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<p n="5">Peace holden for the said City at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15075_geo2">Guildhall</rs>
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within the same by Adjournment on<lb></lb>
Wednesday the second day of Novr. last Upon a Petition preferred to the said Court by<lb></lb>
some of the Master Taylors agt. the Journeymen; The Court came to a resolution to<lb></lb>
make no alteration in the abovementd. Order of the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15075_date4">eleventh day of May One thousand<lb></lb>
seven hundred and fifty six</rs>
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, But without prejudice nevertheless to any future<lb></lb>
Application to the said Court by the Journeymen Taylors for an increase of<lb></lb>
their Wages.</p>
<p n="6">That your Petitioners with the deepest Sense of Gratitude acknowledge the<lb></lb>
condescension and indulgence which they have always experienced from this Honble<lb></lb>
Court, and particularly in the said Order of the 2d. of Novr. last; And in pursuance of<lb></lb>
the Liberty thereby to them given, they with all humility beg leave to inform your<lb></lb>
Lordship and the rest of the Justices here assembled, That by reason of the advanced<lb></lb>
price of all the necessaries of life since the making of the said Order of the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15075_date5">Eleven<lb></lb>
day of May One thousand seven hundred & fifty six</rs>
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, they are unable to maintain<lb></lb>
themselves and their families upon the Wages by such Order stipulated; And likewise<lb></lb>
that by reason of the hours of working therein appointed their Constitutions are so<lb></lb>
hurt by their sedentary course of life, and their sight so greatly impaired (especially)<lb></lb>
when upon black work or Gold & silver holes which in the Winter Season they<lb></lb>
are frequently employed on for Six hours by Candle light) that a Journeyman Taylors<lb></lb>
of forty five years of age is so despised & rejected by the Masters that few (if any) of<lb></lb>
them will employ him on that account.</p>
<p n="7">Your Petitioners further beg leave humbly to inform this Honble Court,<lb></lb>
That by the said Act of Parlt. of the 7th. of King George the first, and all the Orders of<lb></lb>
Sessions heretofore made in pursuance thereof, the Wages allowed during the winter<lb></lb>
Season are much less than those allowed during the Summer Season;although it<lb></lb>
is notoriously known, that in the Winter your Petitioners are at much greater<lb></lb>
expence in the support of themselves and their families, and have much less work<lb></lb>
whereby to defray that expence.</p>
<p n="8">That the Wages now stipulated by the said several Orders abovementioned<lb></lb>
to be paid to your Petitioners amount in the whole to the yearly Sum of Thirty<lb></lb>
seven pounds one shillings upon the supposition that they are constantly<lb></lb>
employed all the year; Whereas your Petitioners humbly beg leave to inform<lb></lb>
this Honble Court, that by the constant course of Trade they are not employed<lb></lb>
above thirty six weeks in the year, by which means the annual amount of<lb></lb>
their Wages as now stipulated is reduced to the Sum of Twenty six pounds one<lb></lb>
shilling which is not more than Ten shillings a week; a Sum greatly insufficient<lb></lb>
to maintain a Man and his Wife with two or three children, much less to<lb></lb>
defray the incidental expences of Sickness Etc.</p>
<p n="9">That many of the Master Taylors within this City and the Liberties<lb></lb>
thereof, out of a humane and compassionate sense of the hardships which<lb></lb>
your Petitioners labour under by the means aforesaid, are ready and willings<lb></lb>
to increase the Wages by the said several Orders appointed, and to permit<lb></lb>
your Petitioners to leave off working at Seven of the Clock in the Evening (an<lb></lb>
indulgence which your Petitioners shall ever gratefully acknowledge) But me<lb></lb>
Masters</p>
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