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Peace holden for the said City at the
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Guildhall
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within the same by Adjournment on
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Wednesday the second day of Novr. last Upon a Petition preferred to the said Court by
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some of the Master Taylors agt. the Journeymen; The Court came to a resolution to
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make no alteration in the abovementd. Order of the
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eleventh day of May One thousand
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seven hundred and fifty six
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, But without prejudice nevertheless to any future
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Application to the said Court by the Journeymen Taylors for an increase of
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their Wages.
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That your Petitioners with the deepest Sense of Gratitude acknowledge the
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condescension and indulgence which they have always experienced from this Honble
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Court, and particularly in the said Order of the 2d. of Novr. last; And in pursuance of
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the Liberty thereby to them given, they with all humility beg leave to inform your
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Lordship and the rest of the Justices here assembled, That by reason of the advanced
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price of all the necessaries of life since the making of the said Order of the
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Eleven
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day of May One thousand seven hundred & fifty six
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, they are unable to maintain
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themselves and their families upon the Wages by such Order stipulated; And likewise
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that by reason of the hours of working therein appointed their Constitutions are so
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hurt by their sedentary course of life, and their sight so greatly impaired (especially)
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when upon black work or Gold & silver holes which in the Winter Season they
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are frequently employed on for Six hours by Candle light) that a Journeyman Taylors
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of forty five years of age is so despised & rejected by the Masters that few (if any) of
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them will employ him on that account.
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Your Petitioners further beg leave humbly to inform this Honble Court,
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That by the said Act of Parlt. of the 7th. of King George the first, and all the Orders of
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Sessions heretofore made in pursuance thereof, the Wages allowed during the winter
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Season are much less than those allowed during the Summer Season;although it
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is notoriously known, that in the Winter your Petitioners are at much greater
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expence in the support of themselves and their families, and have much less work
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whereby to defray that expence.
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That the Wages now stipulated by the said several Orders abovementioned
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to be paid to your Petitioners amount in the whole to the yearly Sum of Thirty
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seven pounds one shillings upon the supposition that they are constantly
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employed all the year; Whereas your Petitioners humbly beg leave to inform
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this Honble Court, that by the constant course of Trade they are not employed
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above thirty six weeks in the year, by which means the annual amount of
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their Wages as now stipulated is reduced to the Sum of Twenty six pounds one
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shilling which is not more than Ten shillings a week; a Sum greatly insufficient
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to maintain a Man and his Wife with two or three children, much less to
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defray the incidental expences of Sickness Etc.
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That many of the Master Taylors within this City and the Liberties
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thereof, out of a humane and compassionate sense of the hardships which
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your Petitioners labour under by the means aforesaid, are ready and willings
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to increase the Wages by the said several Orders appointed, and to permit
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your Petitioners to leave off working at Seven of the Clock in the Evening (an
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indulgence which your Petitioners shall ever gratefully acknowledge) But me
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Masters
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