4 foote taken
from 3 Shopps

and reforme all incroachments and purprestures on the High streete Specially between
the foote of London Bridge and the Compter Lane whereby the Markett is or shalbee
Straitened as they Should think fitt And the said Act doth alsoe provide that if
any Pson or Psons that Shalbee Ordered or adjudged to abate Rich incroachment
or purpresture Shall refuse or neglect to doe it by puch day or time as by the
order or decree of the said Court Should bee ordained Rich Pson or Psons should
bee Indicted for Rich their obstinance and contempt; That the said Court of
Indicature on the Seaventeenth day of October 1676 did ordaine adjudge
and decree That before the five and twentith day of December their next
following The said Henry Bartelott< no role > should abate and take away foure foote of
the Shopp of his house all along the Front there in the first Story
And that Mr. Pitman or his tenant should take away fower foote the whole
breadth of his said house in the first Story And that fower foote should bee taken
away from each of the said next three adjoyning Shopps, and fower foote and
nine inches from the said fowerth Shopp northward yet in Lease to Harrison,
And two foote Six inches from the said Woods Shopp

That the Tennants not obeying the said Oder or Decree they or their Tennants have
been all Indicted in the Sessions for this Burrough for their contempt, and have
been putt to great expences trouble and Vexacon from time to time for a considrable
time together in defending themselves from the penalties they are informed will
bee inflicted on them in case they doe not conforme to the said Orders, And for as
much as all this while noe expedient hath been nor in our oppinions can be found
out to present the Tennants being forthwith fined for the Said offences and the
renewall of those fines untill they reforme the said pretended incroachments
And they all affirme (and wee beleive it to be true) that the Said houses and Shopps
are not further incroached or Sett into the Streete then they were at the time they
tooke their Severall Leases and paid their respective Fines though the dimensions
referred to in their Leases may not exceed the old foundacons and therefore doe
expect and pray (as with submission wee think is reasonable) That either this Court
will at the charge of this house defend them against the said Indictments (if
it can be done) or els if they must loose soe considerable a part of that which
they tooke from this house; that this Court will Some way or other make them
assist and due compensation as upon consideracon of their respective cases
shalbee found fitt

Comittee opinion
about new
building

This matter having some often before us wee have had long and serious
deliberacons how and in what manner to give the tennats just satisfaccon
on the one hand and how to compensate the Losse the house shalbee at in Soe
doing on the other hand by an improvment at Lease in time to come of
the revenue of this hospitall by making such houses and buildigns in the
roomes of the said Shopps when the tennants interests are purchased in
whose Leases are not expired, and enlarging the said Bartelotts house out
of the said Gateway and being now by the said late order directed particulerly
to consider thereof Wee with regard to and in accomplishment of those
ends doe humbly offer oure oppinions as followeth

Bartlett

That the said Bartelotts house being now but nine foote bread may bee
enlarged by taking from the said gateway and adding to the said house
about three foote in the front and foure foote in the reare of the said
Gateway which addicon: will not come quite to the Northside of the Inner
gate , and thereby the Gateway wilbee Straight and direct which is be [..]
and awry and the prospect into the Hospitall on the first entrance wilbee
as large. and cleere as now it is and the Gateway Still bee about Eight
foote in breadth, and by this addiccon the said Tenement wilbee improved
and (by a due managment of the businesse with Bartelott) the cost of
adorning and rendering more conspicuous that Gateway (soe much
formerly desired) by this oppertunity may bee made very easie to this house
in an agreement with Bartelott for a new Lease

Pitman

That Mr. Pitmans incroachment being taken away in the Lower story he will
bee put to a considerable damage in secureing and altering his Front as well
as by diminishing his roomes and otherwise for wch- hee ought to receive
compensacon yet his house will remaine about Twenty foote in depth, but
neither his house nor Bartelotts can conveniently bee made deeper in
regard of our Porters Lodge and Pillars of the Hospitall which Stand just
behind it; And as to the said five other Shoppe which are only Shopps [..]
at most but one little roome over some of them Wee are of oppinion that
when that part is cutt from them as the said order doth appoynt as aforesaid
the remaining part wilbee too small to continue in shopps for any one of
them and some will not have a foote of Depth left; And therefore seeing
two of the Shopps are out of Lease and the Lease of another of the [..]