9th December 1773

"At which Places Posts or Stones shall be set up by the directions of the
"said Justices of the Peace which shall be esteemed to be the bounds and
"extent of the said Haymarket " that they could not upon the Strick test
enquiry discover where the old Toll Post stood whence the Place were the
Market begun was uncertain. But by the description of the Toll Post in
the Act, and which the Committee were led to believe stood over against
a house formerly Coventry House lately occupied by Lord Gorin
which was three Doors from Coventry Cowet; and in regard that no
Cart usually stood so high the Committee were of opinion That a Toll
Post ought to be set down on the East side of the said Haymarket
over against the said House late Lord Gorins with an Inscription
thereon "The Market begins here" and that the extent might be
ascertained for the future that another be set up North of the House
late the Phenix Inn at the lower end of the Haymarket with an Inscrip-
-tion "The Market ends here for want of which 980 Superficial
yards of Square Pavement had been repaired out of the Toll more than
in the opinion of the Committee ought to have been, which was one
great cause of the then debt. That the Increase of the buildings in
the out parts of the Town thro' which the Farmers passed with their
Hay and Straw afforded them an opportunity of supplying those
Places without coming to Market whereby the Toll had decreased it
having produc'd only the last four Years £100 per Annum: That the
allowance of £10 P Annum to an Agent beside £20 P Annum to a
Collector was more than could be afforded it being impracticable to keep
so large an extent of Pavement (4590 Superficial Yards) in repair
for £70 a year and therefore recommending the removal of the Toll
Posts as above proposed. That none of the Inhabitants within the
Limits of what has been called the Haymarket had in the least
contributed towards the repair of the Pavement as they ought to
have done (the Toll being granted only in case of the Inhabitants) as
appears by 1S of 8th & 9th of W: and as the consideration of the best method
of effectually repairing the same was referred it was thought impracticable
to cause the same to be repaired or kept so, unless by a Contracts for
21 Years at the least with some substantial Paviour who is was imagin'd