Middlesex

The Presentment of the Grand Jury now sworn to Inquire for our Lord the
King and the Body of the said County of Middlesex to the Justices in their General
Quarter Session of the Peace now holden at Westminster in and for the said County
of Middlesex on Monday the third day of April 1758 .

It appearing upon Oath before us that part of a certain Bridge called Chertsea
Bridge which is in the County of Middlesex is very defective and in bad Condition
and that several of the Braces and some of the Planking which to the Piles had
been affixed had been torn away by the Violence of the Waters and that divers
Barges coming thro' the same have been lost and others much damaged and that
there wants Ballast to be laid on the said Bridge
We do present that the said Bridge is a County Bridge and that the same
is very much out of the repair and wants of Reparation and ought forthwith
to be repaired at the Charge and Expence of the Inhabitants of the said County
of Middlesex

George Errington< no role > Esqr.
Sworn in Court

Thomas Leech< no role > Jno. Bartholomew< no role >
Thomas Judd< no role > Jos. Simpson< no role >
Henry Crane< no role > Paul Johnson< no role >
Frans. Wright< no role > John Allen< no role >
John Abraham< no role > Larkin How< no role >
Jonathan Leventhorp< no role > Richd. Fisher< no role >
Peter Mackway< no role > James Fisher< no role >
James Main< no role > John Germain< no role >
William Varley< no role > Willm. Penn< no role >
William Murrell< no role > John Lewitt< no role >
John Johnson< no role >

By adjournment on Thursday the sixth day of April 1758

Order for a Meeting of
the Committee concerning
Chertsea Bridge Etc

Upon reading the Report of Thomas Wood< no role > Vansittart Hudson< no role > George Errington< no role >
Edward Byron< no role > Boulton Mainwaring< no role > and Bartholomew Hammond< no role > Esqrs . being of
the Committee of the Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this County (to whom it was
referred by an Order of Sessions of the eighth day of December last to view the
State and Condition of the Middx part of Chertsea Bridge ) It appeareth to the
Court by the said Report That on the twenty third day of December last they did
meet together and took a carefull and accurate View of that past of the said
Bridge which lies in the said 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 the Waters and the Barges coming through the
same had been last 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 imminent danger which line might ensue from the same the said Committee had given Directions for a