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The Right Honble. The Lord Mayor & Worshipfull Aldermen
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at the General Quarter. Sessions at
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Monday 14. January 1771
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The Petition of the Inhabitants of Lower. Thames Street
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Humbly Sheweth
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Your Petitioners are Informed that an Application is made to your Worships by the fellowship
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of carmen for an Augmentation to the Number of Carts to Stand in Power
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more than What is
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allow'd by Law.
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Your Petitioners conceive that the Present regulations which were first established 1681. &
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afterwards confirmed in 1757 are wise & proper, if they are well & regularly Obey'd, but your petitioners in Particulars
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& the Publick in General have Labourd under Great difficulty & danger of their Lives Several Years past for want
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of the Laws & Regulations being Strickly aburned.
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Your Petitioners with reluctance have been Obliged to trouble the Lord Mayor & Aldermen
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with frequent Complaints against the Carmen & their drivers & We have lately been at some trouble & Expence
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in order to bring them to a due Observance of the Laws, Notwithstanding all which our Situation remains
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deplorable, We could mention many particulars, but the Whole proceeds from one Great & the first cause of all
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others, which is the Great Number of Empty Carts & Consequently Idle houses & Drivers that take their stands
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in
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Contrary to the regulations of this Court which we have Placed in their View that
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they may not pretend Ignorance
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Your Petitioners can with truth assure your Worships that westen find Difficulty & our
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servants to Get into or out of our houses the Publick in General are alarm'd & afraid of Going about their
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Business towards the markets, Custom house, Keys Etc at that many Hundreds Daily Travell with
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fear & more are afraid to come This & Every other Inconveniency arrises from so many Empty Carts which
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cause frequent Hopages for hours, hinders trade & Business to & from the Keys & your petitioners could give
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your Worships secular demonstration of their Distress if they thought it was not will known
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May it therefore place your Worships to take this matter into your serious Consideration not only to refuse
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an Augmentation of Carts but also to appoint a street keeper to perambulate Lower
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from whence every Other Evill Arises) & the publick in General & your Petitioners in Particular will
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wonder Great obligations & over Pray
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In behalf of our Selves & other
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