[..] Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty That by Indenture of Lease bearing date the
fifthfirst day of January in the year four Lord Thousand Seven Hundred and Eightythreetwo and
made between the present Earl of Salisbury of the one part and the said David Barclay< no role > and
several other persons therein mentioned of the other part the said present Earl did demise unto the
said David Barclay< no role > the said Meeting house in the said Rate mentioned and three Dwelling houses
thereunto adjoining situate in Saint Martins Lane for the term of One hundred and two Years
and one quarter from the twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Eighty That by a Deed Poll dated thethirteenthTwentieth day of May in the year of our
Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty four the Lessees in the said Lease have declared
themselves merely Trustees of the said premises nominated as such by a Meeting called the Six
Weeks Meeting from its being a Meeting held every Six Weeks and which is composed of a Number
of Persons chosen by the Six Several Meetings before mentioned for the purpose of directing the
application of the Fund raised as before stated for the payment of the Rent Building and repairing
of Meeting houses That by Indenture of Assignment of the Second day of April in the Year of
our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Seven and made between the said David
[..] others of the one [..] and Daniel Mildred< no role > and others of the other part of the [..]
David Barclay< no role > and the said other persons therein first mentioned did assign over the above
mentioned premises unto the said Daniel Mildred< no role > and the several other persons therein secondly
mentioned in Trust and for the benefit of the Society of Friends commonly called Quakers in
London (comprizing Westminster ) and to be conveyed and disposed of as the said Society
should direct by such Six Weeks Meeting That the Basement Story of the said Meeting house in the
said Rate mentioned is divided into a Number of Small Rooms one of which is occupied by a Person
called a Door keeper whose Business is to attend the Door when necessary and keep the said
Meeting house clean for which service [..] he has a Small Yearly Salary
That the remaining Apartments are either not occupied or appropriated to the use of Poor
Persons maintained by the Donations of the People called Quakers That the said Meeting
house is solely appropriated to Religious and Charitable Purposes That the Trustees who are the persons Rate do not
receive any Rent for the same on the Contrary are subscribers to the Fund for Charitable Donations That none of
the Benches in the said Meeting house are lett or any pecuniary or other Advantage made thereof That the
Appellants were subscribers to and frequenters of the Meeting held in the said Meeting house and Warrant
of Distress issued against them for payment of the above Rate.

John Silvester< no role >
W. Garrow