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AD 1772
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. Recorder and
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Others This Majestys Justices now Assembled at the
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in and for the said City for the Purpose of
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Setling and Regulating the Wages of
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Employ'd in the Narrow Branch's of the Silk Manufactory
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The Humble Pettition of the
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Journeymen Employ'd in the above
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Branches the Engine Branch
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Sheweth,
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That your Lordships poor Pettitioners
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Did serve a regular Apprenticeship to the said Branches by which
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formily they did and had it in their power to maintain themselves
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and family's in a decent Manner, But unfortunately for them
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the Master has prevented that, by reducing from time to time for
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some Years Back the prices of our Labour which has been very
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Predjudicial to us as Likewise to the Trade in General
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And this Honble Court well Know
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that the King and Parliament has taken our case into their wise
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and Tender Consideration by passing an Act Impowering your
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Lordship and this Honable Court to Regulate and settle the same
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and Takeing Notice of an Advertisement in the Daily Paper
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appointing this day for that purpose we have Agreeable thereto now
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assembled in order to be heard concerning the said Prices which we
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have hare unto annixd for Realy my Lord our Case has been for
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some Years very Pettions and we Humbly hope the Court will be
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of the same Oppinion for what is now before you cannot Injure the
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Masters and will Contmt your poor Pettitioners
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Your Lordships poor Pettioners most
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Humbly Prays that our Case may be Maturily and Tenderly considered by
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this Honble Court and to Redress those Greviances ourselves and
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family's have Labourd under for Many years by the Appression of
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the Masters for this Honble City allways was Ready to Redress
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the Greviances of the poor Labouring man as for as Justice
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would direct without paying any regard to any Body of persons
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and we Humbly hope our Greviance will be redriss'd accordingly
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And Your Lordships Pettitioners as well as their Distress'd family
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will
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