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<p n="1384">the Worshipfull his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50828_occ273">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50828_geo739">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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in Session assembled,</p>
<p n="1385">The humble Petition of Several of the Inhabitants of the parishes of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50828_geo740">Isleworth</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50828_geo741">Twickenham</rs>
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, and the parts adjacent, Subscribers towards the<lb></lb>
rebuilding a Bridge at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50828_geo742">Isleworth</rs>
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, called the Rails Head Bridge.</p>
<p n="1386">Sheweth</p>
<p n="1387">That, on a Memorial being presented last year to your Worships by your Petition<lb></lb>
:ers, (which was taken into Consideration last December Sessions, and Counsel heard<lb></lb>
and Evidence given in support of it) your Worships were pleased to order, that the<lb></lb>
Sum of one hundred pounds should be paid out of the County Rate, in aid of the Subscription<lb></lb>
stated in the said Memorial to be, then raised, and raising for the purpose of rebuilding<lb></lb>
the said Bridge, provided the Subscribers would undertake to rebuild the same<lb></lb>
According to the Plan and Estimate annexed to the said Memorial, and that when<lb></lb>
the same should be so rebuilt, it should in future to deemed a County Bridge, agreable<lb></lb>
to a Determination of the Court of Kings Bench, on which the said Memorial was<lb></lb>
four did, which the Committee who attened the hearing, on behalf of themselves and<lb></lb>
the other Memorialists, Acceded to, and undertook to do the work on those terms, and<lb></lb>
have compleated the same accodingly, But that a doubt being suggested at<lb></lb>
the time of the said hearing, by one of the Magistrates, on eminert Architect,<lb></lb>
whether the Waterway Provided for by the Arches, Specified in the Plan annexed<lb></lb>
to the Memorial, would be quite sufficient, for the great weight of water that<lb></lb>
sometimes after violent rains must pass through the same, It was recommended<lb></lb>
by the Chairman, with the Approbation of the other magistrates present, to the said Committee<lb></lb>
and their Architect Mr Payne, to make particular enquiry into that matter, and, if<lb></lb>
necessary, by enlarging the Arches, to prevent (as for as possible) any danger in time<lb></lb>
of floods to the new intended Bridge, and Consequently any future Expence to the<lb></lb>
County.</p>
<p n="1388">That in Obedience to such Recommend action they made very diligent enquiry, away<lb></lb>
the oldest Inhabitants and others, concerning the height and rapidity of the most violent<lb></lb>
floods rememberd there, and after such inquiry, thought it expedient at least, to<lb></lb>
alter the Plan, and by enlarging it, and making the arches both higher and wider,<lb></lb>
to provide more waterway, to prevent (as for as could be) any possibility of the new</p>
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