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<p n="372">In Obedience to the Order hereunto annexed We Whose Hands are hereunto set being a Committee appointed<lb></lb>
by the said Order did on Saturday the Twenty ninth of December last take a View that Part of the said Bridge called<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50408_geo308">Chertsey Bridge</rs>
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which is in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50408_geo309">County of Middlesex</rs>
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And do Report that several Piles are broke and Splintered<lb></lb>
and beat out of their Trussel Heads and that the great And of the said Bridge which is on the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50408_geo310">Middlesex</rs>
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Side is only<lb></lb>
supported by One Pile and that Part of the said Bridge is in very great Danger of falling down And if any Barge or<lb></lb>
Crass Should by wilfulness accident or otherwise run against the said Pile which now only Supports the said great<lb></lb>
Arch and should beat it down or out of itsTrussell Heads that great Part of the said Bridge for want of that<lb></lb>
little Support must inevitably full which would not only put a Total Stop and Obstruction<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
all his Majesty's<lb></lb>
Leige Subjects from passing with their Coaches Carts Carriages and on Foot ever the said Bridge and Barges and<lb></lb>
Crasts under the said Bridge And also put the County to large Expence in rebuilding the same And your Committee not<lb></lb>
taking any Workmen with them but depended upon seeing One Mr. Brown Carpenter at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50408_geo311">Chertsey</rs>
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rend not then<lb></lb>
have any Estimate or take any Account of what Repairs were wanting and necessary to be done therefore Your Comittee<lb></lb>
Adjourned over and met again on Friday the Fourth Day of this Instant January and directed Mr. Brown to taken<lb></lb>
View of the said Bridge and make an Estimate of who Repairs were wanting and necessary to be done with the<lb></lb>
Costs to repair the same And your Committee did meet according to appointment and Mr. Brown and his Father<lb></lb>
attended but had made no Estimate of the said Works And your Committee being of Opinion that a Stop Should be imediately<lb></lb>
made to prevent Barges and other Crafts from going through the said large such of the sd Bridge to prevent the Damage about menti-<lb></lb>
oned Therefore your Committee ordered Mr. Brown imediately to do the several Particular mentioned in the Paper<lb></lb>
hereunto annexed And likewise ordered the said large Arch to be Stopped upon both Sides on Friday the Eleventh Day<lb></lb>
of the same Month of January and ordered that publick Notice should be gives in the News Papers vizts. to be put Twice in<lb></lb>
the Daily Advertiser Twice in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50408_geo312">Whitehall</rs>
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Evening Post & Twice in the London Evening Post & to Print 200 Notices<lb></lb>
and to send a person up the Rive Thames to disperse and stick the said Notices up at Towns Villages Bridges &<lb></lb>
Locks as for as the lock above <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50408_geo313">Maidenhead</rs>
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for the better notification of the Same That as the Season of the Year will not Permit a<lb></lb>
thorough repair Your Committee will appoint another Time to receive an Estimate and give further Directions as<lb></lb>
the Court shall further Order & direct all which we humbly submit Etc Dated this <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50408_date65">7th. Day of January</rs>
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1750</p>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50408_n373-3">William Wilkers</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50408_n373-4">Boulton Mainwearing</rs>
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