Articles of Agreement Indented had
made concluded and agreed upon the twenty seventh
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 > or 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< no role >
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 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 Ruinous that it was become necessary
to put up New ones and that the East End of the said Bridge
was very Narrow and Incomedious 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 Majestys 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