MIDDLESEX
.
At the General quarter Session of the Peace of our
Lord the King, holden in and for the County of Middlesex
, at
the Session-House for the Said County, (by adjournment)
on Tuesday the Fourteenth Day of April in
the Thirty fifth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Third, King of Great Britain, Etc.
Before
Esquires
, and others their Fellows, Justices of our Said Lord the
King, assigned to keep the Peace in the County aforesaid; and
also to hear and actermine divers Felonies, Trespasses, and other
Misdemeanour's committed in the Same Conuty
To Masters and Journeymen Weavers
in that branch of the Silk
Manufacture called orrice Weaving.
A Petition having Presented to this Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for the
County of Middlesex
in Session Assembled stating that Several Alterations
had taken place in the manufacturing of several Articles in the [..] Branch
of Orrice weaving both in respect of the Fineness of the Shot as well as
width of the several Articles whereby the labour of the Manufacture
is much increased and no Provision or adequate Compensation made
them for such additional Labourand praying the Court is settle
regulate and order the Wages and prices of the Journeymen working
within the said County in the said Branch. It is Ordered that
the said Petition be taken into Consideration in Saturday next the
Eighteenth day of April Instant at the hour of Ten in the Forenoons
and that in the mean time an Advertizement be inserted in three
of the Public Newspapers to the intent that all Masters and
Journeymen
in that branch of the Silk Manufacture called
Orrice Weaving have notice thereof: