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To the Right Honourable Stephen Theodore Janssen< no role > Esquire Lord Mayor of the
City of London and others his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the same City in the General Quarter
Session of the Peace for the same City Assembled on Monday the Twentieth Day of October next
Ensuing.

The Petition of the several Journeymen Taylor whose Names are hereunder Subscribed on the behalf of
themselves and the rest of the said Journeymen Taylor working within the said City and Liberties.

Most Humbly Sheweth

That by an Act of Parliament made in the Seventh year of his late Majesty's Reign Intitules an Act for
Regulating the Journeymen Taylor within the Weekly Bills of [..] City / it was amongst other things Enacted) That from and [..]
Thousand Seven hundred and Twenty One the Hours of Work for all Journeymen Taylor Servants and Apprentices to Taylor within the Cities of London and
Westminster or within the Weekly Bills of Mortality should be from Six of the Clock in the Morning until Eight of the Clock at Night Excepting only that there should be
Allowed by the Master one penny half penny a day for Breakfast and one Hour for Dinner in the time aforesaid & that for the said time or Hours of Work aforesaid there should
be paid unto every Journeyman Taylor for his Work during the hours aforesaid the Wages and Sums following (that is to say) from the five and twentieth day of
March to the four and twentieth day of June any Sum not exceeding two Shillings per Diem and for the rest of the year one Shilling and Eight pence per Diem.

And Your Petitioners further Shew that the Legislator foreseeing that there might be Occasion to Alter the said Wages and Hours or Work according to
the Scarcity or plenty of the time and other Circumstances of the Case It is by the said Act further Enacted that it shall and may be Lawful to and for the Justices of the peace
in their respective Jurisdictions within the limits aforesaid at their General Quarter Sessions and they are thereby Authorized and Required upon Application to be made
to them for that purpose to take into their Consideration the Scarcity or plenty of the time and other Circumstances necessarily to be Considered and to Alter the Wages and
hours of Work aforesaid and to Order and Appoint what wages and Allowances shall be paid or made to Journeymen Taylors and Servants retained or Employed in the
Art or Mystery of a Taylor as aforesaid within the limits aforesaid and what hours they shall work and shall make such Alterations therein from time to time as such Justice
at any such General Quarter Sessions shall think fit upon Application to be made to them for that purpose

That Your Petitioners further Humbly Shew that the Master Taylor living and residing within the City of London and Liberties thereof are a
Numerous Body of Men and Employ many Journeymen in their Business many of whom have Families and cannot Subsist by the Wages mentioned in the said Act and have
Injured their Constitutions and weakned their Eyes by working at their said Trade by Day light and Candlelight the length of time mentioned in the said Statute and therefore
several of the said Journeymen on the behalf of themselves and the rest of the said Journeymen working within the said City and Liberties in a Dutiful and respectful manner
at the General Quarter Session of the Peace holden for the same City by adjournment on Friday the Twenty fifth day of October One thousand Seven hundred and Fifty one
presented their Petition to the said Court praying to be relieved both respect to their Wages and Hours of Work upon which the said Court was then pleased by an Order of the
Date to vary the Journeymens Wages mentioned in the said Act from two Shillings to Two Shillings and Six pence for the Spring Quarters and from one Shilling and Eight
pence to [..] and the [..]
excepting only that there shall be allowed by the Master one hour for [..] nner in the time aforesaid.