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A78262 The case of the Master-Taylors residing within the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Weekly Bills of Mortality. Humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, in relation to the great abuses committed by their journeymen. 1700 (1700) Wing C1115; ESTC R171013 1,943 2

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THE CASE OF THE Master-TAYLORS residing within the Cities of London and Westminster and the Weekly Bills of Mortality HUMBLY OFFER'D To the Consideration of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled in relation to the Great Abuses committed by their Journeymen THAT towards the latter of End of last Summer when the Master Taylors were in the greatest Hurry of Business occasioned by a more than odinary Run of Trade their Journeymen not content with the same Wages and Hours of Working as usual which their Masters when in Their Station were well satisfied with taking Advantage thereof and likewise of the Universal Extravagance at that Time prevailing did after several unlawful Assemblies enter into a Solemn Combination having their Names entered into a Book for that Purpose to compel the Masters to Raise their Wages and Lessen the Hours of Working notwithstanding the Laws in Force for Regulating Labourers and Journeymen Viz. The 5th of Q. Eliz. Cap. 4. sect 21. settled 15 Hours in a Day for Working as hath been ever since continued and at much lower Wages than they have now allowing for the Difference of the Times THIS Combination of the Journeymen-Taylors was come to such a Height that Complaint being made to His Majesty's Justices of the Peace against those Offenders as Loisterers several of them were bound over to the Sessions and others to appear in His Majesty's Coart of King's Bench and their Subscription-Books were also seized by virtue of the Secretary of State 's Warrant Yet they still continue Obstinate and persist in putting the abovesaid Difficulties upon their Masters to the great Prejudice of Trade in general They also collect great Sums of Money Weekly to support their unlawful Combinations and Confederacies to the great Prejudice of the Families of such of them as are Married which Proceedings are of very ill Examples to Journeymen of all other Trades as is sufficiently seen in the Journeymen Curriers Smiths Farriers Sailmakers Coachmakers and divers other Arts and Mysteries who have actually entred into Confederacies of the like Nature and the Journeymen Carpenters Bricklayers and Joyners have taken some Steps for that purpose and only wait to see the Event of a Law for Regulating the Journeymen-Taylors THE Master-Taylors after several Difficulties occasioned by the Proceedings of their Journeymen aforesaid applied to Parliament and the Honourable House of Commons were pleased to Pass the Bill now depending before Your Lordships in order to prevent the like for the future and therein did grant to the Journeymen what they principally insisted on Viz. Shortning the Hours of Work from 6 o'Clock in the Morning 'till 8 of the Clock at Night instead of Nine which was the usual Custom Time out of Mind THE Master-Taylors came into the lessening the Hours of Work in order to indulge their Men and make them easy if possible which Hour of a Day taken off from their Work will occasion the Loss to their Masters according to the Computation following   l. s. d. One Hour's Work per Diem lost to the Master per Annum for each Journeyman the Master loses 2 12 00 If a Master keeps Ten Men at Work he loses Annually 26 00 00 If he keeps Twenty Men at Work he loses Annually 52 00 00 If he keeps Thirty Men at Work he loses Annually 78 00 00 FROM the foregoing Calculations it appears what great Loss the Masters will sustain and that the Wages settled by the Bill now depending ar ethe utmost that the best Journey-Men can possibly Earn and if higher Wages were to be allowed to the said Journeymen the Masters must either raise the Prices of making Cloaths considerably or else be inevitably ruined BY the Bill now depending before your Lordships when at the Honourable House of Commons the Journeymen were very desirous to have a Clause inserted to oblige their Masters to pay them their Wages by a summary Way before Justices of the Peace which the said Masters also readily complied with and for want of Payment the said Justices of the Peace are impowered to commit the said Masters to Gaol without Bail or Mainprize which is putting the Masters under the same Restrictions of the Justices as their Journey-Men are and is what they then seemed to be contented with at the House of Commons THAT the Journeymen do still combine to raise their Wages to Half a Crown and Three Shillings per Diem and out of the said extravagant Wages they are spirited on by designing Persons to collect Large Sums for the Support of such Journeymen in Idleness as are not to comply with Reasonable Wages and also expend Large Sums of Money in Law and Solliciting to oppose the Passing of the Bill now depending before your Lordships which if the same should pass into a La would render both the Masters and their Men easy in the said Trade HE Mastes humbly conceive That the leaving for the future if Occasion should require it the altering and settling of the Wages and Hours by the Justices at a General Quarter-Sessions from Time to Time as they shall see Cause is intirely consistent with the Liberty of the Subject and according to former Laws in the like Cases viz. That of the 5th of Q. Elizabeth and that of the 1st of K. James I. give the same Powers to Justices at the Quarter-Sessions The Journeymen have the same Privileges in Appealing as the Masters have by the present Bill WHEREFORE the Masters humbly Pray That the BILL as it no● stands may pass into a LAW The CASE of the Master-Taylors c. Humbly Offered To the Consideration of the House of Peers in relation to the Great Abuses committed by their Journey-men