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Catherine Cross-stitch, mantua maker and declares that, since the petticoats of the ladies were too wide for entering into any coach or chair, he has devised new forms of both of these modes of transporta round chair, in the form of a lantern and a coach into which a lady was let down from a balcony, and drawn up again by pulleys. Bickerstaff also acknowledges that he has received a second petition, signed by several thousands [of women], praying that I would not any longer defer giving judgment in the case of the petticoat, many of them having put off the making new clothes, till such time as they know what verdict will pass upon it (Aitken)