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<p n="117"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">4 foote taken<lb></lb>
from 3 Shopps</note>
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and reforme all incroachments and purprestures on the High streete Specially between<lb></lb>
the foote of <rs type="placeName" id="LMTHMG55301_geo51">London</rs>
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Bridge and the Compter Lane whereby the Markett is or shalbee<lb></lb>
Straitened as they Should think fitt And the said Act doth alsoe provide that if<lb></lb>
any Pson or Psons that Shalbee Ordered or adjudged to abate Rich incroachment<lb></lb>
or purpresture Shall refuse or neglect to doe it by puch day or time as by the<lb></lb>
order or decree of the said Court Should bee ordained Rich Pson or Psons should<lb></lb>
bee Indicted for Rich their obstinance and contempt; That the said Court of<lb></lb>
Indicature on the Seaventeenth day of October 1676 did ordaine adjudge<lb></lb>
and decree That before the five and twentith day of December their next<lb></lb>
following The said <rs type="persName" id="LMTHMG55301_n117-1">Henry Bartelott</rs>
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should abate and take away foure foote of<lb></lb>
the Shopp of his house all along the Front there in the first Story<lb></lb>
And that Mr. Pitman or his tenant should take away fower foote the whole<lb></lb>
breadth of his said house in the first Story And that fower foote should bee taken<lb></lb>
away from each of the said next three adjoyning Shopps, and fower foote and<lb></lb>
nine inches from the said fowerth Shopp northward yet in Lease to Harrison,<lb></lb>
And two foote Six inches from the said Woods Shopp</p>
<p n="118">That the Tennants not obeying the said Oder or Decree they or their Tennants have<lb></lb>
been all Indicted in the Sessions for this Burrough for their contempt, and have<lb></lb>
been putt to great expences trouble and Vexacon from time to time for a considrable<lb></lb>
time together in defending themselves from the penalties they are informed will<lb></lb>
bee inflicted on them in case they doe not conforme to the said Orders, And for as<lb></lb>
much as all this while noe expedient hath been nor in our oppinions can be found<lb></lb>
out to present the Tennants being forthwith fined for the Said offences and the<lb></lb>
renewall of those fines untill they reforme the said pretended incroachments<lb></lb>
And they all affirme (and wee beleive it to be true) that the Said houses and Shopps<lb></lb>
are not further incroached or Sett into the Streete then they were at the time they<lb></lb>
tooke their Severall Leases and paid their respective Fines though the dimensions<lb></lb>
referred to in their Leases may not exceed the old foundacons and therefore doe<lb></lb>
expect and pray (as with submission wee think is reasonable) That either this Court<lb></lb>
will at the charge of this house defend them against the said Indictments (if<lb></lb>
it can be done) or els if they must loose soe considerable a part of that which<lb></lb>
they tooke from this house; that this Court will Some way or other make them<lb></lb>
assist and due compensation as upon consideracon of their respective cases<lb></lb>
shalbee found fitt</p>
<p n="119"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Comittee opinion<lb></lb>
about new<lb></lb>
building</note>
<lb></lb>
This matter having some often before us wee have had long and serious<lb></lb>
deliberacons how and in what manner to give the tennats just satisfaccon<lb></lb>
on the one hand and how to compensate the Losse the house shalbee at in Soe<lb></lb>
doing on the other hand by an improvment at Lease in time to come of<lb></lb>
the revenue of this hospitall by making such houses and buildigns in the<lb></lb>
roomes of the said Shopps when the tennants interests are purchased in<lb></lb>
whose Leases are not expired, and enlarging the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMTHMG55301_geo52">Bartelotts house</rs>
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out<lb></lb>
of the said Gateway and being now by the said late order directed particulerly<lb></lb>
to consider thereof Wee with regard to and in accomplishment of those<lb></lb>
ends doe humbly offer oure oppinions as followeth</p>
<p n="120"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Bartlett</note>
<lb></lb>
That the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMTHMG55301_geo53">Bartelotts house</rs>
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being now but nine foote bread may bee<lb></lb>
enlarged by taking from the said gateway and adding to the said house<lb></lb>
about three foote in the front and foure foote in the reare of the said<lb></lb>
Gateway which addicon: will not come quite to the Northside of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMTHMG55301_geo54">Inner<lb></lb>
gate</rs>
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, and thereby the Gateway wilbee Straight and direct which is be<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
and awry and the prospect into the Hospitall on the first entrance wilbee<lb></lb>
as large. and cleere as now it is and the Gateway Still bee about Eight<lb></lb>
foote in breadth, and by this addiccon the said Tenement wilbee improved<lb></lb>
and (by a due managment of the businesse with Bartelott) the cost of<lb></lb>
adorning and rendering more conspicuous that Gateway (soe much<lb></lb>
formerly desired) by this oppertunity may bee made very easie to this house<lb></lb>
in an agreement with Bartelott for a new Lease</p>
<p n="121"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Pitman</note>
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That Mr. Pitmans incroachment being taken away in the Lower story he will<lb></lb>
bee put to a considerable damage in secureing and altering his Front as well<lb></lb>
as by diminishing his roomes and otherwise for wch- hee ought to receive<lb></lb>
compensacon yet his house will remaine about Twenty foote in depth, but<lb></lb>
neither his house nor Bartelotts can conveniently bee made deeper in<lb></lb>
regard of our Porters Lodge and Pillars of the Hospitall which Stand just<lb></lb>
behind it; And as to the said five other Shoppe which are only Shopps <obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
at most but one little roome over some of them Wee are of oppinion that<lb></lb>
when that part is cutt from them as the said order doth appoynt as aforesaid<lb></lb>
the remaining part wilbee too small to continue in shopps for any one of<lb></lb>
them and some will not have a foote of Depth left; And therefore seeing<lb></lb>
two of the Shopps are out of Lease and the Lease of another of the<obscured></obscured>
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