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In Considn. of his paying down Seventy five pounds as a Fine
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and now building three Substantiall brick houses according to the
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Second rate for Building of Houses in
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in the Roome of ye
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said Three old houses within ye first five yeares of the said Terme.
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John Poulter
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Grant
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Wee have Agreed with Mr:
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John Powlter
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to Grant him a Lease
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of a House and Ground in the Tents in the Parish of
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St: Thomas
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in Southwarke
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late belonging to Mrs: Sell for one and fifty years
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from Lady 1710 In Consideracon of his laying out One Hundred
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pounds at the Least in new building of Two or more brick
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houses on the said Ground within the First Two years after ye
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Comencemt: of the said Terme He submitting to Mr: Trears
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Determinacon how the Fronts of the said Houses shall be
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placed & Bow the water shall be Carried from the Houses there
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adjoyning belonging to Mr: Hambly.
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Lands at
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Alvethley
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Viewed
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& Mr Collyer
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Case Considered.
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& Reported
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Pursuant to the direccons of the said Generall Court of ye
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fifteenth day of December 1708 Wee have Caused a view to be made
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of the Lands belonging to this Hospitall at
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Alvethley
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in
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Essex
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held
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by Lease by Mr:
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Henry Collyer
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and have Considered of the Allegations
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of his peticon prsented to that Court which was then referred to
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our Exaiacon and do humbly Report what we have observed on ye
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said view within Opinions upon his peticon & Case as followeth
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vizt:
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Wee find that ye said
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Henry Collyer
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in the Year 1703 made an Inset
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or new wall to the Hospitall Marsh Ground in
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Alvethley
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near
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Purfleet
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point without any notice Given to the Governors of this Hospitall
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and having left about Ten or Twelve Acres of the Marsh Ground
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between this New wall and the old wall net the Thames, which he
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intended for a Foreland to ye new wall He Suffered the old wall to
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wash away and the same is now almost wholly destroyed so that ye
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water every Tide doth overflow the remaines of the said old wall and
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also the said Ten or Twelve acres of Marsh ground and hath done so
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for Two or Three years past
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But the Foot or Foundacon of the said old wall being Strengthned
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by Severall rows or Teeres of Pyles & Chalke doth as yet Secure & ptect
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the said Ten or Twelve Acres of Marsh Ground so left between the said
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walls from the force of the River and we observe that a Great
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Quantity of Slid hath Lodged and Setled on the said Marsh Ground
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between the said walls and are of opinion that the same will still
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increase and that the said Ten or Twelve Acres of Marsh Ground
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may in Time become a Good Foreland to the said new wall in Cass
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the Foundacon of the said old wall be prserved But we are of
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Opinion that if the Foundacon of the said old wall should be Slighted
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and not kept in such repaire for some years to come as may be
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sufficient to prserve the said intended Fore land and the Slud lodgeing
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thereupon from being washed away by he Streame the said now
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wall may be greatly endangered.
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Wee have Considered the Severall Allegacons in the said Mr: Collyers
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peticon and the Pticulars of his Charges and Disbursements
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annexed thereunto
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