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<p n="669">To the Worshipful The Justices for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo445">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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Assembled at the General Quarter Session of<lb></lb>
the Peace for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo446"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo447">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo448">Hicks's Hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo449">St John Street</rs>
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<p n="670">The humble Petition of the several Master Taylor<lb></lb>
whose Names are hereunto subscribed, on behalf of themselves<lb></lb>
and of the several other Master Taylors who reside within<lb></lb>
those parts of the Weekly Bills of Mortality which are within<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo450">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="671"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden for<lb></lb>
the said County on Monday the 1st. day of July 1751. and from thence<lb></lb>
continued by several Adjournment until Thursday the 11th. day of the same<lb></lb>
Month of July Complaint being made unto that Court by Several<lb></lb>
Master Taylor That a great many Journeymen Taylors had then<lb></lb>
exacted and insisted to have much greater Wages for their Work in<lb></lb>
making up Mens or Womens Cloaths than were settled and ascertained<lb></lb>
by an Act of Parliament made in the 7th. year of the Reign of His<lb></lb>
Majesty King George the first entitled An Act for Regulating<lb></lb>
the Journeymen Taylors within the Weekly Bills of<lb></lb>
Mortality, But that the said Master Taylors in order prevent<lb></lb>
such Exactions for the future were willing that the Journeymen Taylors<lb></lb>
should be allowed greater Wages than were settled by the said Act of<lb></lb>
Parliament And for that purpose They then made Application to that<lb></lb>
Court to Alter the Wages mentioned in the said Act and to Settle and<lb></lb>
Ascertain the Wages of the Journeymen Taylors in Such manner as the<lb></lb>
said Court should think reasonable and just The Court thereupon by<lb></lb>
vertue of the Power vested in them by the said Act Did Order That<lb></lb>
every Master Taylor inhabiting or residing in the City & Liberty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo451">Westminster</rs>
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or in any other part of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo452">County of Middlesex</rs>
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within the weekly Bills<lb></lb>
of Mortality should pay unto every Journeyman Taylor or other Person<lb></lb>
employed or to oe employed or retained as a Journeyman Taylor for his Work<lb></lb>
from 6 o' Clock in the Morning until 8 o' Clock at Night excepting only<lb></lb>
that there should be allowed by the Master Three hall pence a Day for<lb></lb>
Breakfast and one Hour for Dinner in the time aforesaid The Wages and<lb></lb>
Sums following that is to say from the 25th. day of March to the 29th day<lb></lb>
of September 2s.6d a Day and fro the 29th day of September to the<lb></lb>
25th. day of March 2s. a Day instead of the Sums mentioned in the<lb></lb>
aforesaid Act.</p>
<p n="672">That at the General Sessions of the Peace holden for the said<lb></lb>
County at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo453">Hicks's Hall</rs>
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aforesaid on Monday the 13th. of September 1756<lb></lb>
and</p>
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