Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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28th February 1734 - 14th April 1743

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are neccessary to be done for the greater Security & preservation
of the Said Bridge Doth Order that it be And It is hereby referred
unto the Said Sr. Joseph Ayloff< no role > Houlding Bart< no role > . James Clitherow< no role >
& Richard Bulstrode< no role > Esquires or any two of them to give directions
for the doing the Said matters & things above Specifyed in the
most effectual manner they Shall think proper for the
preservation of the Said Bridge And to make their Report
touching the Same unto thethis Court.

By Adjornmt. on Thursday 29th Day of April 1742

Order concerning Mr
Robert Kidwell< no role >

Whereas Mr Robert Kidwell< no role > hath exhibited his Memo-
-rial unto this Court setting forth that he & his Wife are
seized of a Copyhold messuage or dwelling house with a large
yard adjoining thereunto situate on the Westside of the
River Brent in this County on the SouthSide of & adjoining
to the great Western Road leading from Brentford to
Hounslow , And that the Foundation of the Piers of a new
Stone Bridge< no role > hath been lately laid in the said River, and
the Workmen are proceeding to finish and compleat the
same, as the Memorialist apprehends, under the Directions
and Management of this Court, And that the Workmen in
laying the Foundation of the Abuttment at the West End of
the said Bridge have enclosed and taken from the
Memorialist without his Permission a triangular piece of
ground part of his said yard containing sixteen feet in Length
from East to West, and six feet in breadth from North to
South at the West End thereof, And that by the Position of
the Piers of the said intended Bridge the Current of the Water is
in a great Measure pointed against the Memorialists said Yard,
which Yard by the Force and Violence of the Stream must
inevitably be washed away Unless secured by a strong Wall,
And that he is by the Enclosure of his said Ground dispossessed
of part of his Property in the said Yard and by the Position of
the said new Bridge may be deprived of the rest, Wherefore
the Memorialist hopes this Court will be pleased to take the
Premises into Consideration, and to make a reasonable
Satisfaction for so much of his Ground as is already enclosed,
and to give Directions for making a sufficient Wall to service
the Remainder of the said yard from being washed away by
the Flex of the River, Whereupon It is Ordered by this Court
that




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