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