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<p n="3212">Continued Thursday 21st. April 1791</p>
<p n="3213">"Chapel Wardens of the Hospital and Precinct towards the charges of the<lb></lb>
"Pavements Scavenger Watch and Poor of the said Precinct"-The Covenant<lb></lb>
in some of (if not in all) the Leases extends to Lighting the Lamps and paying<lb></lb>
a fine for not serving the Office of Chapel Warden.All these Leases have<lb></lb>
been granted since the 7th. Geo: 3d. under which the present Occupiers claim the<lb></lb>
ExemptionYour Memorialists are warranted in concluding that in requiring<lb></lb>
this Covenant the Governors had in contemplation the Equity and reasonableness<lb></lb>
of the thing as well as the equal rights of their other Tenants in Bridewell<lb></lb>
Precinct some of whom Assented to the same Covenent on th express assurance<lb></lb>
and the rest under the unplied Idea that the clause was universal and the<lb></lb>
contribution was to be in a fair proportion with all the other Inhabitants of the<lb></lb>
Precinctof whom those on the new Embankment have long been a valuable part<lb></lb>
and have in fact contributed on account of the goodness of their Houses) neatly<lb></lb>
one sixth part of the whole expence that this was intended by the governors<lb></lb>
in the original Contract with the Lessees is fully evineed by the circumstance<lb></lb>
of the Ground Rent to which their Houses are subject being precisely the same<lb></lb>
as those immediately adjoining The Present Tenants cannot therefore contend<lb></lb>
for the exemption on the fooling of paying a consideration for it in the Rent<lb></lb>
or indeed of any other Hardship on the contrary they are even now far better<lb></lb>
off than their Neighbours in being clearly excused from all Government.<lb></lb>
Taxes in respect of their Ground and HousesSecondly your Memoralists<lb></lb>
further observe that when it became necessary to pave the interior parts of Bridewell<lb></lb>
Precinct the Money wanted for that purpose was bonowed by an Annuity of £48. on<lb></lb>
a life not yet expired and further debts to the amount of £130 have been since<lb></lb>
incurred in paving Et. all with the unanimous consent of the Inhabitants of<lb></lb>
the Precinct as well the Lessees on the new Embankment as the others-<lb></lb>
And that on many other occasions these Gentlemen have assisted at Vestrys-<lb></lb>
paid the Fire for not serving as Chapel Warden and in short have been uniformly<lb></lb>
Rated to and have actually paid the Rates in the same manner as the other-<lb></lb>
Inhabitants in conformity to the Covenants in their Leases.These the Lessees<lb></lb>
have not only taken this Ground on the express terms of Paying their proportion<lb></lb>
of those expences in common with your Memorialists but have also ratified<lb></lb>
that Covenant by many subsequent Acts of concurrence and thereby have<lb></lb>
waived the exemption and subjected themselves to the payment of those Rates<lb></lb>
just as a Tenant does by a Covenant to pay the Land Tax which by Act of<lb></lb>
Parliament is imposed on the LandlordFor reasons like these your<lb></lb>
Memorialists had concluded that the Occupiers of Houses on the new Embankment<lb></lb>
in Bridewell Precinct could not with any propriety contend for the Exemptions already<lb></lb>
mentioned but it having been suggested that they were encouraged in their doubts by a<lb></lb>
professional Man (the Clerk to this Hospital) and having themselves no wish to abridge the<lb></lb>
Just rights of their Neighbours your Memorialists became desirous to know how far<lb></lb>
the foregoing observations were legally founded and judged it proper to lay a Case<lb></lb>
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