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