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<p n="4115">Thursday <rs type="date" id="BBBRMG20205_date422">17th. Feb. 1736/7</rs>
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<p n="4116"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">BakerJohnTo have<lb></lb>
Leases of Houses & Ground in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2177">Globe Yard</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2178">Old Bethlem</rs>
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Upon reading a Report from the Committee of this House bearing date<lb></lb>
the 9th. of February last under the hands of the <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ7114">Right Worspll.</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-1">Robert<lb></lb>
Alsop</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ7115">Esqr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ7116">Alderman</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ7117">Trear</rs>
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, <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ7118">Dr.</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-2">Richard Rawlinson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-3">Walter Pryse</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ7119">Esqr</rs>
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.,<lb></lb>
Mr. <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-4">Thomas Pestell</rs>
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, Mr. Deputy Farington, Mr. <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-5">Richard Bridgman</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
Mr. Deputy Davis, Mr. <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-17">Allen Webb</rs>
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, Mr. <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-6">Walter Bernard</rs>
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, Mr. <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-7">James<lb></lb>
Bartlett</rs>
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& Mr. Deputy Smart in the words and figures following Vizt.<lb></lb>
In Pursuance of an Order of Court of the 27th. of October last This Comee<lb></lb>
takeing into Consideration the petition of <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-8">John Baker</rs>
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of the Parish of <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2179">St.<lb></lb>
Leonard Shoreditch</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ7120">Carpenter</rs>
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praying a Lease or Leases of all the Houses in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2180">Globe Yard</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2181">Old Bethlem</rs>
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for 61 years and proposing to build there on Six<lb></lb>
Houses in Front and as many houses Downwards as the Ground will permit<lb></lb>
and to pays £35. P Ann Rent clear of all Taxes and a fine of £150. and to<lb></lb>
execute Counterparts of the said Leases and the first Year at a pepper Corn<lb></lb>
RentThe said <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-9">John Baker</rs>
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now altered his proposals, and proposed to this<lb></lb>
Comee to take a Lease or Leases of three houses on the East side of <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2182">Globe<lb></lb>
Yard</rs>
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Vizt. one on the South side of the passage leading to <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2183">Bethlem<lb></lb>
Court</rs>
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and two on the North side of the same passage for the Term of<lb></lb>
Sixty years to commence from Laday 1738 and also to take a Lease or<lb></lb>
Leases of the rest of the Ground & Buildings in <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2184">Globe Yard</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
and two <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2185">Swann Yard</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2186">Old Bethlem</rs>
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the whole Ground containing<lb></lb>
in front 108 foot and in depth 256 foot or thereabouts for the term of 61<lb></lb>
years from Laday next and to pay to pepper Corn Rent for the first year of<lb></lb>
the said Term of 61 years for such of the premes which he proposed to take<lb></lb>
for that Term and to pay the Rent of £55 a Year clear of Taxes by<lb></lb>
quarterly payments for all the premes abovesaid for the Term of<lb></lb>
60 Years to commence from Laday 1738 and to pay to fine of £200.<lb></lb>
the Leases to be made with such Covenants as are usually granted from<lb></lb>
the Governors to their Tenants at Bethlem and the said <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-10">John Baker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to have the Old Materials, and he proposed to build on the said Ground<lb></lb>
and premes 6 Houses in front and 20 Houses backwards and to make a<lb></lb>
Street 13 or 14 foot wide and a passage 9 foot wide out of Bethlem<lb></lb>
street open to the Sky and leave <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2187">the passage</rs>
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open into Bethlem Court<lb></lb>
as it now is and build the front Houses according to the second rate of<lb></lb>
Building, and all the rest to be brick houses with party Walls, and to<lb></lb>
Execute Counterparts of the said LeasesMr. <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-11">Edward Gibbs</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2188">Parish of Sr. Buttolph without Bishopsgate</rs>
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London <rs type="occupation" id="BBBRMG20205_occ7121">Carpenter</rs>
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proposed for<lb></lb>
the same premes for a term of 61 years from Mich next to pay a pepper Corn<lb></lb>
Rent for the first Year and £50. P Ann for the residue of the Term and to pay<lb></lb>
£100. for a fine or in lieu thereof to make up the Rent £60. P Ann and to<lb></lb>
build on the said Ground 22 Houses, & to build according to the second rate of<lb></lb>
Building 5 Houses in the frontMr. <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-12">George Graves</rs>
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likewise proposed<lb></lb>
to take a Lease for 61 years of the Ground & premes for which the said <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-13">John<lb></lb>
Baker</rs>
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hath above proposed to comence from Laday next at a pepper Corn<lb></lb>
Rent for the first year & £20. P Ann for the remaining 60 years and to<lb></lb>
pay a Fine of £250. and likewise proposed to take a Lease of a peice of<lb></lb>
Ground on the South side of <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2189">Bethlem Street</rs>
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(now in Lease to <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-14">Isabella Finch</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for a Term of years which expires at Xmas 1742) for 56 years & ½ to commence<lb></lb>
from the Expiration of the said Lease at £20. P Ann rent clear of all Taxes<lb></lb>
and to pay a Fine of £150. or otherwise to take the same Subject to the Lease<lb></lb>
in being and pay the Arrears due. 4 thereon having an Assignmt. there of<lb></lb>
and to give £500. fine and £50. P Ann Rent as well for the said last mentioned<lb></lb>
Premes as for the premes for which the said <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-15">John Baker</rs>
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above proposed, for a term of<lb></lb>
61 years from Laday next but refused to take the ground for wch. Baker proposed,<lb></lb>
without the said Ground on the South side of <rs type="placeName" id="BBBRMG20205_geo2190">Bethlem Street</rs>
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Whereupon<lb></lb>
this Comee having considered the said several proposals are of Opinion to accept<lb></lb>
the proposal of the said <rs type="persName" id="BBBRMG20205_n4116-16">John Baker</rs>
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Upon which he gave a Guinea to the poor's Cox<lb></lb>
All which is nevertheless submitted to the Judgment of the CourtAnd it is<lb></lb>
ordered this opinion be reported to the next CourtThis Court doth<lb></lb>
confirm the said Report & Order that a Lease or Leases be made to the<lb></lb>
said Mr. Baker accordingly.</p>
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