Height of Six feet and Six Inches or there abouts And that under pretence of putting in
Execution the said Act and under a pretence That Two thirds of the Householders and
Landlords or Owners of Houses and Tenements in the said Lane called Old Gravel Lane in
the Parishes of Saint John Wapping and Saint George in the said County of Middlesex had
applied by Petition to them or Nine or more of them to have the said Lane Paved and Cleared of
Encroachments Nuisances Obstructions and Annoyances The Commissioners appointed to
put the said Actin Execution Did on or about the the first Day of May
now last past begin by their Surveyors, Servants, Workmen or other Persons employed by them
in that behalf to Pave the said Lane, And on or about the Twenty fourth Day of June
now last Past finished the same And although the Situation of the said Lane and the Level
thereof were such as the said Commissioners their Surveyors Servants Workmen and other
Persons employed by them might and ought to have paved the said Lane without Raising the
Ground or Soil of the said Lane to any Considerable or Immoderate height before the Houses
of the said Lane Yet the said Commissioners by their Surveyors Servants Workmen and others
employed by them in Paving the said Lane in a very licentious injurious Irregular and
Unwarrantable manner Did raise the Ground and Soil of a great part of the said Lane and
particularly the Ground and Soil of the said Lane opposite to and before and against the said
Six Several Messuages Tenements or Dwelling Houses Situate and being on the East side of
the said Lane so belonging to your Petitioner and adjourning to each other Five of which said
Houses at the [..] of Giving notice of this Appeal were Severally and respectively Inhabited
and Occupied by the said William Tucker< no role > , John Duncan< no role > Alexander Greive< no role > James Smith< no role >
and John Beeswank< no role > the other of the said Houses was lately Inhabited and Occupied by
the said William Sparks< no role > (that is to Say) Tha said Ground and Soil of the said Lane opposite
to before and against the said House Inhabited and Occupied by the [..] William Tucker< no role >
has been [..] Two feet and Five Inches and upwards higher than [..] was before the
Raising [..] And the Ground and Soil of the said Lane Opposite to [..] against the said
Five [..] has been further gradually raised Insomuch [..] and soil
[..] to before and against the said House [..] by the
[..] has been said [..] upwards [..] was before
[..] of whereby the Entrance [..] said Mess [..] or Dwelling
House [..] ally and Unjustifiably Stopped up and Ob [..] Respective
Tenants [..] of the said Several Messuages Tenements [..] Houses or any
other [..] Persons cannot enter the Same at by or through the Out [..] Front or Street Door
thereof respectively And your Petitioner said Six Several Messuages Tenements or Dwelling
Houses [..] by Rendered of little or no Value And Although your Petitioner by
herself a [..] previous to the Paving and Raising of the Ground and Soil of the said
Lane [..] Petitioners said Premises Did frequently make Application to the said
Commissioners and Complain and Represent to them at their general meetings and to
their Age [..] Servants and Workmen which the Same Lane was Paving the great Damage and
Nuisa [..] your Petitioner and her Tenants could Sustain by Raising of the Ground Soil and
Pavement [..] fore your Petitioners said Houses Yet the said Commissioners their Agents
Servant and Workmen or any of them did not Shew any regarder or attention to your Petitioner
Said Complaint But have finished their [..] Pavement in the manner before mentioned And
the Soil Ground and Pavement before [..] said Petitioners said Six Several Messuages
Tenements or Dwelling Houses and [..] Still Remains So raised as aforesaid To the great
Injury and Damage as well to your Petitioner as also to Such of the respective Tenants and
Occupiers of the Same Premises [..] therein, The said William Sparks< no role > before the
said Notice of this Appeal, And the said [..] Smith since that Time having left the said
Premises in their respective Occupations [..] of the Obstructions aforesaid, And the rest of
your Petitioners said Tenants Daily [..] to leave and quit their respective Dwelling
Houses for the Same Reason.

Your Petitioner therefore begs leave to appeal and dose hereby Appeal
to your Worships now Assembled in General Quarter Sessions of the
Peace now holden in [..] for the said County of Middlesex against the
said Proceedings [..] Raising of the said Ground and Soil of the
Said Lane before [..] Petitioners said Houses And humbly prays
That your Worship [..] be pleased to Order That the said Pavement
Ground