October 1794

Middlesex

At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Lord
the King holden in and for the County of Middlesex at
the Session House for the said County (by adjournment) on
Thursday the Thirtieth day of October in the Thirty fifth
year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King
of Great Britain Etc Before William Mainwaring< no role > Esquire
Robert Burd Gabriel< no role > , Henry Reynett< no role > , Herbert Mayo< no role >
Doctors in Divinity , William Bleamire< no role > , John Pownall< no role > ,
Thomas Wood< no role > Junr. John Floud< no role > , William Hyde< no role > , George
William Prescott< no role > , John Spranger< no role > , William Addington< no role > , Henry
James Pye< no role > , John Staples< no role > , Frederick Matthew< no role > , Rupert Clarke< no role >
John Robinson< no role > , John Collick< no role > , John Hole< no role > ,Thomas Vaughan< no role >
Jacob Leroux< no role > Nathaniel Conant< no role > John Warner< no role > , Nicholas
Bond< no role > , Edward Read< no role > , Hammond Crosse< no role > , Humphry Jackson< no role > ,
John Hatchet< no role > , William Coleman< no role > , George Mercer< no role > Junr William
Browne< no role > , Thomas Collins< no role > , Daniel Williams< no role > , Rice Davies< no role > Esqrs
Justices Etc.

James Clitherow< no role > Esqr . informed the Court that he waited upon
them upon the subject of Brentford Bridge and desired to lay before them a
copy of the Minutes of the General Committee of the Grand Junction Canal
Company which was read in the following Words Vizt.

Octr. 7th. 1794

At a Meeting of the Genl. Committee of the Grand Junction Canal
Company held at No. 6 Parliament Street this day.

It being deemed necessary by Mr Jessop to make some Alteration in
Brentford Bridge to render it commodious for the Navigation of the Grand
Junction Canal and it being the Opinion of many of the Neighbouring Intrants
that the said Alteration (such as they are informed) is intended Vizt. of raising
the middle Arch will be productive of very bad consequences by rendering the
Bridge (already one of the most dangerous for Passengers in the whole Western
Road) infinitely more so unless some Houses at the East end of the Bridge
are rendered inaccessible by raising the Road before their Doors: and it being