Middlesex Sessions:
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24th February 1763 - 13th January 1774

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said Timber Building is laid Repairs and alterations may
still be Executed by running up a new and sufficient party Wall
as prescribed by the Act of Parliament against the said Boundary
or Garden Wall and Timber Building on the ground belonging to
the said Prison but in that Case the lights in the said Timber
Building will of course be blocked or stoptup and the new building
intended to be Erected there as part of the prison will be rendered
Nine Inches less at least

And Mr. Rogers is further of Opinion upon the
particular Inspection aforesaid That some Erections have been made
and Buildings laid against some other parts of the Boundary
Walls of the said Prison which from the Situation Abattals
Circumstances and Appearance of the said Erections may Justly
be deemed encroachments but especially a small Shed or Cottage
which has been built within a very few Years back against part
of the said South Boundary Wall near unto the great Gate of
the said Prison on the west Side thereof and against a part of
the Boundary Wall flanking the said great Gate to the West
which said Shed or Cottage is now occupied and used as a
Chandlers Shop and the right to it now claimed by a Mrs. Sharp
of Fleet Street and underheld of her by the present occupier
That in Carrying into Execution the plan of Repairs and
Alterations determined to be made in and to the said Prison the
Walls against which the said Erections are built must be pulled
down and the said Erections laid open and Endangered Wherefore
Mr. Rogers humbly submitted the premises to the Consideration
of the Committee and prayed their orders therein for his further
proceeding

The Committee took a view of the abovementioned
Wall and they further report that the same of ancient time been a
Boundary Wall belonging to the said Prison and that the
Timber Building erected by Mr. Nightingale is an encroachment
on the right of the County of Middlesex in the same which resolution




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