Bridewell Royal Hospital:
Minutes of the Court of Governors
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26th December 1722 - 15th December 1737

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Image 481 of 49111th November 1737


Friday 11th. Novr. 1737 .

Warehouse and two Stables and the two Houses adjoining thereto and the
House next above the A corn in Bridewell Precinct part of the possessions
of the said Hospital for Sixty one years [..] 1737 [..] also [..] joint proposals [..] of the same premisesAnd the
Comittee having viewed the premisses the several persons above named were
called in, in the order undermentioned and proposed to pay a Pepper Corn Rent
for the first year and for the residue of the Term the Rent hereunto mentions
without any Deduction or Abatement for Parliamentary or other Taxes or
Charges whatsoever and to pay the Fines undermentioned and to lay out the
undermentioned Sumes in building upon the said premisses and to accept at
their Charge a Lease of the said premisses with such Clauses & Covenants
as are usually contained in Building Leases from the Governors to their
Tenants in Bridewell Precinct and also a Covenant not to lett or use
the premisses or any part thereof to or for a Slaughter house or Sugar house or
any Trade that may be noisome or offensive to the Neighbours and a Covenant
to pay to the Chappell Wardens of the said Precinct for the time being such
Sume and Sumes of money quarterly in proportion with other Occupyers of
Ground and Houses in the said Precinct towards the Charge of the Scavenger
Watch and Poor of the said Precinct as shall be rated or assessed from time to time
at the usual Meetings of the Chappell Wardens and Inhabitants of the said
Precinctand to execute a Counterpart of such Lease, and after they had
been all called in and made their proposals they being respectively called
in again in the same order to know what they would add to their first
proposals, they made the following answers Vizt.
Fine Rent P Ann to lay [..]
Building
Richard Haydon< no role > 120- - 45..- -800- -
2d. time, will make the Rent50..- -

John Hewlett< no role > and John Smither< no role > 63 - - 32 - - 500 - -
2d. time, will make the Fine68. 3. -

William Mosson< no role > and Robert Thompson< no role > 50.. - - 30 - -
2d. time will not add

Philip Forrester< no role > and John Palmer< no role > 40.. - - 30 - - 800 - -
2d. time, will make the Fine50.. - -

George Smith< no role > 120.. - - 20.. - - 600. - -
2d. time will make the Fine262.. 10 -

Thomas Wood< no role > 30.. - - 300 - -
2d. time, will not add

Whereupon this Committee having considered of the sad several proposals
are of opinion to accept the said proposals of the said Richard Hoydon< no role >
Upon which he gave a Guinea to the Poor's Cox All which is nevertheless
submitted to the Judgment of the CourtAnd it is Ordered this opinion
be reported to the next CourtThis Court doth confirm the said Report on the
said Mr Haydon's building a pair of Oaken Stairs at Piggs key not less than five foot wide wth
proper Taken Postsand doth order that a lease be made thereof accordingly.

HaydonRichd< no role > To have
a Lease of the Acorn in
Bri pror

Upon reading a Report from the Committee of Bridewell Hospital bearing date the
26th. of October last under the hands of the Worshipfull Robert Bishop< no role > Esqr .
Trear , Mr. William Poole< no role > , Mr. James Bartlett< no role > , Philip Searth< no role > Esqr . Mr Mark
Holman
< no role > and Mr. Deputy Ballard in the words and figures following Vizt.
Richard Hugdon< no role > of the City of London Timber Merchant (who agreed at the last
Comittee for a Lease If a Wharfe called Pigskey and the two Houses adjoining
on the Southside of the Acorn in Water direct (now at to Mr [..] Ambler [..] at £5
P ann Rent for twenty one years from Midsumer 1733) and the House thereon
the North side of the AcornNow acquainted this Comittee that he had agreed




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