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<p n="19"> <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55606_date6">9th September 1773</rs>
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<p n="20">And Mr Rogers is further of Opinion upon the particular Inspection<lb></lb>
aforesaid That some Erections have been made and Buildings laid<lb></lb>
against some other parts of the Boundary Walls of the said Prison which<lb></lb>
from the situation Abuttals Circumstances and appearance of the said<lb></lb>
erections may Justly be deemed encroachments But especially a small<lb></lb>
Shed or Cottage which has been built within a very few years back against<lb></lb>
part of the said South Boundary Wall near into the Great Gate of the<lb></lb>
Said Prison on the West side thereof and against a part of the Boundary<lb></lb>
Wall flanking the said great Gate to the West which said Shed or Cottage<lb></lb>
is now occupied and used as a Chandlers Shop and the Right to it<lb></lb>
now claimed by a Mrs Sharp of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55606_geo14">Fleet Street</rs>
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and under held of her by<lb></lb>
the present occupier That in carrying into execution the Plan of<lb></lb>
Repairs and alterations determined to be made in and to the said<lb></lb>
Prison the walls against which the said Erections are built must be,<lb></lb>
pulled down & the said Erections laid open and endangered, wherefore<lb></lb>
Mr Rogers humbly submited the Premises to the consideration of the<lb></lb>
Committee and Prayed their orders therein for his further Proceeding.<lb></lb>
The Committee took a View of the abovementioned Wall and they further<lb></lb>
Report that the same has of ancient time been a Boundary Wall belonging<lb></lb>
to the Said Prison and that the Timber Building erected by Mr Nightingale<lb></lb>
is an encroachment on the right of the County of Middlesex in the same<lb></lb>
which Resolution together with the rest of the Matters contained in the<lb></lb>
Surveyors State the Committee ordered to be reported to his Majestys Justices<lb></lb>
Assembled on the next County day and desired the Party's mentioned in the<lb></lb>
Surveyors Report to attend Hicks Hall at 4 O'Clock in the afternoon of<lb></lb>
the same day</p>
<p n="21">The said Committee further Report</p>
<p n="22">That as the said Prison must necessarily from the carrying on of the said<lb></lb>
Repair be Rendered weaker and still more insecure with Respect to safety of<lb></lb>
the Prisoners there Confined the Committee thought it necessary to order the Clerk<lb></lb>
to send Letters to the acting Justices of the said County Recommending it to<lb></lb>
them not to Commit capital Offenders to the said Prison while the Repair<lb></lb>
of the said Prison is in hand which order from the Clerks Report to this<lb></lb>
Committee has been fully complied with.</p>
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