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To The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of
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the City of London and the Rest of His Majesty's Justices
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of the Peace for the said City in their General Quarter
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Session assembled
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The humble Petition of
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Henry White
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Citizen and
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Weaver
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of London.
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Sheweth
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That by an Order made at the General Quarter Session
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of the Peace of our Lord the King holden for the
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as the Guildhall within the said City by Adjournment on
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Friday the fifth Day of November last past in Pursuance of
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an Act of Parliament made and Passed in the thirteenth Year
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of the Regin of His present Majesty intituled an Act to empower
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the Magistrates therein mentioned to settle and regulate the
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Wages of Persons employed in the Silk Manufacture within,
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their respective Jurisdictions the Justices their present did settle
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regulate order and declare the wages and prices of Work of
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the Journeymen Weavers working within the City of London
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in the single HandLooms of the narrow Branch of the
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Silk Manufacture.
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That among other things in the said Order mentioned
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certain Wages and Prices of Work are specified and setforth
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the making of Love Ribbons in which Branch of Business
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a great Number of Persons have been usually employed by
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Your Petitioner but on Account of such Wages and Prices of
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Work being much higher than had been for some time before
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the making of that Order paid to Journeymen Weavers in
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that Branch many Persons are unemployed therein and
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if such wages and prices of Work should continue Your
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