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27th October 1757 - 9th December 1762

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By adjournment on Thursday the twelfth day of January 1758 .

£4..12s..9d. for repairs
at Hicks Hall .

Mr. John White< no role > House Keeper of Hicks Hall having produced two Bills
before this Court for moneys by him paid for Repairs and other necessary Matters
at Hicks Hall aforesaid amounting together to the Sum of four pounds twelve
shillings and nine pence half penny and praying that he may be repaid the same
This Court upon inspecting and examining the said Bills doth Order that Mr.
John Higgs< no role > Treasurer of this County do repay the said Sum of four pounds
twelve shillings and nine pence half penny out of the County Rents unto the said
Mr. White whose Receipt together with this Order shall be a sufficient
discharge to the said Treasurer for such payment.

By adjournment on Thursday the twelfth day of January 1758

Order for Mr. Higgs Trearer
to pay 9s. to Mr. Wilkins
for keeping Brentford Bridge
repair.

It is Ordered by this Court that Mr. John Higgs< no role > Treasurer of this County
do pay unto Mr. John Wilkins< no role > Paviour this Sum of nine pounds due to him by
Contract for keeping the Pavement of a Publick Bridge called Brentford Bridge in
this County in good and sufficient Repair for one year ending at Michaelmas One
thousand seven hundred and fifty seven And that the Receipt of the said John
Wilkins together with this Order shall be a sufficient Discharge to the said
Treasurer for such payment But lot Notice be given of this Order to King
Gould Esqr. one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace of this County at the
Judge Advocates Office at White Hall before the actual payment of the
said money.

By adjournment on Thursday the twelfth day of January 1758

Chertsea Bridge

A Report being made unto this Court by Thomas Wood< no role > Vansittart Hudson< no role >
George Errington< no role > Edmund Byron< no role > Boulton Mainwaring< no role > and Bartholomew
Hammond
< no role > Esqrs . six of his Majestys Justices of the Peace appointed by an Order of
General Sessions of the Peace for this County of the eighth day of December last
to view the State and Condition of Chertsea Bridge That upon Friday the twenty
third day of December last they did meet together and took a carefull and
accurate View of that part of the said Bridge which lies in this County and upon
such View did find that several of the Piles thereof were very defective and in bad
Condition and several of the Braces and some of the Planking which to the said
Piles had been affixed had been torn away by the violence of Waters and the
Barges coming through the same had been lost and others much damaged all
which the said Committee conceived and represented necessary to be repaired
with all convenient Speed And that by the long use and wear of Carriages
the Ballast upon the said Bridge was so wasted and worn away that the
Wheels of the Carriages actually grated upon the Planking of the same upon
which Account and the immacinent Danger which might endue from the same
the said Committee had given Direction for a sufficient Quantity of Ballast to
be laid upon the same to prevent any further damage This Court upon reading
the said Report doth adjourn the Consideration thereof untill the County day of




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