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the Worshipfull his Majesty's
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Justices of the Peace
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for the
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in Session assembled,
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The humble Petition of Several of the Inhabitants of the parishes of
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Isleworth
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Twickenham
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, and the parts adjacent, Subscribers towards the
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rebuilding a Bridge at
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, called the Rails Head Bridge.
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Sheweth
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That, on a Memorial being presented last year to your Worships by your Petition
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:ers, (which was taken into Consideration last December Sessions, and Counsel heard
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and Evidence given in support of it) your Worships were pleased to order, that the
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Sum of one hundred pounds should be paid out of the County Rate, in aid of the Subscription
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stated in the said Memorial to be, then raised, and raising for the purpose of rebuilding
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the said Bridge, provided the Subscribers would undertake to rebuild the same
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According to the Plan and Estimate annexed to the said Memorial, and that when
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the same should be so rebuilt, it should in future to deemed a County Bridge, agreable
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to a Determination of the Court of Kings Bench, on which the said Memorial was
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four did, which the Committee who attened the hearing, on behalf of themselves and
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the other Memorialists, Acceded to, and undertook to do the work on those terms, and
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have compleated the same accodingly, But that a doubt being suggested at
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the time of the said hearing, by one of the Magistrates, on eminert Architect,
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whether the Waterway Provided for by the Arches, Specified in the Plan annexed
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to the Memorial, would be quite sufficient, for the great weight of water that
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sometimes after violent rains must pass through the same, It was recommended
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by the Chairman, with the Approbation of the other magistrates present, to the said Committee
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and their Architect Mr Payne, to make particular enquiry into that matter, and, if
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necessary, by enlarging the Arches, to prevent (as for as possible) any danger in time
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of floods to the new intended Bridge, and Consequently any future Expence to the
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County.
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That in Obedience to such Recommend action they made very diligent enquiry, away
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the oldest Inhabitants and others, concerning the height and rapidity of the most violent
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floods rememberd there, and after such inquiry, thought it expedient at least, to
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alter the Plan, and by enlarging it, and making the arches both higher and wider,
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to provide more waterway, to prevent (as for as could be) any possibility of the new
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