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<p n="257">To the Worshipful the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50925_occ73">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50925_geo249">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="258">The Petition of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50925_n258-1">Robt. Mc Intosh</rs>
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<p n="259"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Most Humbly Sheweth</note>
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That your Petitioner having contracted to perform all the Slating on<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50925_geo250">New Prison</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50925_geo251">Cold Bath fields</rs>
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with best Westmoreland Hates the<lb></lb>
Eaves to be three feet long; your Petitioner begs have to observe about<lb></lb>
the time that half the Slating was finished the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50925_geo252">Westmoreland</rs>
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Slates<lb></lb>
rose from Three pounds to Three and a half Guineas Per Ten<lb></lb>
which obliged your Petitioner to inform Mr Rogers Surveyor that<lb></lb>
a Cargo of Slates had arrived in the River but they had advanced the<lb></lb>
price as above on which Account it would hurt him very much to<lb></lb>
proceed with his Contract without an addition to the former price<lb></lb>
when Mr Rogers desired him to go on with his Contract and Petition<lb></lb>
the Magistrates on his Case as he had no doubt but they would make<lb></lb>
an allowancethe first board that sat your Petitioner presented a<lb></lb>
Petition praying your worships for an allowance of five Shillings Mr<lb></lb>
Square when: Mr Holland desired he might go on with his Work and<lb></lb>
they would consider of itwhen his Contract was finished<lb></lb>
he presented a Petition praying for the addition as abovebut his Petition<lb></lb>
was rejected on the Ground that the Slates ought to have been put in<lb></lb>
before the riseHe humbly begs leave to inform your Worships that it<lb></lb>
was not him but a Slater of the Name of Sandback who originally engaged<lb></lb>
for the Contract but Mr Rogers on enquiry not finding Mr Sandback or<lb></lb>
getting a Character of him till after your Petitioners Contract was<lb></lb>
entered into sent to him to know of he was willing to Contract for the<lb></lb>
above Work which he did at One Shilling per Square under the price<lb></lb>
that Sandback was to have and at the time your Petitioner engaged<lb></lb>
in the Contract the Lodges was then Boarded and ready for Slating and<lb></lb>
that part of the Building was almost up which obliged your</p>
<p n="260">Petitioner</p>
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