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January the 30 1798
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Dear Sr.
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I Received yours respecting Babers Bridge, and will
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endeavour to throw every light on the subject which I have in any power
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for the satisfaction of you and the Magestrates the following account meets
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their approbation I shall think my self happy.
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This Bridge hase been in a dangerous State for severall years
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past. it hath very much occupied the conversation of the publick but I never
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at aney time could learn, ever from the oldest Inhabitant in the neibourhood. by
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whome the present Bridge was built, It is above Twenty three Years Since
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I first had the Care Duke of Northumberland Bridges, which are very
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numerous in and about
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Hounslow
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neath) My Predecessor had the same Charge
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near forty years; from him I had every local information on Bridges and other
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right with respect to Baber Bridge he could give me no other information
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than that it did not belong to the Duke of Northumberland to repair but
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that the small Bridge at the East end of it belonged to the Duke:
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It is highly probable there has been no repairs to Baber Bridge for
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near sixty years unless aney hath been done by the Town pike Trustees
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I must observe the whole of that Bridge is within the
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; Former application hath been made to me respecting this
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Bridge which induced me to obtain every information in may power at that
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time looking over some ancient memorandoms I found a curious paper
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The substance of which was That the prior of
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Harmonds worth
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sent
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John Page
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and others his servants in the night time to Fish in the Earl of Cornwalls fond near
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Baberworth Bridge
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within the said Earls manor of
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Isleworth
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for which offence they
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were Indicted and found Guilty by a Jury composed of the inhabitants of the
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Hundred of
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and
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Elthorn
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, and were fined and Imprisoned for the same
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This is dated the 22d Year of the Reign of Esq. the 1st in the year 1294 Jonley
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relate this circumstance the shed that a Bridge casted at or near the same
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spot
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