May 1796.

That your Petitioner having Contracted to perform all the
Slating on the New Prison at Cold Bath fields with
best Westmoreland Slates the Eaves to be three feet long
Your Petitioner begs leave to observe about the time that
half the Slating was finished the Westmoreland Slates
rose from Three pounds to Three and a half Guineas
Per Son which Obliged your Petitioner to inform Mr.
Rogers Surveyor that a large of Slates had arrived
in the River but they had advanced the price as above
on which Account it would hurt him very much to
proceed with his Contract without an addition to the
former price when Mr Rogers desired him to go on
with his Contract and Petition the Magistrates on
his Case as he had no doubt but they would make
an Allowance - the first Board that sat Your Petitioner
presented a Petition praying your Worships for an
Allowance of five shillings Per Square when Mr..
Holland desired he might go on with his Work and
they would consider of it - when his Contract was finished
he presented a Petition praying for the addition as
above but his Petition was rejected on the ground that
the Slates ought to have been put in before the rise
He humbly begs leave to inform your Worships that it
was not him but a Slater of the name of Sanbach
who originally engaged for the Contract but Mr.. Rogers
on enquiry not finding Mr.. Sandbach or getting a
Characted of him till after your Petitioners Contract was
entered into sent to him to know if he was willing to
Contract for the above Work which he did at One
shilling Per Square under the Price that Sandbach was
to have and at the time your Petitioner engaged in the