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By adjournment on Thursday the
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17th. Day of January
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Order made upon the Report.
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of the Committee concerning.
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the repairing the Middx part
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of Chertsea Bridge.}
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A Report being made unto this Court by
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being a Quorum of his Majestys
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of this County ( to whom it was referred by Order of Sessions
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of the eighth day of December last to view and See what
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Repairs and Amendments were wanting & necessary to
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be done to the Middx part of
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to the
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Same may be well and Sufficiently repaired) It appeareth
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to the Court by the Said Report that the Said Committee
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did on the twenty Ninth Day of December last take a
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view of the aforesaid part of the Said Bridge and do report
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that Several Piles are broke and Splinted and be at out
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of their Trussell Heads, And that the Great Arch of the
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Said Bridge which is on the Middx Side is only Supported
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by one Pile, and that part of the Said Bridge is in very
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great danger of falling down and that if any Barge or
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Craft Should by wilfulness accident or otherwise run against
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the Said Pile which now only support the Said great Arch
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and Should beat it down or out of its Trussell Head that
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great part of the Said Bridge for want of that little Support
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must inevitably fall which would not only put a total
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Stop & obstruction to all his Majestys liege Subjects from
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passing with their Coaches Carts Carriages and on foot over
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the Said Bridge and Barges and Crafts under the Said
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, but also put the County to large Expence in
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rebuilding the Same, And that the Committee not taking
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any workmen with them but depended upon Seeing one
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Mr. Brown a
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Carpenter
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, could not then have
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Estimate or take any Account of what Repairs were wanting
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and necessary to be done, And that therefore the Committee
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adjourned over and met again on the fourth day of this instant
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January and directed Mr. Brown to take a view of the Said
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and make an Estimate of what Repairs were wanting
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And necessary to be done with the Costs to repair the Same
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And that the Committee did meet according to appointment
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