Continued Thursday April 27th. 1797

manner, and was fully adequate to support the lofty
buildings intended by the Hospital to be erected thereon

We beg leave also to remind the Governors that our
Houses were built conformable to the Plans which they saw
and approved, previous to the agreement favour Leases;
and with Timbers of the scantlings prescribed by themselves.

And though it has been often said, that some of them
were built without due regard to the vicinity of the Sewer, yet
in the instance supposed to be most in point (Mr Waddington)
the agreement for a Lease was actually witheld till the
Governors and several Surveyors had inspected and
approved the plan of the Building and had satisfied
themselves by a View, that the principal Wall, close to the
sewer and about Eighty feet in length, had been built by
Mr Mylne himself; and that the other precautions to
avoid injury to the Sewer and danger to the Building were
in all respects proper and amply Sufficient.

We have been led to offer remarks, not by any
serious apprehensions for our Houses, which, though
greatly injured by the late Public Works, we have no doubt
will last our Term; but because the Governors seem to think
it no part of their Tenants in taking care that a Job, so
interesting eventually to their own most valuable Estate, be
carefully and securely executed:although nothing can be
more clear, than that, if the present occasion be lost, the Injury to
their Property may be not only great, but irreperable.

You will be so good as to take an early opportunity of laying
these observations before the Governors, with assurances that
we are with due regard

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Signed

Their and your
Most Obedient hble Servants
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