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Petitioner did alter the same And Put a New Story Post in the front thereof under the
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And for which your Petitioner Paid the said
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the Sum of One Pounds five Shillings And of the regularity of which
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made an Affidavit before the Worshipfull
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John Sherwood
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Esquire And delivered the same to your Petitioner And Informed your Petitioner the
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Such affidavit was an Indemnify for your Petitioner against all Informers ander
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three Weeks afterwards the said
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Summoned
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the Working
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Employed to do the said Work before the Worshipfull
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Robert Pell
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and Davi'd Wiln
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Esquires to Shew Cause why the said
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should not alter the said Work
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agrecable to the Rules and Regulation in the said Act which they upon bearing
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dismiss with a severe reprimand to the said
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for such
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hath Contrary
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to the Rules and Regulation
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in the said Act Permitted Simbers to be put in a Party Wall of a
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house in Dorset
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in the
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Parish of Christ Church
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aforesaid belonging to Mr. Paillett of
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within
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Undertaker
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That the said
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hath also res
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itred and Verified by Affid
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that a Party Wall of a House belonging to Messrs. Saunders and Quarry in
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Rose La
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Spitalfields
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aforesaid is built and finished according to the Regulation in the said
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That Your Petitioners Apprehend and humbly Conceive that the sa
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william Stokes
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is not only un skill
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in the Art of Building but has Likewise
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behaved himself Negligently and
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faithfully in the discharge of his Duty And
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therefore is a very Improper Person to be a Surveyor or supervisor of Buildings under
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Therefore Your Petitioners humbly Pray that your Worship
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would be Pleased to discharge the said
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Williams Stokes
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from
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Office of Surveyor or Supervisor
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for the said Stamled And Parish
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aforesaid or that your Petitioners may have Such further or ot
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Relief in the Premisses as to your Worships Shall Seem meet
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And Proper Etc.
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William Starr
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Walter Ferguson
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William. Watson
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Thos Marfleet
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