To the Right Honourable Frederick
Bull< no role > Esquire Lord Mayor of the City
of London and to the Worshipfull the
Aldermen his Majesty's Justices of the
Peace for the same City at their General
Quarter Session of the Peace assembled

The Humble Petition of the
several Consumers of Barley
within the City of London and the
Liberties thereof

Sheweth

That lately the common Market price of midling
British Barley at the new Corn Market in Mark Lane
has exceeded the Sum of twenty four Shillings the Quarter
the continuance whereof your Petitioners apprehend must
prove very detrimental to the City in General and to your
Petitioners in particular

That your Petitioners are ready to make the
Truth hereof appear and to prove the same in such manner
as by the Statutes in that behalf is required

Wherefore your Petitioners most humbly
pray that this Honourable Court will take
their Case into Consideration and proceed to
examine and determine the common Market
price of middling British Barley as the
same is now and hath been lately bought
and sold in the Markets of this City and to
certify the same to his Majesty's Chief
Officer and Collector of the Customs in such
manner as by the Statutes in this behalf is
required and directed

And your Petitioners shall ever pray Etc

Rob Holder< no role > . for
the sd. Consumers