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<p n="1377">By Adjornmt. on Thursday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55601_date189">22d. day of May 1740</rs>
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<p n="1378"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for receiving<lb></lb>
proposalls & contracting<lb></lb>
with Workmen touching<lb></lb>
the building of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1562">Brentford</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1563">Bridge</rs>
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Etc.}</note>
Whereas Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1378-1">Joseph Ayloffe</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1378-2">Houlding Bart</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1945">Sr</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1378-3">Edward Hill</rs>
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Knt.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1378-4">Nathaniel Blackerby</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1378-5">John Milner</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1378-6">George Feroke</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1946">Esquires</rs>
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being a<lb></lb>
Quorum of the Committee of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1947">Justices of the peace</rs>
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of this County<lb></lb>
appointed by an Order of the Seventeenth day of April last<lb></lb>
to employ an Engineer or Skilfull persons to lay before the said<lb></lb>
Committee Such method plans and proposalls as might be<lb></lb>
most proper for rebuilding <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1564">Brentford Bridge</rs>
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with Stone, and to<lb></lb>
take an account or estimate of the charge thereof, have by<lb></lb>
their Report in writing dated the Sixteenth day of May instant<lb></lb>
now delivered into this Court certifyed That they did employ Mr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1378-7">Charles Labelye</rs>
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a Skilfull Engineer (and who is Engineer to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1565">Westminster Bridge</rs>
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Commissrs) Who having carefully viewed<lb></lb>
the Situation of the present Bridge at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1566">Brentford</rs>
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hath prepared<lb></lb>
& laid before the said Committee a Plan or Design for rebuilding<lb></lb>
the Said Bridge Partly of Brick and Partly of Stone and an<lb></lb>
explanation thereof, as also an estimate of the expence of building the Palne which plan explanation & estimate were annexed to the<lb></lb>
said Report, And that it appearing to the said Committee that<lb></lb>
the said estimate was made upon a Supposition that the said<lb></lb>
Bridge Should be only twenty two feet wide in the Clear the<lb></lb>
said Committee were of opinion that <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1567">the Bridge</rs>
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Should be<lb></lb>
twenty five feet wide in the clear for the benefit of Foot<lb></lb>
Passengers as well as carriages & Horsemen, the doing of<lb></lb>
which will in the opinion of Mr. Labelye increase the expence<lb></lb>
of building the said Bridge about one hundred pounds over &<lb></lb>
above the said estimate annexed to the same Report, which the<lb></lb>
said Committee conceive will be a proper Bridge, and approve<lb></lb>
of the Said plan and Design,and are of opinion that <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo1568">the Bridge</rs>
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<lb></lb>
may be built according to the Said Design for the Sum of one<lb></lb>
thousand two hundred pounds, and that an Advertizement<lb></lb>
Should be published in one or more of the News Papers to give<lb></lb>
Publick notice of a day time & place for the said Committee to<lb></lb>
meet to receive proposalls from the Several Workmen who<lb></lb>
will undertake to build the said Bridge according to the said<lb></lb>
Plan,which with the explanation thereof ought to do be<lb></lb>
deposited with the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1948">Clerk of the peace</rs>
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or some other proper person<lb></lb>
for the inspection of Such Workmen as may be willing to<lb></lb>
Contract for the building thereof, And that it Should also be<lb></lb>
mentioned in the said Advertizement that the said Committee<lb></lb>
will give full Satisfaction to any person or persons who shall<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1949">undertake</rs>
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to build the said Bridge that punctual payment<lb></lb>
shall be made as the work is carried on, And that the Committee<lb></lb>
cannot make any Report touching the other matters mentioned<lb></lb>
in the said Order because Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1378-8">Thomas Reynell</rs>
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Bart. James<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1950">Clitherow</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n1378-9">Robert Hinde</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55601_n1378-9" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ1951">Esquires</rs>
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did<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
not attend the Said<lb></lb>
Committee altho' Sumond to make appear what Orders &</p>
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