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To the Right Honourable
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Thomas Wright
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Lord Mayor and the Worshipful the Aldermen and
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Recorder his Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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for the City
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of
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in the General Quarter Sessions of the
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Peace assembled
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The humble Petition of the Wardens and Assistants
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of the Fellowship of Carmen London
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Sheweth
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That your Petitioners have for a long time observed
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with concern how very much the Inhabitants resident in Lower
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Thomas Street
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and other Places in this City (where the Stands of
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Carts are appointed) are incommoded and put to very great
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Inconveniences by the continual Standing of Empty Carts not only
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thro' the day time; but much earlier in Summer than is allowed
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by the present Orders of Sessions
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That the Inhabitants thereof have repeatedly with
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your Petitioners) endeavoured to remedy this very great Grievance
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both by Prosecutions, and otherwise without Effect
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That your Petitioners conceive that a great part of the
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Inconvenience arives, by many of the Carmen carrying very large
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and unlawful Loads of certain Goods not particularly specified in
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the present Orders of Sessions, which if the same were properly
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divided it would occasion a greater succession and dispersion of
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the Carts from and off the different Stands
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That your Petitioners in order to regulate and remedy
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this Grievance as far as in them lay have (at a Court of Assistants
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holden at
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Guildhall
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, of the said Wardens and Assistants on the 9th
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day of February 1769. after making the nicest and best Calculations
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they could, made certain Regulations and Ascertained what
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Quantity of Goods of different Sorts (not specefied in the Orders
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of Sessions) ought to be deemed and carried as a Load and
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Endeavoured to have the same observed by every Free Carman by
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dispersing One Thousand Printed Copies thereof amongst the
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whole Body of Carmen one of which said Copies is hereunto
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annexed.
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