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Att a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Parish of St
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Buttolph without Aldgate summond and held by the said
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Parish in there Vestry Room ye
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10 Day of October 1711
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The Minister and Churchwardens reported to the Vestry that
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they had recd a Message in Writing from the Commissr. appointed
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by Act of Parliment for the Building 50 new Churches to give
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them an account of the Number and Condicon of the Inhabitants
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and what new Church or Churches were Nessesary to be Built and for
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the propper places or Scites to Build the same upon and alsoe for Church
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Yards and houses for the Minister of such Churches to Inhabitt in
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Whereupon the Question was put wheather the Inhabitants of
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the freedom part and Vestry would consent that the Inhabitants
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of East Smithfield being the Lower part of the Parish should Provide
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themselves ground to Build pursuant to the said Act a Church
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upon such place as they shall think propper and It was carried
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in the affirmative
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Another Question was put wheather
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the Inhabitants of the Lower part would Consent that the
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Inhabitants of the freedom part if they think fitt should Provide
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themselves ground in the freedom to Build a Church upon
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Pursuant to the said Act on such places as they should find,
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Propper and it was carried in the affirmative Provided the
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Commissr. appointed by the Act Doe Consent and agree
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for the Building of two Churches
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It was Voted and Agreed by the said Vestry that there is
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no Chappels in the sd. Parish fitt to be made a Church off
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