To the Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of the City of London and the
Rent of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Said City in General Quarter
Session of the Peace for the same City Assembled.
The humble Petition and Appeal of Edmund Lahey< no role >
of the Parish
of Saint Mary at Hall
London
Peruke Maker
.
Sheweth
That by a certain Paper Writing purporting to be a Certificate under the Hands
of
William Blackborn< no role >
Thomas Barnes< no role >
and
James Peacock< no role >
leaving Date the Twentieth day of
March last and director to this Honourable Court
therebysetting for the that
Robert Gleadoring< no role >
on behalf of himself
William Bennet< no role >
Walter Allen< no role >
John Powell< no role >
John Pooley< no role >
George Sleat< no role >
Thomas
Swabey< no role >
and
John Green< no role >
Trustees for the Society and Company of to Whe
[..] men Whiteman and
Lightmen rowing on the River Thames
did cause Notice in Waiting to be coured Your
Petitioner dated the 31st. Day of October 1776 Purporting That the Party Wall an Party Fence
Wall or some Part thereof between the House or Building thereto adjoining situate on Saints
Mary Hill< no role >
in the Parish of Saint Mary at Hill near Billingsgate
London inhabited or occupation
by Your Petitioner and their (the said Trustees) House or Building lately inhabited by
Ward and then unoccupied adjoining thereto to be so far our of repair as to
render it necessary to repair or pull down and rebuild the same or some Part thereof And
therefore That they (the said Trustees) did intend to have the said Party Wall and Party
Fence Wall surveyed pursuant to an Act of Parliament made in the fourteenth Year of the
Reign of Ring George the [..] ild And that they (the said Trustees) had appointed William Blackburn< no role >
of Saint Thomas Southwark
in the County of Surry
Surveyor
and Thomas Barnes< no role >
of Newcastle
street
in the Parish of saint Mary White Chappel
in the County of Middlesex
Surveyor
to
meet at the House of William the shield being the salictation Tavern in Lower Thames street
London near the Premises on Behalf of them (the said Trustees) on Wednesday the Fifth Day
of February (then) next 1777 at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon of the same day And they
(the said Trustees) did thereby require and call upon Your Petition to appoint two other
Surveyors or able Workmen on his Part to meet them at the time and Place aforesaid to
view the said Party Wall and Party Fence Wall and verity the stole and Condition thereof
and whether the same or any Part thereof ought to be pulled down and rebuilt And
that the said William Blackburn< no role >
and Thomas Barnes< no role >
together with Samuel Burchett< no role >
and Charles Parnell< no role >
(the two Surveyor's appointed by or on the Part of Your Petitioners)