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<p n="768">To the Right Honorable <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15096_n768-1">Richard Clark</rs>
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Lord Mayor<obscured></obscured>
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and others his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15096_occ292">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the said City as<lb></lb>
at their General Quarter Session of the Peace next after Michaelmas, at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo617">Guildhall</rs>
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<p n="769">The Humble Petition of the several Freemen of the said City Parish<obscured></obscured>
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the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo618">Saint Botolph Aldgate</rs>
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in the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo619">Portsoken</rs>
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in the said City whose<obscured></obscured>
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Subscribed.</p>
<p n="770"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth</note>
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That many Persons daily frequent the Streets and other Places in the said City and the Liberties thereof hawkins<lb></lb>
Cloaths and various other Articles to the very great and material Injury of the Tradesmen and Shopkeepers within the said City (and amongst<lb></lb>
who pay large Rents and Taxes for their Houses and Premises wherein they exercise and carry on their respective Trades and Businesses and<obscured></obscured>
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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<lb></lb>
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<obscured></obscured>
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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<lb></lb>
carrying on their respective Trades and Businesses where they at present do and for considerable time past have exercised and carried on<lb></lb>
to quit their present Houses and Habitations and retire out of the City</p>
<p n="771">That by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the twenty fifth Year of his present Majesty's Reign Intituled An Act<obscured></obscured>
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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<lb></lb>
"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<lb></lb>
"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<lb></lb>
"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<lb></lb>
"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<obscured></obscured>
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"<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo620">England</rs>
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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<obscured></obscured>
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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<obscured></obscured>
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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<obscured></obscured>
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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<lb></lb>
"some Publick Newspaper Published or circulated in such County City or Town respectively" And by the said Act it is also provided an<obscured></obscured>
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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<lb></lb>
"of the Provisions in this Act contained such Hawker Pedlar or Petty Chapman or other Trading Person shall be subject and liable to<obscured></obscured>
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"this Act inflicted on Hawkers Pedlars or Petty Chapmen or other nading Persons travelling without Licences</p>
<p n="772">That your Petitioners are ready to prove the several Allegations in this their Petition<lb></lb>
shall think proper for them so to do And the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15096_geo621">City of London</rs>
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being a County of itself</p>
<p n="773">Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray that this Honorable Beaman<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions of the Peace being next after Michaelmas to make an Order that the<obscured></obscured>
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and other Trading Persons aforesaid shall not have Liberty to send their Goods and<lb></lb>
London or the Liberties thereof under the like Penalties inflicted by the said Acton Hawkings<lb></lb>
or other trading Persons travelling without Licence And<del>that you</del>
Also order Non<obscured></obscured>
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of such Order as may be made in the Premises in some publick Newspaper Publick<lb></lb>
said City or that this Honorable Bench will be<obscured></obscured>
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