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That the abovesaid Order continuing only in Force for one year the said Court upon a like Application of Journeyman thereto at their General
Quarter Session of the peace holden for the same City by Adjournment on Friday the second day of February One thousand seven hundred and Fifty three was pleased by an Order
of the same date to Appoint that from that time until further Order the Hours of Work should be from Six in the morning till seven at Night excepting the Master should allow
one hour for dinner and that there should be paid unto every Journeyman Taylor / over and besides said Order three half pence for Breakfast / from the Twenty fifth day of
March to the twenty fourth day of June any Sum not exceeding Two Shillings and Six pence by the Day and for the rest of the year any Sum not exceeding Two Shillings by
the day.

That by a late Petition presented to this Honourable Court Subscribed by several Master Taylor Petitioners residing within the same City and Liberty
in behalf of themselves and other Masters of the said City and Liberty Complaining of several Irregularitys of the said Journeymen working within the same and also of a Disobedience to the Order of this Honourable Court of the Second day of
February One thousand Seven hundred and fifty three It was therefore by said Petition prayed that the said Order as far as relate's to the hours of Work might be repealed
and that the said Hours of Work might be increased to the time mentioned in the said Statute.

That Your Petitioners are very great Stranger to the Irregularities Complained of by the said Masters Petition And if the said Order be repealed
in respect to the hour of Work applied for to be taken off, it will be of the utmost ill Consequence to the health and Eye Sight of your Petitioners and the other Journeymen
Taylor working within the said City and Liberties.

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Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray your Worship's for the
Reasons aforesaid That your Petitoners with the other Journeymen Taylors working with in
the said City and Liberties may be paid by their respective Masters so Employing them the Sum
of Two Shillings and Six pence Day for their hire and Labour all the year through And that the
Hours of Work may be settled, from Six in the Morning until Six in the Evening through
the year; allowing the said Hours every Day for Dinner, and the three half pence for Break [..]
Or otherwise relieve your Petitioners the Journeymen so Comprized in the said Petition [..]
such manner, as this Honourable Court, in it's Great Goodness and Compassion shall see
proper.

And Your Petitioners shall Ever pray Etc.




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