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<p n="173">To The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of<lb></lb>
the City of London and the Rest of His Majesty's Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace for the said City in their General Quarter<lb></lb>
Session assembled</p>
<p n="174">The humble Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15085_n174-1">Henry White</rs>
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Citizen and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15085_occ38">Weaver</rs>
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of London.</p>
<p n="175"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That by an Order made at the General Quarter Session<lb></lb>
of the Peace of our Lord the King holden for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15085_geo96">City of London</rs>
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as the Guildhall within the said City by Adjournment on<lb></lb>
Friday the fifth Day of November last past in Pursuance of<lb></lb>
an Act of Parliament made and Passed in the thirteenth Year<lb></lb>
of the Regin of His present Majesty intituled an Act to empower<lb></lb>
the Magistrates therein mentioned to settle and regulate the<lb></lb>
Wages of Persons employed in the Silk Manufacture within,<lb></lb>
their respective Jurisdictions the Justices their present did settle<lb></lb>
regulate order and declare the wages and prices of Work of<lb></lb>
the Journeymen Weavers working within the City of London<lb></lb>
in the single HandLooms of the narrow Branch of the<lb></lb>
Silk Manufacture.</p>
<p n="176">That among other things in the said Order mentioned<lb></lb>
certain Wages and Prices of Work are specified and setforth<lb></lb>
the making of Love Ribbons in which Branch of Business<lb></lb>
a great Number of Persons have been usually employed by<lb></lb>
Your Petitioner but on Account of such Wages and Prices of<lb></lb>
Work being much higher than had been for some time before<lb></lb>
the making of that Order paid to Journeymen Weavers in<lb></lb>
that Branch many Persons are unemployed therein and<lb></lb>
if such wages and prices of Work should continue Your</p>
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