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<p n="683">To the Worshipfull the Justices for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo456">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Assembled<lb></lb>
At the General Quarter Session of the Peace for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo457">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo458">Hicks Hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo459">Saint John Street</rs>
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<p n="684">The humble Petition of the several Master Taylors<lb></lb>
whose Names are hereunto Subscribed, on behalf of<lb></lb>
themselves and of the several other Master Taylors who<lb></lb>
Reside within those parts of the Weekly Bills of Mortality<lb></lb>
which are within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo460">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="685"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
k<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
thence continued by several Adjournments until Thursday the 11th.<lb></lb>
day of the same Month of July Complaint being made unto that<lb></lb>
Court by several Master Taylors that a great many Journeymen<lb></lb>
Taylors had then exacted and insisted to have much greater Wages<lb></lb>
for their Work in making up Mens or Womens Cloaths than were<lb></lb>
Settled and ascertained by an Act of Parliament made in the 7th<lb></lb>
year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the first entitled<lb></lb>
An Act of Regulating the Journeymen Taylors within the<lb></lb>
Weekly Bills of Mortality But that the said Master Taylors in<lb></lb>
Order to prevent such Exactions of the future were willing that<lb></lb>
the Journeymen Taylors should be Allowed greater wages than<lb></lb>
were settled by the said Act of Parliament And for that Purpose<lb></lb>
they then made Application to that Court to Alter the Wages<lb></lb>
mentioned in the said Act and to Settle and Ascertain the Wages<lb></lb>
of the Journeymen Taylors in such manner as the said Court<lb></lb>
Should think reasonable and Just The Court thereupon by Virtue<lb></lb>
of the Power rested in them by the said Act Did Order that<lb></lb>
every Master Taylors inhabiting or residing in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo461">City and<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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or in any other Part of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50527_geo462">County of Middlesex</rs>
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within the Weekly Bills of Mortality should pay unto every<lb></lb>
Journeymen Taylor or other Person employed or to be Employed<lb></lb>
or retained as a Journeyman Taylor for his Work from 6 o Clock<lb></lb>
in the morning until 8 o Clock at Night until excepting only that there<lb></lb>
should be Allowed by the Master three half pence a day for breakfast<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
29th. day of September 2s.6d a Day and from the 29th. day of September<lb></lb>
o the 25th. day of March 2s. a Day instead of the Sums mentioned in</p>
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