Reasons humbly offered to the honorable, the members of the House of Commons, on the behalf of several persons, concerned in the makeing, carving, turning, and caneing of chairs, in and about the city of London : why the same trades ought not to be suppressed, as is designed by the upholsters, by a petition preferred to this honorable House, to that intent and purpose.

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