By Adjornmt. on Thursday the 10th. day of July 1740

Order made upon the
petition of Wm. Body praying
to have a lease granted of
a house with the appurts
called the Mulberry Garden
at Clerkenwell and for
appointing a Committee
thereupon}

Whereas William Body< no role > hath exhibited his humble petition
unto this Court Settingforth That the Petr. being Tennant of the
messuage or tenement with the appurtenances Scituate in the
parish of St. James Clerkenwell in this County comonly called
the Mulberry Garden formerly let by lease by the Justices of the
peace of the Said County to James Baynham< no role > late Citizen &
Merchant Taylor of London for the term of twenty one years
(which Said term of will expire at Lady day one thousand Seven
hundred and forty two) at the rent of twenty pounds P annum,
And that the Said house & premisses being in a very bad and
ruinous condition, the main walls & principal timbers
thereof being much decayed & rotten, and the pond being So
very foul that it is now become a Nusance, and if cleaned would
cost at least the Sum of twelve pounds, And that the Petr.
having within these two years last past laid out & expended in
the repaireing & amending the Said house and in opening the
old and making a new drain to carry off the water from the
Said pond the Sum of fifty pounds and upwards, and the Said
house of and premisses being Still in So bad & ruinous a
condition that unless immediate care be taken Sufficiently to
repaire & amend the Same the Same will become uninhabitable,
And that the Petr. being ready & willing after Such repaires
made to take a new lease of the Said premisses to comence from
the end & expiration of the Said term granted to the Said
James Baynham< no role > as aforesaid at & under the yearly rent of
twenty pounds with usual covenants, It was therefore humbly
prayed by the Petr. (In regard of the expence he hath been
already at) that the Said Messuage & premisses may be put into
good & Sufficient repaire, and Such new lease granted to the
Petr. as aforesaid, whereupon It is Ordered by this Court that it be
And It is hereby recomended & referred unto the Committee of his
Maties Justices of the peace for this County appointed to direct the
repairing of the House of Correction at Clerkenwell (to wit)
Thomas Lane< no role > Nicholas Jeffreys< no role > Thomas Pindar< no role > Simon Michell< no role >
Robert Tothill< no role > Thomas Dummer< no role > Theodore Smith< no role > John Lawton< no role >
Nathaniel Blackerby< no role > Richard Farwell< no role > Jacob Harvey< no role > Barwell
Smith Anthony Chamberlain< no role > William Browning< no role > Robert Hinde< no role >
John Elliott< no role > This name instance is in set 3963. William Hayton< no role > Honorat Smith< no role > & Anthony Wroth< no role >
Esquires or any three of them to meet together at the Red Lyon
Coffee house in Red Lyon Street Clerkenwell and to proceed to
take a view of the Said Messuage with the appurtenances
called the Mulberry Garden in the Said parish of St. James
Clerkenwell , and to See in what condition the Same is as to
the want to repaires, And to examine into the truth of the
allegations contained in the Said Petition, and to inquire