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To the Right Honorable
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Richard Clark
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and others his Majesty's
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for the said City as
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at their General Quarter Session of the Peace next after Michaelmas, at the
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The Humble Petition of the several Freemen of the said City Parish
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the Parish of
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in the Ward of
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in the said City whose
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Humbly Sheweth
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That many Persons daily frequent the Streets and other Places in the said City and the Liberties thereof hawkins
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Cloaths and various other Articles to the very great and material Injury of the Tradesmen and Shopkeepers within the said City (and amongst
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who pay large Rents and Taxes for their Houses and Premises wherein they exercise and carry on their respective Trades and Businesses and
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of the said City to entitle them to carry on their said Trades and Businesses in the said City and often assemble in great Numbers in a turned
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the free Passage of the Streets and Avenues to the great Annoyance of the Publick in General and Particulary of the Inhabitants of such Parish
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assemble and to such an Heighth is the said Evil or Grievance of late grown that unless the same be speedily remedied many of your Petitioner
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carrying on their respective Trades and Businesses where they at present do and for considerable time past have exercised and carried on
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to quit their present Houses and Habitations and retire out of the City
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That by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the twenty fifth Year of his present Majesty's Reign Intituled An Act
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"additionall Duties on Hawkers Pedlars and Petty Chapmen and for requlating their Trade"It is (amongst after Things) Enacted"that it any such
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"Chapman or other Trading Person so travelling as aforesaid shall from and after the said first day of August One thousand seven hundred and eighty five
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"without or contrary or otherwise than shall be allowed by such Licence" to be granted by virtue of the said Act" such Person shall for each and every
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"of Ten Pounds to be recovered and applied as thereafter mentioned" And by the said Act It is provided and enacted" That it shall not be lawfull
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"Petty Chapman or other trading Person travelling as aforesaid to vend his or her Goods or Wares in any Country or City being a Country of itself or Town being
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or Walls by virtue of any such Licence to be granted by virtue of the said Act as aforesaid in Case the Justices assembled at the General
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"Peace shall have made an Order that Hawkins Pedlars Petty Chapmen and other Trading Persons as aforesaid shall not have Liberty to ven
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"in such County City or Town upon Pain of forfeiting for every such Offence the Sum of Ten Pounds And that no such Order shall at any time be
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"Quarter Sessions next after Michaelmas to be holden for such County City or Town and not be in force till nine Months after Notice shall have be
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"some Publick Newspaper Published or circulated in such County City or Town respectively" And by the said Act it is also provided an
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if any Hawker Pedlar or Petty Chapman or any trading Person shall vend any Goods Wares or Merchandises in any such County City To
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"of the Provisions in this Act contained such Hawker Pedlar or Petty Chapman or other Trading Person shall be subject and liable to
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"this Act inflicted on Hawkers Pedlars or Petty Chapmen or other nading Persons travelling without Licences
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That your Petitioners are ready to prove the several Allegations in this their Petition
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shall think proper for them so to do And the
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being a County of itself
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Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray that this Honorable Beaman
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Quarter Sessions of the Peace being next after Michaelmas to make an Order that the
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and other Trading Persons aforesaid shall not have Liberty to send their Goods and
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London or the Liberties thereof under the like Penalties inflicted by the said Acton Hawkings
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or other trading Persons travelling without Licence And
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that you
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Also order Non
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of such Order as may be made in the Premises in some publick Newspaper Publick
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said City or that this Honorable Bench will be
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