To the Right Honourable Daniel Lambert< no role > Esquire Lord Mayor
of the City of London and the Rest of the Justices of the Peace for the said
City in their Quarter Sessions Assembled

The Humble Petition of the Several Innholders Stable Keepers Hackney Coachmen and other [..]
Consumer of Oats whose Names are Subscribed hereunto on the Behalf of themselves and
all others the Consumers of Oats in and about the City of London

Sheweth

That Your Petitioners in the Month of October last applied to this Honourable Court representing the great Scarcity of Oats
and the High prices of that Grain at Bear Keys Market and the great Hardships Your Petitioners then lay under on Account of the Ports being
street , and the Importation of Foreign Oats thereby prevented, and it appearing by Affidavit that the Prices of Midling English Oats then greatly
Exceeded the Price Limited by the Act of Parliament This Court was pleased to Order the Port of London to be opened and to Certify the Price
accordingly to the Cheif Officer and Collector of his Majesties Customs there

That altho the Port has been Opened and Foreign Oats Imported yet the Crops fell so short in all parts of this Kingdom which with the
great Demand of Oats in Scotland the Prices have still kept up so Extravagantly high that your Petitioners have laboured under the greates Dilk [..] ltys
for these Six Months past and should the Portbe shut at this time. It must be the utter Ruin of Your Petitioners
and many of the Trade must be obliged to leave off since by the high Prices of Oats with that of Hay and Straw their Business has been carried on
with Loss

That Your Petitioners are now ready to prove to this Honourable Court that the Prices of Midling English Oats now Exceed the
Price specified in the Act and that so far from being to Sufficient Quantity left in the Kingdomfor the Supply of this City. That Scotland and [..]
North of England which this City usually depended other Supply are no in such Want that they have been and still must be supplied [..]
will certainly take off what Little remains in Cambridgeshire the Only Place that has any left for the Supply of other Countys And as that
Country has been the only part that has supplied this City as also the Northwith Oates they themselves are now in a Manner quite Exhausted
so that Your Petitioners humbly apprehended if the Port of London should not be Continued to be kept opennot only this City but
all the Capital Towns in England will be reduced to the greatest Hardships

Your Petitioners therefore pray this Honourable Court to Certify the Prices
of Oats to the Collector of the Customs of this Port according to the Affidavit hereunto a
and [..] and is Case any application shall be made to this Honourable Court to shut [..]
Port That Your Petitioners may be heard by themselves and their Council against such [..]
Application And Your Petitioners shall ever Pray Etc

Francis Hotford< no role >
Henry Tame< no role >
Thomas Smith< no role >
Jno. Butler< no role >

Bridgeman Brown< no role >
Thomas Leighton< no role >
Wm Merryman< no role >

Richd Roybould< no role >
Moses Notherwood< no role >

William Kendall< no role >
Edward Thompson< no role >