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To the Worshipfull the
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Assembled at their General
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Quarter Sessions of the Peace hold in and for the said
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County at
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We whose Names are hereunto subscribed being the Workmen
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appointed in pursuance of An Act of Parliament made & passed in the
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Eleventh Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the first &
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also of another Act passed in the fourth Year of his present Majesty
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both the said Acts being respectively intituled (An Act for the better
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Regulating of Buildings and to prevent Mischiefs that may happen by Fire
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within the Weekly Bills of Mortality and other Places
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therein mentioned) to view a certain Party Wall between
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the Houses inhabited by Mr.
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John Harling
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and Mr.
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Robert
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& Do hereby
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Certify to Your Worships That we have carefully view'd and
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examined the said Party Wall, and the same appears to us in the
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following State (that is to say) The said Party Wall is in thickness
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in the better Story two Bricks, & from thence to the Garret Floor
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one Brick and a half thick Except about eight Feet in width
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(when the back stack of Chimneys belonging to Mr. Peacock's
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House stood before the Fire) which is only one Brick thick
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In Plumming the Wall from the Garret Floor to the better Floor,
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At the Middle & both ends of the said Wall We found it Eleven
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Inches & a half out of a Perpendicular inclining towards Mr.
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Peacock's House.Part of the said Wall in the Cellar Story is
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