Middlesex Sessions:
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May 1764

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To the Worshipfull the Justices of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex Assembled at their General
Quarter Sessions of the Peace hold in and for the said
County at Hicks's Hall in Saint John's street

We whose Names are hereunto subscribed being the Workmen
appointed in pursuance of An Act of Parliament made & passed in the
Eleventh Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the first &
also of another Act passed in the fourth Year of his present Majesty
both the said Acts being respectively intituled (An Act for the better
Regulating of Buildings and to prevent Mischiefs that may happen by Fire
within the Weekly Bills of Mortality and other Places
therein mentioned) to view a certain Party Wall between
the Houses inhabited by Mr. John Harling< no role > and Mr. Robert
Peacock
< no role > sitnall on the Southside of the Strand in the Parish of
Saint Mary Le Stroud in the County of Middlesex & Do hereby
Certify to Your Worships That we have carefully view'd and
examined the said Party Wall, and the same appears to us in the
following State (that is to say) The said Party Wall is in thickness
in the better Story two Bricks, & from thence to the Garret Floor
one Brick and a half thick Except about eight Feet in width
(when the back stack of Chimneys belonging to Mr. Peacock's
House stood before the Fire) which is only one Brick thick
In Plumming the Wall from the Garret Floor to the better Floor,
At the Middle & both ends of the said Wall We found it Eleven
Inches & a half out of a Perpendicular inclining towards Mr.
Peacock's House.Part of the said Wall in the Cellar Story is
very




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