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<p n="425"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx ss:</note>
To his Maties <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ573">Justices of the peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
County of Middx: Assembled at their Generall<lb></lb>
Sessions of the peace held for the said County.</p>
<p n="426"> <lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">Report of the Comittee<lb></lb>
appointed to view<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo343">Chertsea bridge</rs>
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} Whereas at a Generall Quarter Sessions of the peace of Our Lord<lb></lb>
the King hold for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo344">Middx</rs>
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at Hicks Hall in St. John<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo345">Street</rs>
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in the said County by Adjournment on Tuesday the 19th Day of<lb></lb>
April in the Twelfth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George<lb></lb>
King of Great Britain Etc Upon Information given unto the said<lb></lb>
Court that such part of a publick Bridge called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo346">Chertsea Bridge</rs>
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as is<lb></lb>
in this County is very much Damnified by the Floods which happened<lb></lb>
the last Winter, one of the Arches thereof being broken down, and that<lb></lb>
the aforesaid part of the said Bridge is in Great Decay for want of<lb></lb>
Repair, and that it is very Requisite and necessary that the same<lb></lb>
should be forthwith Repaired and that it will Cost a Considerable<lb></lb>
Sum of Money to Repair and amend the same, It was thought<lb></lb>
fitt and Ordered by the Court that it should be and it was thereby<lb></lb>
recomended and Referred unto Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n426-1">Isaac Tillard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ574">Knt</rs>
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., James<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ575">Clitherow</rs>
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, William Cotesworth <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ576">Senr</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n426-2">John Ellis</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n426-3">Thomas West</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n426-4">Philip Willshire</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n426-5">Nicholas Bland</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ577">Esqrs</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ578">Justices of the peace</rs>
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<lb></lb>
for this County or any three of them, as a Comittee to take to their<lb></lb>
Assistance some Engineer or such able Workmen, as they should<lb></lb>
think fitt, and to take a view of such parts of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55600_geo347">Chertsea Bridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
aforesaid as is in this County, and to see if the same is out of the Repair,<lb></lb>
and if any and what Repairs are wanting and necessare, to be<lb></lb>
Done thereto, and if it should appear upon such View that the same<lb></lb>
is out of Repair, then to make an Estimate of what it will Cost to<lb></lb>
Repair the same, and to treat with Workmen touching the<lb></lb>
Repair thereof, And to Certify an Accompt of their proceedings,<lb></lb>
with their Opinion in Writing touching the premises, as soon as<lb></lb>
may be to the Court of Generall or Quarter Sessions of the peace,<lb></lb>
to be holden for this County, to the End such further Order may be<lb></lb>
made as the Court shall think Just.</p>
<p n="427">In pursuance of which said Order Wee whose names are<lb></lb>
subscribed being three in Number of the <obscured></obscured>
eferrees in the said Order<lb></lb>
named, together with <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55600_n427-1">William Ogbourne</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55600_occ579">Esqr</rs>
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and severall able<lb></lb>
Workmen (well Recomended and Capable of performing the said<lb></lb>
Works,) have taken a View of the said Bridge, and Do find the same<lb></lb>
to be much Damaged by the Great Floods last Winter, and so very</p>
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