January 1785
By Adjournment same day
A Letter from Mr Hurst the person whose Plan of a House
of Correction obtained the first Premium being laid before the
Court of which the following is a Copy
"Manwaring Esqr.
"Sir
"Having obtained the first premium for a
"Design for a House of Correction
for the County of Middlesex I
"shall esteem it a particular favour if you will present my most
"Grateful acknowledgments to the Gentlemen in the Commission
"who have Honoured me with so Flattering a decision As upon
"Enquiry I understand that the Gentlemen have appointed Jacob
Leroux< no role >
Esquire
as their Architect
for carrying their Designs
"into Execution I feel myself restrained from any application
"for that office which the decision in my favour might otherwise
"have Warranted. Having been much confined for time in forming
"my design. I was necessitated to deliver the Original Sketches, and
"precluded the possibility of retaining any Copy either of the Plans
"or Description should it therefore be Consonant with the indulgent
"of the Magistrates to grant me permission to obtain a Copy of them.
"I shall feel myself under an additional obligation to that already
"conferred on
"Sir
Your most Obedt & Humble Servt.
"A Hurst"
"Jany 13th. 1785"
It is Ordered that Mr Hurst be permitted to take
a Copy of the said Plan and Description.
By Adjournment same day
Application being made unto this Court by Mrs. Gibbs (late
Mrs Harwood the Widow of Thomas Harwood< no role >
late Tenant of the Tap at
the House of Correction at Clerkenwell
) praying an allowance for certain
Fixtures at the said Tap house which had been purchased by the said Thos.
Harwood and was heretofore valued at £30 and the orders of Court in September
Session 17 being called for and read whereby it appears that after the
decease of the said Thomas Harwood< no role >
the said Mrs. Gibbs (then Mrs Harwood)
had in consequece of the said Tap being let to her at £15. a year agreed
to withdraw her claim to the said fixtures. Resolved that Mrs Gibbs
hath no right or claim to the said fixtures.