Continued Thursday 28th: Novr: 1793

not offered by any of them their proposals were returned to them
by the Treasurer and the Committee Resolved to postpone letting
the above premises for the present and Mr. Lewis was desire
to prepare a plan for improving the same and report his
opinion as to the mode of letting them most beneficial to the
Hospital.

And that the Committee thad ordered the Clerk to write
to Mr. Thomas Gilbert< no role > one of the Tenants at Wapping to desire
him immediately to light and Cleanse the Passage leaving
from Wapping Street to King Edward Stairs agreeable to the
Covenants in his Lease.

And that the Committee had reced: two Letters from James
Couling< no role > the late Tenant to the Estate in Oxfordshire whereby
it appeared that he had remitted to the Steward of this
Hospital £120 part of his old arrears of Rent and the
Committee having taken into consideration the situation of
himself and family and his utter incapacity to pay the
remainder and it appearing that he had been a Tenant
upwards of 33 Years during which time he had considerably
improved the farm and had given it up to the present Te-
nant in a good condition.

The Committee had Resolved that the remainder of the
said arrears be remitted.

And it being stated on behalf of the Tenants of this
Hospital Inhabitants of Chatham place and new Bridge It:
that they were greatly annoyed by dust during the summer
months and that they found it impossible to procure a con-
stant and sufficient supply of water within a convenient
distance for the purpose of laying the dust and it being sug-
gested that a proper Reservoir for water might be easily
constructed upon the top of the Engine House belonging to this
Hospital which could be constantly filled from the Thames water