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