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<p n="659"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middx ss</note>
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In pursuance of an order made att the genrall quarter Sessions of the peace held for this County by adjorment on<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50142_date117">Thursday the thirteenth day of January last</rs>
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whereby itt was referred to as whose names are hereunto<lb></lb>
Subscribed & other his Maties Justices of the peace of this County<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
there named or any there of as<lb></lb>
to inspect <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50142_geo526"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50142_geo527">the dwelling house of the Keeper of the house of Correccon</rs>
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att Clerkenwell</rs>
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in this<lb></lb>
County and to take to our assistance such workmen as wee should think fitt and to report to this<lb></lb>
Court whether in<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
our Opinion itt would be better<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
to repaire the said dwelling house or to<lb></lb>
pull downe & rebuild the same & what itt would cost in either case, and to be what other part of the<lb></lb>
said house of Correccon was out of repaire & wherein itt ought to be repaired</p>
<p n="660">Wee hereby certifie thet wee have viewd the said Dwelling house & doe find that the same contains<lb></lb>
Seventeen square of building & that the Roofe thereof are intirely decayed, that the principall<lb></lb>
gridlers are rotten three foot within the inside of the sd house and the floors are soe sunk out<lb></lb>
of square that wee suspect if the sd Floors are attempted to be repaired itt will be found they are<lb></lb>
intirely decayed and wee find that the foundacons of each front are very much decayed &<lb></lb>
bellyed out and that part of the wally are fallen downe and Floors which they Supported<lb></lb>
are Showd up and the prmiser are now laid open</p>
<p n="661">And wee are opinion that the repaire of the buildings to make them substantially habitable is<lb></lb>
impracticable att least without laying out more mony them will build new & susficient conveinenices<lb></lb>
to contain eleven square of building which is not quite two thires of what the prmise are<lb></lb>
now incumber with</p>
<p n="662">Wee have treated with workmen who will pull down the old prmiss & build eleven square of now work<lb></lb>
According to the modell herewith penced for about three hundred & triely pounds allowing them the<lb></lb>
old materialls</p>
<p n="663">Wee futher reliefie that there are eight Wares in the said prison which wee conceive ought to be now<lb></lb>
floored & will cost about sixteen pounds and that there remanies due to senall workmen for work<lb></lb>
formly done att the said prison the same of sevenly pounds or there about as appears by their <obscured></obscured>
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bills All which wee humbly Submitt to the Judgmt of this Honble Court Given Under Our hand<lb></lb>
this <rs type="date" id="LMSMPS50142_date118">17th day of February Anno Dui 1714</rs>
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<p n="664"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n664-1">John Offley</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50142_n664-2">John Milner</rs>
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