To the Right Honourable John Sawbridge< no role >
Esquire Lord Mayor of the City of London
and the Worshipful the Alderman his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the
same City at their General Quarter Sessions
of the Peace assembled

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

Sheweth

That for sometime past the common Market
Price of middling British Oats at the new Corn
market in Mark Lane hath exceeded the Sum of
sixteen Shillings the Quarter-the Continuance whereof
your Petitioner apprechend will prove very detrimental
to the City in general and to your Petitioners in particular

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

Your Petitioners therefore
most humbly pray that this Honble.
Court will take their case into
consideration and proceed to examine
and determine the Common Market
Price of middling British Oats
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 every pray Etc.