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<p n="187"> <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55606_date38">9th December 1773</rs>
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<p n="188">"At which Places Posts or Stones shall be set up by the directions of the<lb></lb>
"said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55606_occ112">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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which shall be esteemed to be the bounds and<lb></lb>
"extent of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55606_geo186">Haymarket</rs>
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" that they could not upon the Strick test<lb></lb>
enquiry discover where the old Toll Post stood whence the Place were the<lb></lb>
Market begun was uncertain. But by the description of the Toll Post in<lb></lb>
the Act, and which the Committee were led to believe stood over against<lb></lb>
a house formerly Coventry House lately occupied by Lord Gorin<lb></lb>
which was three Doors from Coventry Cowet; and in regard that no<lb></lb>
Cart usually stood so high the Committee were of opinion That a Toll<lb></lb>
Post ought to be set down on the East side of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55606_geo187">Haymarket</rs>
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over against the said House late <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55606_occ113">Lord Gorins</rs>
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with an Inscription<lb></lb>
thereon "The Market begins here" and that the extent might be<lb></lb>
ascertained for the future that another be set up North of the House<lb></lb>
late the Phenix Inn at the lower end of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55606_geo188">the Haymarket</rs>
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with an Inscrip-<lb></lb>
-tion "The Market ends here for want of which 980 Superficial<lb></lb>
yards of Square Pavement had been repaired out of the Toll more than<lb></lb>
in the opinion of the Committee ought to have been, which was one<lb></lb>
great cause of the then debt. That the Increase of the buildings in<lb></lb>
the out parts of the Town thro' which the Farmers passed with their<lb></lb>
Hay and Straw afforded them an opportunity of supplying those<lb></lb>
Places without coming to Market whereby the Toll had decreased it<lb></lb>
having produc'd only the last four Years £100 per Annum: That the<lb></lb>
allowance of £10 P Annum to an Agent beside £20 P Annum to a<lb></lb>
Collector was more than could be afforded it being impracticable to keep<lb></lb>
so large an extent of Pavement (4590 Superficial Yards) in repair<lb></lb>
for £70 a year and therefore recommending the removal of the Toll<lb></lb>
Posts as above proposed. That none of the Inhabitants within the<lb></lb>
Limits of what has been called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55606_geo189">the Haymarket</rs>
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had in the least<lb></lb>
contributed towards the repair of the Pavement as they ought to<lb></lb>
have done (the Toll being granted only in case of the Inhabitants) as<lb></lb>
appears by 1S of 8th & 9th of W: and as the consideration of the best method<lb></lb>
of effectually repairing the same was referred it was thought impracticable<lb></lb>
to cause the same to be repaired or kept so, unless by a Contracts for<lb></lb>
21 Years at the least with some substantial Paviour who is was imagin'd</p>
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