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St
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Anthony Wroth
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One of his Majesties
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Justices of the
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for the
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in pursuance of the Power given by Statute made
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in the Second Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord and Lady William and Mary
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Doe hereby Certifie upon my own view, that a certain Street ca
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Pear-tree Street lyeing
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and being in the
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in the
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is in a most ruinous condition scarcely
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passable for People on foot, and very difficult and dangerous, for horses or carts to go in the said
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Street:
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And that the said Street calld Pear-tree-street, was never Paved, at least there are little or no
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remains thereof for the length of forty yards or thereabout at the West End of the said Street
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leadeing to
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and of the Breadth of four yards which said forty yards in length and
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four Yards in breadth, I Judge fit to be paved
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Upon enquiry I find that
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Richard Randal
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is the Ground Landlord that
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John Cope
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John Gale
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, are Occupiers, by Lease of the Ground and Houses adjoining to the said Street which
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is in so very bad and
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Given and certifyed under my hand the
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fourth day of May 1736
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Ant. Wroth
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Time to repair pave till next Midsummer day
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