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<p n="536">To the Worshipfull Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50714_n536-1">John<lb></lb>
Hawkins</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50714_occ245">Knight</rs>
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and the rest<lb></lb>
of his Majesty's Justices of the <lb></lb>
Peace assembled at their General<lb></lb>
Quarter Session of the Peace at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50714_geo493">Hicks Hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50714_geo494">Saint John Street</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50714_geo495">County of Middlesex</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="537">The Humble Petition of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50714_occ246">Journeymen<lb></lb>
Weavers</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50714_occ246" type="occupation" value="JourneymenWeavers"></interp>
in the Narrow Fancy Trimming Branch<lb></lb>
of the Silk Manufacture in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50714_geo496">County of Middlesex</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="538"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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<p n="539">That in pursuance of an Act of Parliament made and <lb></lb>
passed in the thirteenth Year of his present Majesty's Reign,<lb></lb>
intituled, "An Act to impower the Magistrates therein mentioned<lb></lb>
"to settle and regulate the Wages of persons employed in the Silk<lb></lb>
"Manufacture within their respective Jurisdictions" the Wages and <lb></lb>
Prices of Work of your Petitioners in the above branch of the Silk<lb></lb>
Manufacture within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50714_geo497">County of Middlesex</rs>
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were settled, regulated<lb></lb>
and declared by his Majestys Justices for the said County at their<lb></lb>
General Quarter Session of the Peace holden in the Month of<lb></lb>
January one thousand seven hundred and seventy four And<lb></lb>
a printed Book containing the Wages and Prices agreed on between<lb></lb>
the Masters and their <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50714_occ247">Journeymen</rs>
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and settled regulated and declared by<lb></lb>
the said Justices as aforesaid was ordered to be kept by the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50714_occ248">Clerk of<lb></lb>
the Peace</rs>
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at his Office for the inspection and perusal of all persons<lb></lb>
concerned and that the Order of Court then made should within the<lb></lb>
space of Fourteen days next following be published three times in two<lb></lb>
of the Daily Newspapers published in London or <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50714_geo498">Westminster</rs>
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as by<lb></lb>
the said Order may more fully and at large appear.</p>
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