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