Continued Friday 17th. Janry 1752

Bethlem (No. 19.18.17) Houses
& ground to be lett on buildings
Lease to be Advertized

Upon Reading a Report from the Comittee of this House dated
5th. Decr. 1751 under the hands of William Benn< no role > Esqr. Aldn. Presidt.
Robert Alsop< no role > Esqr. Aldr. Trear Mr. Deputy John Clarke< no role > and Mr. John Forty< no role > as follows Vizt.This Comee
Viewed 3 houses on the West side of Bishopsgate street & 4
houses from the Street down Old Bethlem (whereof 3 are Empty)
wch were held by Edwd Howard< no role > deced under a Lease from there
Govrs. of Bethlem Hospital (No. 19). & 2 houses Westward of the
last 4) wch he held under another Lease (No. 18) both wch Leases
Expired at Mich. 1750 & 2 other Houses (Westward of the last 2)
wch he held under another Lease (No. 17) wch Expired at Midsr.
lastAnd found the sd. Houses all in [..] Condition
not worth repairing & are of Opinion they ought to be pulled
down & New ones Erected & set back so for as will make the
Passage from Bishops gate Street to the end of the sd. Houses 20
feet wideWhich is Nevertheless Submitted to the Judgment
of the CourtThis Court haveing duly weighed and Considered
the sd. Report Doth Confirm the same And Order that it be publish
in some of the Daily papers That the said Houses and Ground are to be let
on a building Lease.

Engine Weavers for & complaint
agt. Dill to lye on ye. table}

At this Court the humble Petition of Thomas Kingsbury< no role > John Lettell< no role >
and 29th. other Master Weavers in the Engine branch where Names are thereto
Subscribed was readSetting forth That the Petrs. labour under Great
hardships in their branch of Trade from the Advantages the Artsmasters
enjoy from the Privilodges of this House and having their Work done chiefly
by Apprentices by which they are enabled to under sell the other
Manufacturers Which Consideration induced this Court to Order that no
more than two Engin Weavers should be in the House at one time The
Petrs. beg leave to inform the Court that they Apprehend this Order is
likely to be Evaded by a Person in the House who has Set on foot that
branch and already has Some Engin Looms at Work And the Petrs. Apprehend
is Petitioning for more Room in Order to bring them into the house
whereby he will much Prejudice the Petrs. by Employing his boys in
the sd. Article and which the Petrs. are informed he already does out
of doors that It is humbly hoped this Court will again take the premes
into Consideration (and prevent these hardships which must Attend
the Petrs. if any other person in the house is permitted to exercise
the same) And afford them such relief as the Court shall see fitAnd
the Petrs. being Asks what person in the House had set on foot the branch of
Engine Weaving some one Named William Dell< no role > who being Present Acquainted the
Court that his business of orrice Weaving has been at a Stand during the Several late
Publick Mourings & that he has 7 Apprentices besides [..] could not get up [..]
therein Sufficient for them to earn their bread and has 16 Persons in family and
therefore he had set up some Engine Looms in Black fryers and employed Journeyman
there which some of the Petrs. forced away from him the being free of the
Weavers Company He has as much right as they have to Exercise any branch of
the Weaveing Trade, but that he has no Engine Loom in this House nor employed
any of his Apprentices in that branch Except me who had formerly work in
an Engine Loom and whom he in the present Case of his Necessity had sent Several
days to Work in an Engine Loom in Black fryersIt is Ordered that the
said Petition do lye upon the Table.