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To his Majties: Justices of the Peace for the County of
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Middlesex at their Genall Quarter Sessions of the
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now holden at Hicks Hall in St John Street in &
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for the said County
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This is to Certify that in pursuance of an Act of Parliament
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made in the second year of the Reign of our Law Sovereign Lord of
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Lady King William & Queen Mary intituled an Act for paving &
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Cleansing the streets in the Cities of London & Westminster
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and Liberties thereof, and out Parishes in the Couty of Middlx
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and in the Borough of South wark, and other places within the
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Weekly Bill of Mortality, in the County of Surrey,and for
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regulating the Marketts therein-mentioned, We whose hands are
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hereunto sett, two of his Majties:
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Justices of the peace
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for the sd: County
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of
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Middlesex
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, and both residing within the
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Tower Division
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in the
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said County, have lately view'd and inspected the East End of an
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Street in the Hamlett of Bethnall Green in the Parish of St Dun
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Stepney als Stebunheath in the sd: Division & County; and upon
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our Said View & Inspection found that part of the East End of the
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Street directly leading into Sclater Street in the Said Hamlett, hath
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never been paved, the Dimentions of which are as follows (Vizt)
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in Length from Eighteen Inches within the Corner of a Yard and
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pump house in
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Anchor Street
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aforesaid now in the Occupacon or
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Tenure of Messrs:
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Ralph
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James Harwood
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of the Parish of
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Leonard Shoreditch
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in the sd. County
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Brewers
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& Copartners, unto the
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pavement in the sd:
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Sclater Street
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twenty three foot & six Inches, and in
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Breadth to the Middle or Channel of the sd: Anchor Street thirteen foot
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which in the whole makes, One Red three yards Six foot & thirty
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Six Inches Square, which, by reason of the great Decay thereof and
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want of good Order therein is almost unpassable to Passeng
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and We are Credibly Informed that diverce persons have lately
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fallen therein and been almost Imother'd with the Dirt and other
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filth thereof; And 'tis our opinion & we do Adjudge that the said
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place ought to be paved, to prevent the ill Consequences that may
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otherwise attend it, and that the said Messrs:
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James
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Harwood
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ought to pave the same by Order from this Court; All
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other parts of the said
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being allready
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paved. Given under our hands this
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fifteenth day of January
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Anno Dni 1722
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Isaac Tillard
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Sam Benson
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