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A rents a Capital Messuage or Mansion House
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in the City (late in Merchants) at £105 Pr. Ann
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when he exercises his Trade of a Cabinet Maker
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and to set case with Respect to the Kent A. lets
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out Part of this Capital. Messuage reads
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furnish'd to three eminent Merchants and
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Partners at £52 Pr. Ann.
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Two of these Partners and their Man
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Servant lay in the House have their Compting
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House and Bed Chamber's and other Apartments
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(the no Warehouses) and carry on an extensive
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Trade as Merchants in Baying selling and
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Remitting.
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Note: There is but one large Gate-way or Entry
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to this House and the Merchants Compting
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House and Apartments lay backwards towards
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the Garden and are separate or detached as it were
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from the Rest of the House or their better
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conveniency.
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It is an Evil complain'd of and hart fall
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to the Consonalty in general that Merchants in
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the City of London (Natives as well as Foreigners)
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who raise large Fortunes for themselves and
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Family by Trade should take this Method (as
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they frequently do) to screen themselves (as
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Lodgers or Inmates) from serving Ward or
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Parish Offices or Paying to Church and Poor
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whereby a due Rotation is prevented and the
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Weight and Burdon falls the heavier upon others
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of the Parish who are often lessable to serve or pay.
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