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<p n="418">To the Worshipfull the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50535_occ123">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50535_geo429">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Assembled at their General<lb></lb>
Quarter Sessions of the Peace hold in and for the said<lb></lb>
County at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50535_geo430">Hicks's Hall</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50535_geo431">Saint John's street</rs>
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<p n="419">We whose Names are hereunto subscribed being the Workmen<lb></lb>
appointed in pursuance of An Act of Parliament made & passed in the<lb></lb>
Eleventh Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the first &<lb></lb>
also of another Act passed in the fourth Year of his present Majesty<lb></lb>
both the said Acts being respectively intituled (An Act for the better<lb></lb>
Regulating of Buildings and to prevent Mischiefs that may happen by Fire<lb></lb>
within the Weekly Bills of Mortality and other Places<lb></lb>
therein mentioned) to view a certain Party Wall between<lb></lb>
the Houses inhabited by Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50535_n419-1">John Harling</rs>
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and Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50535_n419-2">Robert<lb></lb>
Peacock</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50535_n419-2" type="surname" value="Peacock"></interp>
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sitnall on the Southside of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50535_geo432">the Strand</rs>
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in the Parish of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50535_geo433">Saint Mary Le Stroud</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50535_geo434">County of Middlesex</rs>
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& Do hereby<lb></lb>
Certify to Your Worships That we have carefully view'd and<lb></lb>
examined the said Party Wall, and the same appears to us in the<lb></lb>
following State (that is to say) The said Party Wall is in thickness<lb></lb>
in the better Story two Bricks, & from thence to the Garret Floor<lb></lb>
one Brick and a half thick Except about eight Feet in width<lb></lb>
(when the back stack of Chimneys belonging to Mr. Peacock's<lb></lb>
House stood before the Fire) which is only one Brick thick<lb></lb>
In Plumming the Wall from the Garret Floor to the better Floor,<lb></lb>
At the Middle & both ends of the said Wall We found it Eleven<lb></lb>
Inches & a half out of a Perpendicular inclining towards Mr.<lb></lb>
Peacock's House.Part of the said Wall in the Cellar Story is<lb></lb>
very</p>
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