To the Right Honble Frederick Bull< no role > Esquire Lord
Mayor of the City of London and to the Worshipful the
Aldermen his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the
same City at their general Quarter Session of the
Peace assembled

The humble Petition of the Master Wardens and Society of
Innholders of the City of London on behalf of themselves and
other the Consumers of Oats in the said City of London

Sheweth

That lately the common Market Price of middling English
Oats at the new Corn Market in Mark Lane has exceeded the Sum
of sixteen 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 thereof
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 for
middling English Oats as the same is now and
hath been lately bought and sold in the Market
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