Report of the Committee
appointed to hand with
the Quakers for the
purchase of their
Ground}
The following Report from the Committee appointed
forto neat
with the People called Quakers for the purchase of the Ground and
Buildings situate in the Parish of Saint James Clerkenwell
near to
Clerkenwell
Bridewell
being laid before this Court and the same being
read as follows Vizt.
To His Majestys Justices of the Peace
for the County of
Middlesex
in their General Session of the Peace holden
for the said County in December 1783 assembled
The Report of the Committee appointed to
neat with the People called Quakers for the
purchase of the Ground and Buildings situate
in the Parish of Saint James Clerkenwell
near
to Clerkenwell
Bridewell
.
The said Committee Report that Messrs. Hagen Mildred Sterry
Chester
and Woods produced to them the following Paper Vizt.
At a Six Weeks Meeting held by Adjournment the 23d.
of the 9th Month 1783.
This Meeting having taken into consideration the
Resolutions of the Justices of Middlesex
respecting the purchase of the
School & Workhouse
at Clerkenwell
appoints the following friends or
any two of them to meet the Committee of Justices and complete the
Agreement on the Terms of our Proposal Vizt. Jacob Hagen< no role >
. Danl.
Mildred, Henry Sterry< no role >
, Richard Chester< no role >
, Joseph Woods< no role >
.
Whereupon it was proposed to Messrs. Hagen, Mildred,
Sterry, Chester
and Woods that the purchase Money should be paid by the following
Instalments Vizt. £400 on having possession of the Garden Ground
£400 more in Six Months after such possession and £800 the remainder
of the purchase Money on having possession of the remaining part of the
Premises; and the said Proposal being agreed to: An Agreement
between the Quakers and one Edward Hartwright< no role >
was produced by
which it appeared that he was intitled to a Years notice to quit the
Premises; and the said Edward Hartwright< no role >
attending Your Committee
and being asked upon what Terms he would sooner quit the said