Sir Charles Whitworth< no role > reported from the Committee
of Justices appointed on Monday the 4th. of January
1773 to view the State and Condition of Chertsey
Bridge That on Monday the 11th. Instant the
said Committee, consisting of Sir Charles Whitworth< no role >
Thomas Wood< no role > , Jonathan Chadwick Durden< no role > [..]
John Phillips< no role > , Stephen Cole< no role > , William Shakespear< no role >
John Brettell< no role > , and John Barnfather< no role > Esquires ,
met at Chertsey Bridge and surveyed the Damage
which had been done by the late Flood and
That the several Works order'd by Mr Durder to
secure the Public pabage had been very properly
executed and the Bridge is at present very sefe
unless any unforeseen Floods should damage
it.

That "as to the Cause of the great Weight
of Water which is thrown on the North [..] of
the Bridge and the most effectual Method to
prevent the same for the future," the Committee
have hereunto annexed the Report of Messrs.
Yeomans & Parsons, Surveyors, which they
submit to the Justices at their Quarter, Session
to order the same to be carried into Execution

The Committee likewise represent that during
the Course of this Enquiry Mr. Clark of
Chertsey informed them an Application was
intended to be made to parliament for a Bill
to improve the Navigation of the Rivers Thames
and [..] from London to Cricklade Which
appear to this Committee to afford an opportunity
of introducing a Clause to answers the purposes