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December 1787

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the Worshipfull his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex in Session assembled,

The humble Petition of Several of the Inhabitants of the parishes of
Isleworth , Twickenham , and the parts adjacent, Subscribers towards the
rebuilding a Bridge at Isleworth , called the Rails Head Bridge.

Sheweth

That, on a Memorial being presented last year to your Worships by your Petition
:ers, (which was taken into Consideration last December Sessions, and Counsel heard
and Evidence given in support of it) your Worships were pleased to order, that the
Sum of one hundred pounds should be paid out of the County Rate, in aid of the Subscription
stated in the said Memorial to be, then raised, and raising for the purpose of rebuilding
the said Bridge, provided the Subscribers would undertake to rebuild the same
According to the Plan and Estimate annexed to the said Memorial, and that when
the same should be so rebuilt, it should in future to deemed a County Bridge, agreable
to a Determination of the Court of Kings Bench, on which the said Memorial was
four did, which the Committee who attened the hearing, on behalf of themselves and
the other Memorialists, Acceded to, and undertook to do the work on those terms, and
have compleated the same accodingly, But that a doubt being suggested at
the time of the said hearing, by one of the Magistrates, on eminert Architect,
whether the Waterway Provided for by the Arches, Specified in the Plan annexed
to the Memorial, would be quite sufficient, for the great weight of water that
sometimes after violent rains must pass through the same, It was recommended
by the Chairman, with the Approbation of the other magistrates present, to the said Committee
and their Architect Mr Payne, to make particular enquiry into that matter, and, if
necessary, by enlarging the Arches, to prevent (as for as possible) any danger in time
of floods to the new intended Bridge, and Consequently any future Expence to the
County.

That in Obedience to such Recommend action they made very diligent enquiry, away
the oldest Inhabitants and others, concerning the height and rapidity of the most violent
floods rememberd there, and after such inquiry, thought it expedient at least, to
alter the Plan, and by enlarging it, and making the arches both higher and wider,
to provide more waterway, to prevent (as for as could be) any possibility of the new




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