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9th December 1773
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"At which Places Posts or Stones shall be set up by the directions of the
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Justices of the Peace
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which shall be esteemed to be the bounds and
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"extent of the said
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" that they could not upon the Strick test
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enquiry discover where the old Toll Post stood whence the Place were the
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Market begun was uncertain. But by the description of the Toll Post in
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the Act, and which the Committee were led to believe stood over against
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a house formerly Coventry House lately occupied by Lord Gorin
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which was three Doors from Coventry Cowet; and in regard that no
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Cart usually stood so high the Committee were of opinion That a Toll
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Post ought to be set down on the East side of the said
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over against the said House late
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Lord Gorins
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with an Inscription
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thereon "The Market begins here" and that the extent might be
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ascertained for the future that another be set up North of the House
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late the Phenix Inn at the lower end of
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with an Inscrip-
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-tion "The Market ends here for want of which 980 Superficial
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yards of Square Pavement had been repaired out of the Toll more than
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in the opinion of the Committee ought to have been, which was one
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great cause of the then debt. That the Increase of the buildings in
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the out parts of the Town thro' which the Farmers passed with their
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Hay and Straw afforded them an opportunity of supplying those
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Places without coming to Market whereby the Toll had decreased it
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having produc'd only the last four Years £100 per Annum: That the
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allowance of £10 P Annum to an Agent beside £20 P Annum to a
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Collector was more than could be afforded it being impracticable to keep
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so large an extent of Pavement (4590 Superficial Yards) in repair
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for £70 a year and therefore recommending the removal of the Toll
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Posts as above proposed. That none of the Inhabitants within the
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Limits of what has been called
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had in the least
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contributed towards the repair of the Pavement as they ought to
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have done (the Toll being granted only in case of the Inhabitants) as
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appears by 1S of 8th & 9th of W: and as the consideration of the best method
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of effectually repairing the same was referred it was thought impracticable
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to cause the same to be repaired or kept so, unless by a Contracts for
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21 Years at the least with some substantial Paviour who is was imagin'd
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