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By Adjornmt. on Thursday the
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10th. day of July 1740
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Order made upon the
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petition of Wm. Body praying
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to have a lease granted of
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a house with the appurts
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appointing a Committee
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Whereas
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William Body
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hath exhibited his humble petition
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unto this Court Settingforth That the Petr. being Tennant of the
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messuage or tenement with the appurtenances Scituate in the
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in this County comonly called
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the
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formerly let by lease by the Justices of the
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peace of the Said County to
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James Baynham
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late Citizen &
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Merchant Taylor of
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for the term of twenty one years
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(which Said term of will expire at Lady day one thousand Seven
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hundred and forty two) at the rent of twenty pounds P annum,
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And that the Said house & premisses being in a very bad and
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ruinous condition, the main walls & principal timbers
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thereof being much decayed & rotten, and the pond being So
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very foul that it is now become a Nusance, and if cleaned would
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cost at least the Sum of twelve pounds, And that the Petr.
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having within these two years last past laid out & expended in
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the repaireing & amending the Said house and in opening the
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old and making a new drain to carry off the water from the
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Said pond the Sum of fifty pounds and upwards, and the Said
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house of and premisses being Still in So bad & ruinous a
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condition that unless immediate care be taken Sufficiently to
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repaire & amend the Same the Same will become uninhabitable,
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And that the Petr. being ready & willing after Such repaires
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made to take a new lease of the Said premisses to comence from
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the end & expiration of the Said term granted to the Said
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as aforesaid at & under the yearly rent of
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twenty pounds with usual covenants, It was therefore humbly
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prayed by the Petr. (In regard of the expence he hath been
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already at) that the Said Messuage & premisses may be put into
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good & Sufficient repaire, and Such new lease granted to the
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Petr. as aforesaid, whereupon It is Ordered by this Court that it be
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And It is hereby recomended & referred unto the Committee of his
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Maties Justices of the peace
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repairing of the
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Thomas Lane
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Nicholas Jeffreys
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Thomas Pindar
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Simon Michell
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John Lawton
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Richard Farwell
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Jacob Harvey
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Barwell
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Smith
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William Browning
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William Hayton
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Honorat Smith
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&
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Anthony Wroth
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interp
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>
</
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Esquires
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interp
inst
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or any three of them to meet together at the
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Red Lyon
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<
lb
>
</
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Coffee house
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in
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Red Lyon Street Clerkenwell
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inst
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>
and to proceed to
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
take a view of the Said Messuage with the appurtenances
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
called the
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Mulberry Garden
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>
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in the Said
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parish of St. James
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</
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lb
>
</
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>
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Clerkenwell
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>
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interp
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>
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>
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interp
inst
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=
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, and to See in what condition the Same is as to
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
the want to repaires, And to examine into the truth of the
<
lb
>
</
lb
>
allegations contained in the Said Petition, and to inquire
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p
>
</
div1
>
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