Continued Thursday 21st. April 1791

"Chapel Wardens of the Hospital and Precinct towards the charges of the
"Pavements Scavenger Watch and Poor of the said Precinct"-The Covenant
in some of (if not in all) the Leases extends to Lighting the Lamps and paying
a fine for not serving the Office of Chapel Warden.All these Leases have
been granted since the 7th. Geo: 3d. under which the present Occupiers claim the
ExemptionYour Memorialists are warranted in concluding that in requiring
this Covenant the Governors had in contemplation the Equity and reasonableness
of the thing as well as the equal rights of their other Tenants in Bridewell
Precinct some of whom Assented to the same Covenent on th express assurance
and the rest under the unplied Idea that the clause was universal and the
contribution was to be in a fair proportion with all the other Inhabitants of the
Precinctof whom those on the new Embankment have long been a valuable part
and have in fact contributed on account of the goodness of their Houses) neatly
one sixth part of the whole expence that this was intended by the governors
in the original Contract with the Lessees is fully evineed by the circumstance
of the Ground Rent to which their Houses are subject being precisely the same
as those immediately adjoining The Present Tenants cannot therefore contend
for the exemption on the fooling of paying a consideration for it in the Rent
or indeed of any other Hardship on the contrary they are even now far better
off than their Neighbours in being clearly excused from all Government.
Taxes in respect of their Ground and HousesSecondly your Memoralists
further observe that when it became necessary to pave the interior parts of Bridewell
Precinct the Money wanted for that purpose was bonowed by an Annuity of £48. on
a life not yet expired and further debts to the amount of £130 have been since
incurred in paving Et. all with the unanimous consent of the Inhabitants of
the Precinct as well the Lessees on the new Embankment as the others-
And that on many other occasions these Gentlemen have assisted at Vestrys-
paid the Fire for not serving as Chapel Warden and in short have been uniformly
Rated to and have actually paid the Rates in the same manner as the other-
Inhabitants in conformity to the Covenants in their Leases.These the Lessees
have not only taken this Ground on the express terms of Paying their proportion
of those expences in common with your Memorialists but have also ratified
that Covenant by many subsequent Acts of concurrence and thereby have
waived the exemption and subjected themselves to the payment of those Rates
just as a Tenant does by a Covenant to pay the Land Tax which by Act of
Parliament is imposed on the LandlordFor reasons like these your
Memorialists had concluded that the Occupiers of Houses on the new Embankment
in Bridewell Precinct could not with any propriety contend for the Exemptions already
mentioned but it having been suggested that they were encouraged in their doubts by a
professional Man (the Clerk to this Hospital) and having themselves no wish to abridge the
Just rights of their Neighbours your Memorialists became desirous to know how far
the foregoing observations were legally founded and judged it proper to lay a Case