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<p n="1542">Mr Stirling having informed the Court That Several<lb></lb>
Gentlemen Inhabitants of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo742">Finchley</rs>
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do attended the<lb></lb>
Court relation to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo743">the Bridge</rs>
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in the sd <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo744">parish of<lb></lb>
Finchley</rs>
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called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo745">Aislebies Bridge</rs>
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which had been<lb></lb>
presented by the Grand Jury as a County Bridge<lb></lb>
ruinous and in great decay and the said Inhabitants<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo746">parish of Finchley</rs>
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being desirous that their<lb></lb>
Evidence in support of the several Facts charged<lb></lb>
in the Indictmt should be laid before the Court<lb></lb>
for their Consideration in order amicably to adjust<lb></lb>
& settle the Matter complained of without the<lb></lb>
Expence of a Litigation and the Court being<lb></lb>
also desirous of fully inquiring in to<obscured></obscured>
of considering<lb></lb>
this Subject</p>
<p n="1543">Mr Wilson was called in who declared That be resided in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo747">parish of Finchley</rs>
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both before & since the<lb></lb>
erecting <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50879_geo748">the Bridge</rs>
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in Question That the sd<lb></lb>
Bridge was opened in the Month of December</p>
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