noted absurdities, and other legal abuses, many of your petitioners, to their great comfort and support, were enabled to pick up a weekly subsistence out of the said Examiner.

"That your said poor petitioners did humbly offer your Honours to write in defence of the late change of ministry and parliament, much cheaper than they did for your predecessors; which your Honours were pleased to refuse.

Notwithstanding which offer, your petitioners are under daily apprehension that your Honours will forbid them to follow the said trade any longer, by which your petitioners, to the number of fourscore, with their wives and families, will inevitably starve, having been bound to no other calling.

"Your petitioners desire your Honours will tenderly consider the premises, and suffer your said petitioners to continue their trade, (those who set them at work being still willing to employ them, though at lower rates,) and your said petitioners will give security to make use of the same stuff, and dress in the same manner as they always did, and no other. And your petitioners," &c.

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