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<p n="1056"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sr: <rs type="persName" id="LMTHMG55301_n1056-1">Robet Clayton</rs>
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's<lb></lb>
Statue</note>
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In pursuance of an Order at the last Court in relacon to the Erecting<lb></lb>
the Statue of the Rt. Woppll: Sr: <rs type="persName" id="LMTHMG55301_n1056-2">Robert Clayton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMTHMG55301_occ728">Knight</rs>
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& <rs type="occupation" id="LMTHMG55301_occ729">Aldrman</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMTHMG55301_occ730">President</rs>
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of this Hospitall Wee have consulted with several Artists<lb></lb>
and heard and considered their proposalls And thereupon wee are of<lb></lb>
Opinion That the said Statue shall be cutt in Marble and placed<lb></lb>
in the Middle of the lower Quadrangle of this Hospitall upon a<lb></lb>
Marble Pedestall And wee have agreed with Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMTHMG55301_n1056-4">Grinling Gibbon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
to cutt the said Statue in the best Marble and to fix and set up the<lb></lb>
same upon a Pedestall of the same sort of Marble by Christmas next<lb></lb>
in such manner as is more particulerly expressed n an Agreement<lb></lb>
for this purpose under the Hand and seale of the said Mr: Gibbon.</p>
<p n="1057"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Wards on the South<lb></lb>
side of the Hospitall<lb></lb>
finished</note>
<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">North side of the<lb></lb>
first Court in ye Hospital<lb></lb>
find down.</note>
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<p n="1058">And inpursuance of an other Order made at the last<lb></lb>
Court Wee have finished the New Wards on the South side of the<lb></lb>
first Court of this Hospitall next the Burrough and Furnished<lb></lb>
the same with new Bedds and have placed Woemen in the said<lb></lb>
Wards And wee have caused the old Foule Wards on the Northside<lb></lb>
of the said first Court to be pulled downe and have disposed of all<lb></lb>
the old Wenterialls to Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMTHMG55301_n1058-1">Christopher Johns</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMTHMG55301_occ731">Bricklayer</rs>
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(excepting<lb></lb>
the Lead Iron and Glass and the Brickwall on the Northside of the<lb></lb>
said Mards which wee have reserved for the use of the Hospitall And<lb></lb>
in Consideracon of the old Materialls the said Mr: Johns is to pay<lb></lb>
the Hospitall Thirty Five pounds and to be at the Charge of pulling<lb></lb>
downe the said Wards.</p>
<p n="1059"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <obscured></obscured>
to be Roofed</note>
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<note type="authorial" place="margin">The Building over ye<lb></lb>
Surgeons Roome to<lb></lb>
be Carried to the<lb></lb>
Church Wall</note>
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<p n="1060">And Wee alsoe certifye that wee have carried up all<lb></lb>
the Walls of the New parish Church of <rs type="placeName" id="LMTHMG55301_geo375">St. Thomas</rs>
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and have agreed<lb></lb>
with <rs type="persName" id="LMTHMG55301_n1060-1">Robert Calcutt</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMTHMG55301_occ732">Carpenter</rs>
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for the Roofing of the said Church<lb></lb>
He is to doe all manner of Carpenters worke and to provide<lb></lb>
Scaffolding and to let the same stand after he has done for the use<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMTHMG55301_occ733">Plaisterer</rs>
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In consideracon whereof wee are to allow him<lb></lb>
Threee Hundred and Fifty pounds He is now Raiseing the said<lb></lb>
Roofe and is forthwith to finish and Cover in the same And for<lb></lb>
the better support of the Callery and the Northwall of the said<lb></lb>
Church wee have thought it necessary to Order a Stone Pillar to be sett<lb></lb>
up under the Brest Sumer at the West End of the Piazze under the<lb></lb>
said Gallery And wee alsoe thought it necessary And have accordingly<lb></lb>
Ordered that the Building over the Surgeons Roome be carried<lb></lb>
home to the Churchwall from the first story to the Topp of the<lb></lb>
said Building.</p>
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