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<p n="157"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50707_geo34">Middlesex</rs>
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To the Worshipfull The Chairman and the<lb></lb>
rest of his Majesties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50707_occ30">Jutices of The Peace</rs>
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Acting in and<lb></lb>
for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50707_geo35">County of Middlesex</rs>
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At their General Quarter<lb></lb>
Session Assembled</p>
<p n="158">The Humble Petition of the several Master<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50707_occ31">Silk Weavers</rs>
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or Manufaeturers whose Names are<lb></lb>
hereto Subscribed on the Behalf of themselves<lb></lb>
and the rest of those Masters or Manufacturers<lb></lb>
in General</p>
<p n="159"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Shewath</note>
<lb></lb>
That your Petitioners are all of them Manufacturers resiant in<lb></lb>
and near the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50707_geo36">parish of Christ Church Spitalfield</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50707_geo37">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="160">That sometime since certain of the Journeymen Exercising<lb></lb>
the said Trade of a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50707_occ32">Weaver</rs>
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(who for the Immediate Support of themselves<lb></lb>
and Families and that they might not be entirely Destitute<lb></lb>
of Employ had for a Considerable time Past Worked as <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50707_occ33">Journeymen</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the said Trade at an under Price) made Application to your<lb></lb>
Petitioners and divers Others of the Manufacturers in the<lb></lb>
Neighbourhood of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50707_geo38">Spitalfields</rs>
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aforesaid desiring them to use their<lb></lb>
Endeavours to Settle and Ascertain the Prices which ought to be<lb></lb>
Paid for making the Differrent kind of Works Manufactured in<lb></lb>
Common by your Petitioners themselves and the rest of the Manufactures<lb></lb>
using the said trade</p>
<p n="161">That in Pursuance of the said request of the said Journey men<lb></lb>
your Peitioners and the said Other Manufacturers on the behalf of<lb></lb>
themselves and the rest of the Masters in the said Trade in the<lb></lb>
Course of the last Year had divers Meetings with <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50707_n161-1">Thomas Baker</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50707_n161-2">James Saunders</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50707_n161-3">William Durant</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50707_n161-4">Jacob Buckey</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50707_n161-5">John Murphy</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50707_n161-6">Thomas Haddon</rs>
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Six several Journeymen Nominated<lb></lb>
and Appointed by the rest of the Journeymen for that purposes<lb></lb>
in Order to Settle and Agree upon the Paries which ought to be paid<lb></lb>
for making or Manufacturing the differrent Kinds of Work made<lb></lb>
up or Manufactured in the said Trade And in Consequence there of<lb></lb>
the several Prices of Work so far as they could be Settled and<lb></lb>
Ascertained were mutually Agreed to by your Petitioners on the<lb></lb>
behalf of themselves and the nest of the master and by the said</p>
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