Climbing boys and sweeping chimneys

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Climbing Boys in sweeping Chimnies, Petition of Corporation of Cutlers in Hallamshire, &c. against Employment of.

Upon reading the Petition of The Master, Wardens, Searchers and Assistants of the Corporation of Cutlers in Hallamshire, and of the Twelve Capital Burgesses and Commonalty of the Town and Parish of Sheffield, under their Common Seals, and of the Sheffield Free Tenants, and the Inhabitants at large of the Parish of Sheffield, whose Names are thereunto subscribed; praying their Lordships

"to take into their most serious Consideration the Practice of employing Children to climb up the insides of Chimnies, for the Purpose of cleaning them; and as speedily as possible to adopt such Measures as shall abolish the Practice in a Way the most prompt and effectual that the nature of the Case will admit of:"

It is Ordered, That the said Petition do lie on the Table.

From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 62: 26 April 1830', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 62: 1830, pp. 213-223.

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