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To the Right Honourable
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his Majesty's Justices of the Peace at there
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General Quarter Sessions of the Peace
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The Humble Petition of the
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several Importers of Middling
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British Rape Seed within the City
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That for some time past the Common Market
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Price of middling British Rape Seed at the New Corn
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Market in Mark Lane hath exceeded the Sum of
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seventeen Pounds and ten Shillings per Lastthe
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continuance whereof your Petitioners apprehend will
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prove very detrimental to the City in General and to
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your Petitioners in particular
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That your Petitoners are ready to make
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the Truth hereof appear and to prove the same in
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such manner as by the Statutes in that behalf is required
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Your Petitioners therefore most
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humbly pray that this Honourable Court
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the common Market Price of Middling
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British Rape Seed as the same is now
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and has been lately bought and sold in
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the Markets of this City and to certify
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the same to his Majesty's Chief Offices
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and Collector of the Customes in such
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manner as by the Statutes in this behalf
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And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc
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