and consequently the Arch fallen in, and since the Sidewalls, and abutments and the
other Arch an so much decayed and damaged, that it is, in the opinion of Mr
Payne, an able Architect (who has been consulted, and has surveyed it accurately)
impossible to repair it, or at least very unadvisable to attempt it, particularly as
the situation of it, being just at a sudden sharp turn of the Stream where
consequently there is in flood times a violent Eddy, which appears to have
been the chief cause of the later Bridge being destroyed as aforesaid, requires
the situation of it to be removed nearer to the Thames to avoid that
Evil in future,

That the said Inhabitants, and others, your memorialists, have had several
meetings lately to consider of the best means to procure a new Bridge
to be built There, for the safety, as well as the Convenience, not only of the
Neighbourhood, but o all persons travelling over that past of the Kings Highway
and directed Mr. Dayne to examine the soil on the proper spot for buildings a
new Bridge, & to given in a Plan and Estimate of the Expense likely to be
in carred by buildings the same, who hath so done, and by the Plan and estimate
hereto appears it appears, as the Soil is such as to require plan king and piling
under the Piers, that the expense, exclusive of the surveyors Comission, will
amount to 273:19:4.

When upon at a Meeting held of the said Inhabitants and others at the
London Apprentice in Isleworth on the 19th. of August last, It was Resolved,
"That unless the Sum of £300 can be raised, the Bridge cannot be rebuilt
"Effectually" & that a subscription be immediately set on foot, and sollicited
"this' Isleworth Twinkenham, Richmond & the adjacent parishes for that
"Purpose", which has been accordingly done, and a considerable Sum subs [..] ,
which the subscribers, your Mem [..] and desires to have
applied towards the rebuilding the said Bridge in an effectual manner.

But as it appears, that the Sum likely to be raised by such subscription
will not be sufficient to build a shore useful substantial Bridges, such
as they wish to Love built, for the benefit, not only of the neighbourhood,
but of the public in general, not only for the use of the present
Generation, but of Posterity, and being advised that by a Determination
of the Court of Kings Bench, (a Report of which is hereunto annexed,