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To the Worshipful the
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Justices of the Peace
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for the
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The Petition of
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Robt. Mc Intosh
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Most Humbly Sheweth
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That your Petitioner having contracted to perform all the Slating on
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the
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at
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Cold Bath fields
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with best Westmoreland Hates the
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Eaves to be three feet long; your Petitioner begs have to observe about
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the time that half the Slating was finished the
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Slates
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rose from Three pounds to Three and a half Guineas Per Ten
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which obliged your Petitioner to inform Mr Rogers Surveyor that
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a Cargo of Slates had arrived in the River but they had advanced the
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price as above on which Account it would hurt him very much to
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proceed with his Contract without an addition to the former price
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when Mr Rogers desired him to go on with his Contract and Petition
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the Magistrates on his Case as he had no doubt but they would make
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an allowancethe first board that sat your Petitioner presented a
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Petition praying your worships for an allowance of five Shillings Mr
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Square when: Mr Holland desired he might go on with his Work and
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they would consider of itwhen his Contract was finished
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he presented a Petition praying for the addition as abovebut his Petition
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was rejected on the Ground that the Slates ought to have been put in
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before the riseHe humbly begs leave to inform your Worships that it
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was not him but a Slater of the Name of Sandback who originally engaged
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for the Contract but Mr Rogers on enquiry not finding Mr Sandback or
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getting a Character of him till after your Petitioners Contract was
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entered into sent to him to know of he was willing to Contract for the
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above Work which he did at One Shilling per Square under the price
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that Sandback was to have and at the time your Petitioner engaged
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in the Contract the Lodges was then Boarded and ready for Slating and
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that part of the Building was almost up which obliged your
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