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Thomas Marflet
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Pater Noster Row in the Same Parish Butcher and of
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Benjamin Hill
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Tallow Chandler
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Sheweth.
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That by an Act of Parliament made and Passed in the fourteenth
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Year of the Reign of his Present Majesty King George the third Intilled An Act for the
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further and better Regulation of Buildings and Party Walls And for the more
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"Effectually Preventing Mischiefs by Fire within the Cities of
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London
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"in such Act mentioned It is (amongst other things) Enacted That if should be
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Lawfull for the
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in their General
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Sessions And they are thereby Required within their respective Jurisdictions to Na
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And Appoint Such and so many dis
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Persons Skilled in the art of Building a
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said Justices in their respective Quarter Sessions should think fit to be during the
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will and Pleasure the Surveyors or Supervisors to See the Rules and Regulation in the
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said Act mentioned well and truly Observed.
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That on the Twenty Second of July One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy
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four
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William Stokes
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in the County aforesaid was
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Appointed Surveyor or Supervisor under the said Act by you Worships for the
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to See the Rules and Regulation ins
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Ad well and truly Observed.
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That your Petitioners humbly Apprehend that there are in andly th
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said Act but two Cases in which the Surveyors or Supervisors under the said
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are directed to be Called in to see the Rules and Regulation in the said Act tru
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Observed which is in Case of any Workman or other Person begining any Building
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any wall on New or old Foundations or on Foundations Partly New and Partly old
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or make any Addition thereto And in Case any Person shall but into any Party
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Thomas Bawdwen
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having Occasion to take de
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a small Forge which was fixed in a
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for the Conserved
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of a Tenant Your Petitioner did take down the same And Cause the Jambs of the
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