To the Chairman and the rest of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex

The Humble Petition of the Journeymen Labouring in that Branch of the Silk Manufacture
called Orrice Weaving in Behalf of Themselves and there Families.

Sheweth

That by an Act of Parliament made in the Reign of his Present Majesty
King George the Third (Intitled An Act to Impower the Magistrates therein Mentioned to
Settle and Regulate the Wages of Persons Employed in the Silk Manufacture within there Respective Jurisdictions
Your Petitioners are Authorized to Apply to Your Worships for Redress.

That there being at Present some Differences Subsisting Between your Petitioners and there
Respective Masters Relative to the Prices of a few Articles which was Confirm'd in the City of London on the 26th of
October 1774 Therefore we the Journeymen in the Aforesaid Branch Humbly Crave Your Worships Protection in
Confirming the same in Your Worships Jurisdictions

That Your Petitioners Considering the Great Duty Incumbent upon them of doing every thing
Within there Power to Provide for there Families and against there future Necessities, And the Excessive high Price of
Almost every Necessary of Life rendering it Absolutely Imposible to Exist with any Comfort to Themselves if they
are Deprived of the full Value of there Labour, And as they have Acted in no Manner Unworthy Themselves or Against
the Peace and good Order of Government, They look up to and hope for Your Worships kind Protection, As far
as shall Legally Appear to be Equitable and Just.