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the 9th. of February last under the hands of the
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Richard Bridgman
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& Mr. Deputy Smart in the words and figures following Vizt.
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In Pursuance of an Order of Court of the 27th. of October last This Comee
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takeing into Consideration the petition of
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of the Parish of
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for 61 years and proposing to build there on Six
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Houses in Front and as many houses Downwards as the Ground will permit
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and to pays £35. P Ann Rent clear of all Taxes and a fine of £150. and to
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execute Counterparts of the said Leases and the first Year at a pepper Corn
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RentThe said
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now altered his proposals, and proposed to this
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Comee to take a Lease or Leases of three houses on the East side of
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and two on the North side of the same passage for the Term of
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Sixty years to commence from Laday 1738 and also to take a Lease or
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the whole Ground containing
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in front 108 foot and in depth 256 foot or thereabouts for the term of 61
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years from Laday next and to pay to pepper Corn Rent for the first year of
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the said Term of 61 years for such of the premes which he proposed to take
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for that Term and to pay the Rent of £55 a Year clear of Taxes by
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quarterly payments for all the premes abovesaid for the Term of
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60 Years to commence from Laday 1738 and to pay to fine of £200.
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the Leases to be made with such Covenants as are usually granted from
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the Governors to their Tenants at Bethlem and the said
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to have the Old Materials, and he proposed to build on the said Ground
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and premes 6 Houses in front and 20 Houses backwards and to make a
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Street 13 or 14 foot wide and a passage 9 foot wide out of Bethlem
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street open to the Sky and leave
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open into Bethlem Court
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as it now is and build the front Houses according to the second rate of
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Building, and all the rest to be brick houses with party Walls, and to
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Execute Counterparts of the said LeasesMr.
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Edward Gibbs
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of the
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London
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proposed for
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the same premes for a term of 61 years from Mich next to pay a pepper Corn
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Rent for the first Year and £50. P Ann for the residue of the Term and to pay
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£100. for a fine or in lieu thereof to make up the Rent £60. P Ann and to
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build on the said Ground 22 Houses, & to build according to the second rate of
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Building 5 Houses in the frontMr.
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George Graves
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likewise proposed
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to take a Lease for 61 years of the Ground & premes for which the said
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John
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Baker
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hath above proposed to comence from Laday next at a pepper Corn
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Rent for the first year & £20. P Ann for the remaining 60 years and to
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pay a Fine of £250. and likewise proposed to take a Lease of a peice of
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Ground on the South side of
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Bethlem Street
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(now in Lease to
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Isabella Finch
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for a Term of years which expires at Xmas 1742) for 56 years & ½ to commence
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</
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from the Expiration of the said Lease at £20. P Ann rent clear of all Taxes
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</
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and to pay a Fine of £150. or otherwise to take the same Subject to the Lease
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</
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in being and pay the Arrears due. 4 thereon having an Assignmt. there of
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and to give £500. fine and £50. P Ann Rent as well for the said last mentioned
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</
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Premes as for the premes for which the said
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John Baker
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</
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type
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"Baker"
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inst
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above proposed, for a term of
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</
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>
61 years from Laday next but refused to take the ground for wch. Baker proposed,
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>
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>
without the said Ground on the South side of
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Bethlem Street
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Whereupon
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</
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>
this Comee having considered the said several proposals are of Opinion to accept
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>
</
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>
the proposal of the said
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John Baker
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>
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inst
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interp
>
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inst
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=
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</
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>
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inst
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>
Upon which he gave a Guinea to the poor's Cox
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lb
>
</
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>
All which is nevertheless submitted to the Judgment of the CourtAnd it is
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>
</
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>
ordered this opinion be reported to the next CourtThis Court doth
<
lb
>
</
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>
confirm the said Report & Order that a Lease or Leases be made to the
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
said Mr. Baker accordingly.
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