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<p n="1533">To the Chairman and the rest of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50909_occ257">Justices of the peace</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
and for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50909_geo648">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="1534">The humble Petition of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50909_occ258">Journeyman</rs>
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labouring in that branch of<lb></lb>
the silk Manufacture called orrice weaving in behalf of themselves<lb></lb>
and Families</p>
<p n="1535"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That a former Occasion, the Prices of your Petitioners works, were settled between them and their respective<lb></lb>
Masters as inacted by an Act of Parliament made in the tenth Year of his present Majesty's Reign and it is further enacted<lb></lb>
by the aforesaid Act that if any new Fashion shall arise or any Alteration shall be neccessary to be made in their Works they<obscured></obscured>
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from time to time, apply by Petition to the Magistrates of the Different Jurisdictions therein mentioned, to settle regulate<lb></lb>
and declare the Wages and Prices of Work EtcYour Petitioner's crave leave to inform your Worship<lb></lb>
that since the year 1774 several Alterations have taken place in the manufacturing of several Articles in the branch of<lb></lb>
Orrice weaving both in respect of the fineness of the shot as well as the Wedth of the of the several Articles whereby the Labour of the<lb></lb>
Manufacturer, is much increased, and no Provision or adiquate compensation made them for such additional Labour by the last<lb></lb>
Order of this Honorable Court, which was made in the said Year 1774 by which they fined themselves much aggrieved<lb></lb>
Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray that your Worships will take their case into your serious Consideration<lb></lb>
and give them such relief and to Your Worships shall seem just and right and your Petitioners as in Duty bound<lb></lb>
shall ever pray Etc Etc</p>
<p n="1536">Signed in behalf of the tade<lb></lb>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50909_n1536-2">Paul Astell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50909_n1536-3">George Watson</rs>
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<p n="1537"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50909_n1537-1">John Bull</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50909_n1537-3">Benjn Humphrgson</rs>
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