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<p n="457">To the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15086_occ88">Right Honourable</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n457-1">John Wilkes</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15086_occ90">Lord Mayor</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15086_geo168">City of London</rs>
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and the Worshipful the Aldermen his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the <lb></lb>
same City at their General Quarter Sessions<lb></lb>
of the Peace assembled</p>
<p n="458">The Humble Petition of the<lb></lb>
several Consumers of Wheat Barley<lb></lb>
and Oats within the City of London<lb></lb>
and the Liberties thereof</p>
<p n="459"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That for sometime past the common Market<lb></lb>
Prices of middling British Wheat middling British<lb></lb>
Barley and middling British Oats at the new Corn Market<lb></lb>
in Mark Lane have exceeded the Sums following to wit<lb></lb>
middling British Wheat the Sum of forty Eight Shillings<lb></lb>
the Quarter middling British Barley the Sum of twenty<lb></lb>
four Shillings the Quarter and middling British Oats<lb></lb>
the Sum of sixteen Shillings the Quarter the Continuance<lb></lb>
whereof your Petitioners apprehend will prove very<lb></lb>
detrimental to the City in General and to your Petitioners<lb></lb>
in particular</p>
<p n="460">That Your Petitioners are ready to made the<lb></lb>
Truth hereof appear and to prove the same insuch manner<lb></lb>
as by the Statutes in that behalf is required</p>
<p n="461">Your Petitioners therefore most humbly<lb></lb>
pray that this Honble. Court will take their<lb></lb>
Case into Consideration and proceed to examine<lb></lb>
and determine the common Market Prices<lb></lb>
of middling British Wheat middling<lb></lb>
British Barley and middling British<lb></lb>
Oats as the same are now and have been<lb></lb>
lately bought and sold in the Markets of<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
this City and to certify the same to his<lb></lb>
Majesty's Chief Officer and Collector of the<lb></lb>
Customs in such manner as by the Statutes<lb></lb>
in this behalf is required and directed</p>
<p n="462">And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc.</p>
<p n="463"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15086_n463-1">Rob Holders</rs>
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. for Petrs.</p>
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