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