Middlesex
To the Worshipfull The Chairman and the
rest of his Majesties Jutices of The Peace
Acting in and
for the County of Middlesex
At their General Quarter
Session Assembled
The Humble Petition of the several Master
Silk Weavers
or Manufaeturers whose Names are
hereto Subscribed on the Behalf of themselves
and the rest of those Masters or Manufacturers
in General
Shewath
That your Petitioners are all of them Manufacturers resiant in
and near the parish of Christ Church Spitalfield
in the County of
Middlesex
That sometime since certain of the Journeymen Exercising
the said Trade of a Weaver
(who for the Immediate Support of themselves
and Families and that they might not be entirely Destitute
of Employ had for a Considerable time Past Worked as Journeymen
in the said Trade at an under Price) made Application to your
Petitioners and divers Others of the Manufacturers in the
Neighbourhood of Spitalfields
aforesaid desiring them to use their
Endeavours to Settle and Ascertain the Prices which ought to be
Paid for making the Differrent kind of Works Manufactured in
Common by your Petitioners themselves and the rest of the Manufactures
using the said trade
That in Pursuance of the said request of the said Journey men
your Peitioners and the said Other Manufacturers on the behalf of
themselves and the rest of the Masters in the said Trade in the
Course of the last Year had divers Meetings with Thomas Baker< no role > This name instance is in set 2737.
James Saunders< no role >
William Durant< no role > This name instance is in set 2734.
Jacob Buckey< no role >
John Murphy< no role >
and Thomas Haddon< no role > This name instance is in set 2735.
Six several Journeymen Nominated
and Appointed by the rest of the Journeymen for that purposes
in Order to Settle and Agree upon the Paries which ought to be paid
for making or Manufacturing the differrent Kinds of Work made
up or Manufactured in the said Trade And in Consequence there of
the several Prices of Work so far as they could be Settled and
Ascertained were mutually Agreed to by your Petitioners on the
behalf of themselves and the nest of the master and by the said