| Description | Petition of the Tailors of the City of Chester, stating that they are a Company of great number and have many to provide for - some of them 13 or more in a household, complaining that widows employ foreigners to work under them, some of whom work for themselves, so depriving the petitioners of trade. Note: 'The offenders are to have notice to surcease & after twise admonicion to be disfranchised and the Forreignours to bee proceeded against according to former orders.' |