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Continued Thursday
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28th: Novr: 1793
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not offered by any of them their proposals were returned to them
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by the Treasurer and the Committee Resolved to postpone letting
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the above premises for the present and Mr. Lewis was desire
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to prepare a plan for improving the same and report his
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opinion as to the mode of letting them most beneficial to the
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Hospital.
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And that the Committee thad ordered the Clerk to write
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to Mr.
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Thomas Gilbert
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one of the
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to desire
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him immediately to light and Cleanse the Passage leaving
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King Edward Stairs
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agreeable to the
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Covenants in his Lease.
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And that the Committee had reced: two Letters from
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James
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the
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late Tenant
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to the Estate in
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whereby
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it appeared that he had remitted to the Steward of this
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Hospital £120 part of his old arrears of Rent and the
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Committee having taken into consideration the situation of
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himself and family and his utter incapacity to pay the
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remainder and it appearing that he had been a Tenant
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upwards of 33 Years during which time he had considerably
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improved the farm and had given it up to the present Te-
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nant in a good condition.
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The Committee had Resolved that the remainder of the
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said arrears be remitted.
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And it being stated on behalf of the Tenants of this
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Hospital Inhabitants of Chatham place and new Bridge It:
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that they were greatly annoyed by dust during the summer
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months and that they found it impossible to procure a con-
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stant and sufficient supply of water within a convenient
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distance for the purpose of laying the dust and it being sug-
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gested that a proper Reservoir for water might be easily
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constructed upon the top of the Engine House belonging to this
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Hospital which could be constantly filled from the Thames water
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