thro' almost to the flooring, Your Committee for their
better Informations as to the Condition of the Bridge , and the
Expence and Method of [..] Repairing the Same have
taken to their Assistance Mr. James King< no role > of Saint Martin's
Lane Carpenter< no role > , and Directed him to make two Estimates,
the One of the Expence of putting the Bridge in Repair
Sufficient to Stand Ten years, The other of the Expence of
building an Intire New Bridge makeing an Allowance
for Old Materialls, both which Estimates have been
Accordingly made and are hereunto Annexed, Upon the
whole your Committee are of opinion that it will be
better and Cheaper for the County to Rebuild the Bridge
than to Repair it, And are further of Opinion that whether
the Bridge is Rebuilt or Repaired it is highly proper to turn
a Brick Arch over the Abuttment at the End next Brentford ,
All which we Submit to the Determination of this Honble.
Court, Dated the 19th. day of July 1739

Jos: Ayloffe< no role >
Fran: Child< no role >
Thos Reynell< no role >
Edw Hill< no role >
C Bere
Jno Stevens< no role >
Ja: Clitherow< no role >

To Sr. Joseph Ayloff Holding,< no role > Sr. Thomas Reynell< no role >
Barronetts , Sr . Francis Child< no role > Knight & others his
Majesty's Justices of ye Peace for ye County of Middlesex .

Estimates of Mr. Jn:
King Carpenter< no role > }

In Obedience to your Worships Command I have Carefully
Examined ye State of Brentford Bridge , and find it much
out of Repair yet Capable of being repaired for 9 or 10 years,

The Length of the Bridge is about 93 Feet at a Mean, and
the Width of the River, between ye two Abutments but 77 at a
mean, So that about 16 Feet of the Bridge in Length runs
upon the Land Eastward, under which there is a Cellar, the
property of Mr. Clitherow, which I think may better be
turn'd over with a Strong Arch of Brickwork, by which means
as the Bridge will be Shortned, the future Expence will be
So too, So far as relates to ye Toysts & planking, but the