To the Worshipfull Sir John Hawkins< no role > Knight And the res [..]
his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex in the
General Session of the Peace Assembled

The Humble Petition of Thomas Bawdwen< no role > of Hope Street [..]
the Parish of Christ Church in the County of Middlesex aforesaid Gen [..]
William Harrison< no role > of Dorset Street in the Same Parish Victualler Baker wal [..]
Ferguson of Lamb Street in the same Parish Victualler William Wa [..]
of Wheeler Street in the Same Parish Carpenter Thomas Marflet< no role > of [..]
Pater Noster Row in the Same Parish Butcher and of Benjamin Hill< no role >
Montague Street in the Same Parish Tallow Chandler .

Sheweth.

That by an Act of Parliament made and Passed in the fourteenth [..]
Year of the Reign of his Present Majesty King George the third Intilled An Act for the
" [..] further and better Regulation of Buildings and Party Walls And for the more
"Effectually Preventing Mischiefs by Fire within the Cities of London and Westminster
"and the Liberties thereof And other the Place therein mentioned And for other Purs [..]
"in such Act mentioned It is (amongst other things) Enacted That if should be
Lawfull for the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex in their General [..]
Sessions And they are thereby Required within their respective Jurisdictions to Na [..]
And Appoint Such and so many dis [..] Persons Skilled in the art of Building a [..]
said Justices in their respective Quarter Sessions should think fit to be during the [..]
will and Pleasure the Surveyors or Supervisors to See the Rules and Regulation in the [..]
said Act mentioned well and truly Observed.

That on the Twenty Second of July One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy
four William Stokes< no role > of the Parish of St. Ann Limehouse in the County aforesaid was [..]
Appointed Surveyor or Supervisor under the said Act by you Worships for the Hamlet
Mile end New Town And the Parishes of Christ Church Spitalfields And St. Paul
Shadwell in the said County of Middlesex to See the Rules and Regulation ins [..]
Ad well and truly Observed.

That your Petitioners humbly Apprehend that there are in andly th [..]
said Act but two Cases in which the Surveyors or Supervisors under the said
are directed to be Called in to see the Rules and Regulation in the said Act tru [..]
Observed which is in Case of any Workman or other Person begining any Building [..]
any wall on New or old Foundations or on Foundations Partly New and Partly old [..]
or make any Addition thereto And in Case any Person shall but into any Party
wall after the time therein mentioned.

That Your Petitioner Thomas Bawdwen< no role > having Occasion to take de [..]
a small Forge which was fixed in a Chimney of a house [..] Phenix Street for the Conserved
of a Tenant Your Petitioner did take down the same And Cause the Jambs of the

Chirman [..]