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In Obedience to the Order hereunto annexed We Whose Hands are hereunto set being a Committee appointed
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by the said Order did on Saturday the Twenty ninth of December last take a View that Part of the said Bridge called
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Chertsey Bridge
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which is in the
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And do Report that several Piles are broke and Splintered
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and beat out of their Trussel Heads and that the great And of the said Bridge which is on the
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Side is only
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supported by One Pile and that Part of the said Bridge is in very great Danger of falling down And if any Barge or
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Crass Should by wilfulness accident or otherwise run against the said Pile which now only Supports the said great
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Arch and should beat it down or out of itsTrussell Heads that great Part of the said Bridge for want of that
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little Support must inevitably full which would not only put a Total Stop and Obstruction
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all his Majesty's
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Leige Subjects from passing with their Coaches Carts Carriages and on Foot ever the said Bridge and Barges and
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Crasts under the said Bridge And also put the County to large Expence in rebuilding the same And your Committee not
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taking any Workmen with them but depended upon seeing One Mr. Brown Carpenter at
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rend not then
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have any Estimate or take any Account of what Repairs were wanting and necessary to be done therefore Your Comittee
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Adjourned over and met again on Friday the Fourth Day of this Instant January and directed Mr. Brown to taken
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View of the said Bridge and make an Estimate of who Repairs were wanting and necessary to be done with the
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Costs to repair the same And your Committee did meet according to appointment and Mr. Brown and his Father
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attended but had made no Estimate of the said Works And your Committee being of Opinion that a Stop Should be imediately
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made to prevent Barges and other Crafts from going through the said large such of the sd Bridge to prevent the Damage about menti-
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oned Therefore your Committee ordered Mr. Brown imediately to do the several Particular mentioned in the Paper
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hereunto annexed And likewise ordered the said large Arch to be Stopped upon both Sides on Friday the Eleventh Day
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of the same Month of January and ordered that publick Notice should be gives in the News Papers vizts. to be put Twice in
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the Daily Advertiser Twice in the
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Whitehall
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Evening Post & Twice in the London Evening Post & to Print 200 Notices
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and to send a person up the Rive Thames to disperse and stick the said Notices up at Towns Villages Bridges &
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Locks as for as the lock above
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Maidenhead
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for the better notification of the Same That as the Season of the Year will not Permit a
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thorough repair Your Committee will appoint another Time to receive an Estimate and give further Directions as
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the Court shall further Order & direct all which we humbly submit Etc Dated this
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7th. Day of January
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William Wilkers
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