1766
September
Francis Buskin< no role >
's
Articles for work
at Brentford Bridge
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Articles of Agreement Indented had
made concluded and agreed upon the seventeenth Day
of September
in the Year of Our Lord one thousand
Seven hundred and sixty six and in the sixth Year
of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the third
by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and
Ireland King Defender of the Faith Etc. Between
Francis Buskin< no role >
of Saint Margaret's Hill
in the Parish
of Saint Saviour Southwark
in the County of Surry Carpenter
of the one part and
John Hawkins< no role >
Esquire
Sir Henry
Cheere Knight and Baronet
George Errington< no role >
Bartholomew
Hammond and
Benjamin Cowley< no role >
Esquires
Justices of the
Peace for the County of Middlesex
for and on behalf of
the Inhabitants of the said County of the other part
Whereas at the General Session of the Peace holden
for the County of Middlesex
on Monday the seventeenth Day of
February last past It was presented by the Grand Jury of the
said County (amongst other things) that a certain part of the
County Bridge commonly called Brentford Bridge
situate in the
Parish of Hanwell
in the said County then was and for some
time past had been in decay and want of Reparation for that
the Posts and Rails seperating the footway from the Carriage
Way were very Minors and that it is become necessary to put
up new ones and that the East end of the said Bridge was
very narrow and incommodiores which might be remedied by
laying the Foot Path on the South side of the said Bridge into
the Carriage way and making a new foot Bridge of Timber on
the outside of the South Wall
And whereas his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace in General Sessions assembled
have resolved and directed that the said public Bridge be
repaired and such additional Foot Bridge or way made as
recommended by the said Jury with all convenient Expedition
And Whereas the said Francis Buskin< no role >
hath proposed
agreed and undertaken to and with his Majesty's said Justices
assembled in the last General Session of the Peace holden for