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<p n="1939">October 1786</p>
<p n="1940">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="1941">The Chairman Stated to the Court that the application from the Body of<lb></lb>
People called Quakers for liberty to continue the Possession of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1251">Workhouse</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
their Aged Poor and for payment of the Money due to them on Account of the<lb></lb>
Messuages and Ground purchased from them adjoining to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1252">House of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1253">Clerkenwell</rs>
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had not been taken into Consideration on the Adjournment day of<lb></lb>
the last Session for want of a sufficient number of Magistrates being present<lb></lb>
to proceed on that Business - Ordered that the further Sum of £600 be<lb></lb>
paid to the said Body of People called Quakers in part of the Purchase Money<lb></lb>
and that the Clerk of the Peace do issue an Order upon the Treasurer of this<lb></lb>
County for the payment thereof accordingly; and that this matter be taken<lb></lb>
into further Consideration on the County day of the next Session</p>
<p n="1942">The Chairman also stated to the Court that he had seen Mr.<lb></lb>
Bentley the Attorney for the Parties interested in Baines Moiety of the Lands Etc<lb></lb>
intended to be purchased in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1254">Cold Bath Fields</rs>
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, who objected to the Price Settled by<lb></lb>
the Surveyors appointed to Value the same as too small at this Time on Account<lb></lb>
of the difference in the Value of Stock at the time of the Valuation and the present<lb></lb>
time and that his Clients expected some little Advance on their share on that<lb></lb>
account. And that he had likewise seen Mr. Tilbury the Agent for <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55609_n1942-1">Jervoise<lb></lb>
Clerk Jervoise</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55609_occ629">Esqr</rs>
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. who informed him that Rather than retard the Purchase<lb></lb>
Mr. Jervoise would not insist on a higher Price for his Share of the Estate than<lb></lb>
that fixt by the Surveyors if the Magistrates should think proper to make a<lb></lb>
small addition to the Sum fixt as the Value of the Share belonging to Baines's<lb></lb>
Representatives - Resolved that Mr. Chairman be desired to see Mr.<lb></lb>
Bentley and to settle with him this matter before the County day of the next<lb></lb>
Session and to take such other Steps as he may think necessary in order to have<lb></lb>
the Purchase completed</p>
<p n="1943">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="1944">Resolved that the Sum of £30,000 be raised by Tontine at £4<lb></lb>
P Cent for purchasing Ground for Building the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1255">House of Correction</rs>
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and other<lb></lb>
purposes mentioned in the Act of Parliament of the 26th. of his present Majesty<lb></lb>
Entitled "An Act to enable the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55609_occ630">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo1256">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
"to raise Money in manner therein mentioned for erecting a House of Correction<lb></lb>
"within the said County" and that a Committee be appointed to carry this</p>
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