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<p n="253"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50594_geo311">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
To the Worshipfull the Chairman and<lb></lb>
other his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50594_occ98">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50594_geo312">County of Middlesex</rs>
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at their present<lb></lb>
Session Assembled</p>
<p n="254">The Humble Petition of the Under signed<lb></lb>
Labourers and Workmen by the Week Labouring<lb></lb>
and Working in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50594_geo313">County of Middlesex</rs>
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on Behalf<lb></lb>
<del>an Behalf</del>
of themselves and other their Fellow<lb></lb>
Labourers and Workmen in the like Station and<lb></lb>
Employment</p>
<p n="255"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioners are Employed by the Silk<lb></lb>
Throwers and their Hours of Work are thirteen out of<lb></lb>
which they are allowed half an Hour for Breakfast<lb></lb>
and the like only for Dinner</p>
<p n="256">That their Wages is eleven Shillings a Week But that<lb></lb>
they very seldom can receive it, For being allowed but<lb></lb>
half an Hour to go to Dinner and return to Work again<lb></lb>
they are frequently necessitated to exceed the Time and<lb></lb>
if but a few Minutes over there are many more Minutes<lb></lb>
(and often half an hour) deducted for it</p>
<p n="257">That they constantly Work in Water and thereby often<lb></lb>
loose the Use of their Limbs</p>
<p n="258">That most of your Petr: have Wives and many Children<lb></lb>
to maintain and frequently are out of Work; for want of<lb></lb>
Employment and on Hollydays your Petrs. are not permitted<lb></lb>
by their Masters to Work at all</p>
<p n="259">That at this Time and for some Time past Provision and</p>
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