Peace assembled And they are thereby authorized and required from time to time upon Application being made
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to them for that Purpose to alter regulate order add appoint the Wages and Allowances to be paid or made to
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Journeymen Taylors and Servants retained or employed in the Art or Mistery of a Taylor within the Limits aforesaid
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and shall and may within the Space of Fourteen Days next after the making every such Order cause the same to be
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printed published and made known in such Manner as to them shall seem meet at the reasonable Expence of the
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for the same And from and after Publication thereof all Taylors and their
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and Sewers within the Limits aforesaid are thereby
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the same Provided always
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That advertizing such Orders of Sessions three times in any two Daily News Papers published in London or
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Shall
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for the Purposes of the said Act be deemed and allowed to be sufficient Notice and Publications thereof
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That since making the said Act all kinds of Provisions and Necessaries of Life are so greatly increased in Price
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that your Petitioners many of whom have Large Familys are not able to support themselves and Familys in their
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Present Wages of Two Shillings and Seven Peace Halfpenny per Day
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That your Petitioners are not only estrained by the said Act from receiving any Increase of Wages without
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the Lease of this Court but also apprehend askey are informed that they cannot without increasing of Penalties by
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the said Acting Acted receive any Bounty or Assistance whatsoever towards maintaining themselves and Familys
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from
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