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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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In Middlesex and London, 15,000 journeymen tailors and staymakers formed an unlawful combination to raise wages beyond parliamentary limits. The Privy Council instructed the Duke of Newcastle and the Lord Mayor to enforce the regulating act and revoke licenses of involved publicans.
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A Letter of the same Import was sent to the Lord Mayor of London, &c.
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Middlesex, London
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Of Late
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A very extraordinary Combination having of late been enter'd into, by great Numbers of Journeymen Taylors and Staymakers (to the Number of 15,000) to advance their Wages above what is limited by Act of Parliament, the Lords of His Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council wrote a Letter to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Custos Rotulorum of the County of Middlesex, requiring his Grace to recommend, in the strongest Manner, to the Justices of the said County, to carry into immediate Execution the late Act of Parliament for regulating the Journeymen Taylors within the Weekly Bills of Mortality and also to revoke the Licences granted to such Publicans as have been concern'd in encouraging their unlawful Combinations and Confederacies. A Letter of the same Import was sent to the Lord Mayor of London, &c.