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<p n="1344">until the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50964_n1344-1">Robert Clemments</rs>
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became a <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50964_occ291">Bankrupt</rs>
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from which time until the<lb></lb>
Completion of the said Contract Your Petitioner executed and performed the same on his own<lb></lb>
separate Account and as he believes to the Satisfaction of the said Magistrates of the said<lb></lb>
County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50964_geo567">Surry</rs>
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and of their Surveyor Mr. Gwilt.</p>
<p n="1345">That your Petitioner and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50964_n1345-1">Robert Clemments</rs>
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contracted for the during of the<lb></lb>
said Masons work at a very low Price and according to the then price of labour and the<lb></lb>
materials to be used there in but soon afterwards the present war with France broke out<lb></lb>
which not only entrained the price of both but increased the Expence of Freightage of the<lb></lb>
letter very considerably</p>
<p n="1346">That your Petitioner was not only subjected to such Lisses by the means aforesaid<lb></lb>
but he was also put to very considerable Expences in the made of completing the said<lb></lb>
Contract by the Directions of the said Surveyor but all of which your Petitioner patiently<lb></lb>
submitted to in full Confidence that Satisfaction would be made him for the same when<lb></lb>
the said Contract should be fully completed.</p>
<p n="1347">That soon after the Completion of the said Contract you Petitioner received the<lb></lb>
Balance of his Accounts as stated and settled by the said Surveyor and there upon as<lb></lb>
upon all other Occasions when he received Money on Account of the said Contract he<lb></lb>
signed such Receipt for the same as the said Surveyor thought proper to prepare and<lb></lb>
without signing of which he could not have received such Monies</p>
<p n="1348">That your Petitioner and the other Tradesman employed in the Building of the<lb></lb>
said Goal finding themselves considerably injured applied to the said Magistrates of Surry<lb></lb>
by Petition praying for redress in the premises and who from a Consciousness of the Justice<lb></lb>
and propriety of such application referred it to the said Surveyor to enquire into and report<lb></lb>
to them the Amount of the Losses of each Tradesman employed in the said Building and<lb></lb>
who made such Inquiry and Report accordingly but which report so far as the same respected<lb></lb>
your Petitioner and his losses was untrue and malicious as will appear from the most<lb></lb>
respectable testimony and from the very Repeat itself.</p>
<p n="1349">That in Consequence of the said Report the Sum of one hundred Pounds only was<lb></lb>
ordered to be paid to your Petitioner as a Compensation for his losses.</p>
<p n="1350">That your Petitioner conceiving himself to be aggrieved by the said Report applied<lb></lb>
by Memorial to the said Magistrates for Surry and who were pleased to take the same into<lb></lb>
their Consideration and on the Seventy fifth of April last at an Meeting held at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50964_geo568">Union<lb></lb>
Hall Southwark</rs>
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to come to following Resolution and make the following Order that is to say</p>
<p n="1351">"Resolved that it is the opinion of this Committee that whatever less Mr Francis<lb></lb>
"can prove that he has sustained on account of extra Freightage and which shall appear<lb></lb>
"to the Committtee not to have been occasioned by his own neglect shall be made to him</p>
<p n="1352">"Ordered that Mr Gwelt be directed to prepare a Statement of the Extra Freightage<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
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"on the Carriage of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50964_geo569">Portland</rs>
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and other Stone which arose in Consequence of she was and the necessary<lb></lb>
"Expences incurred-by Mr Francis in that account and that Mr Francis be also <lb></lb>
directed to prepare a like Statement of such extra Freightage and Expences consequently thereof</p>
<p n="1353">That at a Meeting<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
of the said Magistrates held on the Twenty ninth of May<lb></lb>
last Your Petitioner attended with a Statement of his said Sofres and Witnesses to prove<lb></lb>
the same in pursuance of the said Resolution<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
and Order for that purpose But<lb></lb>
notwithstanding your Petitioner was put to very considerable Expences with his said<lb></lb>
witnesses the Magistrates present at such last mentioned Meeting refused to hear them of to</p>
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