until the said Robert Clemments< no role > became a Bankrupt from which time until the
Completion of the said Contract Your Petitioner executed and performed the same on his own
separate Account and as he believes to the Satisfaction of the said Magistrates of the said
County of Surry and of their Surveyor Mr. Gwilt.

That your Petitioner and the said Robert Clemments< no role > contracted for the during of the
said Masons work at a very low Price and according to the then price of labour and the
materials to be used there in but soon afterwards the present war with France broke out
which not only entrained the price of both but increased the Expence of Freightage of the
letter very considerably

That your Petitioner was not only subjected to such Lisses by the means aforesaid
but he was also put to very considerable Expences in the made of completing the said
Contract by the Directions of the said Surveyor but all of which your Petitioner patiently
submitted to in full Confidence that Satisfaction would be made him for the same when
the said Contract should be fully completed.

That soon after the Completion of the said Contract you Petitioner received the
Balance of his Accounts as stated and settled by the said Surveyor and there upon as
upon all other Occasions when he received Money on Account of the said Contract he
signed such Receipt for the same as the said Surveyor thought proper to prepare and
without signing of which he could not have received such Monies

That your Petitioner and the other Tradesman employed in the Building of the
said Goal finding themselves considerably injured applied to the said Magistrates of Surry
by Petition praying for redress in the premises and who from a Consciousness of the Justice
and propriety of such application referred it to the said Surveyor to enquire into and report
to them the Amount of the Losses of each Tradesman employed in the said Building and
who made such Inquiry and Report accordingly but which report so far as the same respected
your Petitioner and his losses was untrue and malicious as will appear from the most
respectable testimony and from the very Repeat itself.

That in Consequence of the said Report the Sum of one hundred Pounds only was
ordered to be paid to your Petitioner as a Compensation for his losses.

That your Petitioner conceiving himself to be aggrieved by the said Report applied
by Memorial to the said Magistrates for Surry and who were pleased to take the same into
their Consideration and on the Seventy fifth of April last at an Meeting held at Union
Hall Southwark to come to following Resolution and make the following Order that is to say

"Resolved that it is the opinion of this Committee that whatever less Mr Francis
"can prove that he has sustained on account of extra Freightage and which shall appear
"to the Committtee not to have been occasioned by his own neglect shall be made to him

"Ordered that Mr Gwelt be directed to prepare a Statement of the Extra Freightage [..]
"on the Carriage of Portland and other Stone which arose in Consequence of she was and the necessary
"Expences incurred-by Mr Francis in that account and that Mr Francis be also
directed to prepare a like Statement of such extra Freightage and Expences consequently thereof

That at a Meeting [..] of the said Magistrates held on the Twenty ninth of May
last Your Petitioner attended with a Statement of his said Sofres and Witnesses to prove
the same in pursuance of the said Resolution [..] and Order for that purpose But
notwithstanding your Petitioner was put to very considerable Expences with his said
witnesses the Magistrates present at such last mentioned Meeting refused to hear them of to