Articles of Agreement Indented had
made concluded and Agreed upon the twenty fifth Day of
February one thousand seven hundred and sixty seven and
in the seventh year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the third by the Grace of God over Great Britain France and
Ireland King Defender of the Faith Etc. Between Richard Jupp< no role >
of Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex Carpenter of the
one part and John Hawkins< no role > Esquire Sir Henry Cheere< no role >
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 Quarter Session of the Peace
holden for the County of Middlesex on Monday in the Week
next after the Feast of Epiphany to wit the thirteenth day of
January in the Year one thousand seven hundred and sixty six
It was presented by the Grand Jury of the said County that a
certain part of the County Bridge over the River Thames commonly
called Chertsea Bridge situate in the Parish of Littleton in the
said County then was and for some time past had been in decay and
want of Reparation and Whereas his Majestys Justices of the
peace in General Sessions assembled have resolved and directed
that so much of the said Publick Bridge as lyes within the said
County of Middlesex be repaired with all convenient Expedition
and whereas the said Richard Jupp< 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 the said County by
adjournment on Thursday the nineteenth day of this instant
February for the Considerations herein after mentioned (and whereas
he the said Richard Jupp< no role > doth hereby declare himself to be fully
satisfyed and contented) to do and perform the said Repairs and
all Business relation thereunto at the Rates or Prices herein after
mentioned under the direction of Boulton Mainwaring< no role > Esquire
or such other Surveyor as the said Justices shall for that Purpose
appoint and it was thereupon Ordered that upon hin Entring into
Contract with four or five of his Majestys Justices of the peace