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<p n="162">Thus att last after many meetings Wee have in the discharge of the Trust<lb></lb>
comitted to us according to the best of our understandings soe farr as in us<lb></lb>
lyeth proceeded towards the concluding of this difficult and intricate affaire<lb></lb>
And have acted therein with the greatest sincerity for the good of the<lb></lb>
Hospitall pursuant to the direccons of this Court And though wee<lb></lb>
humbly conceive that the Reasons suggested in the said former Report<lb></lb>
and the contracts aforesaid will sufficiently justified our proceedings<lb></lb>
Het because the busines hath bin soe long depending and is under soe<lb></lb>
much observacon wee humbly offer a few distict reasons (though they are<lb></lb>
in substance contained in the former and this Reporte) for what wee have<lb></lb>
herein done which in our judgments render the thing for the Honour proffitt<lb></lb>
and saftey of this Hospitall</p>
<p n="163">Wee were obliged to give the Tennants sattisfaccon for the losse they had by<lb></lb>
the demolition; and they would not accept any in monie rules it were most<lb></lb>
Unreasonable Ray none would make any demands for a surrender of their<lb></lb>
interests but prayed addicon of ground to build and alledged their Trades<lb></lb>
were their setled and it would bee ruinous to remove them</p>
<p n="164">Here is Tower Hundred and five pounds raised by fines which is wee<lb></lb>
beleive well nigh as much as hath bin paid for renewing the Leases of<lb></lb>
these houses and shopps in Forty yeares past and its most certaine if wee<lb></lb>
add the value of the rent increased being £vij:iijs:iiijd it will amount to<lb></lb>
equall those old Fines not to mencon that some of these old Leases had<lb></lb>
above Twenty yeares some Fifteene and others Nine yeares to run out</p>
<p n="165">The walls betweene the old buildings and the Hospitall were ready to<lb></lb>
fall and a great parte was only separated with boards And now the<lb></lb>
Hospitall wilbee secured with a substantiall brick Wall; on that side<lb></lb>
aswell as it is on the other side of the gate And wee cannot but<lb></lb>
thanke fully remember the preservacon of this Hospitall in the late<lb></lb>
greate fire when it was even given upp for last by burning of Mr:<lb></lb>
Balams house then only separated by Timber Walls from this houses</p>
<p n="166">The Gateway of Portall is now very observer and by this designe<lb></lb>
wilbee made decent and observable to passengers which may invite<lb></lb>
contribucons to the releife of the poore</p>
<p n="167">The little ground taken from the Wards on this occasion is nothing soe<lb></lb>
prejudiciall to the Wards as it is advantagious in the improvement<lb></lb>
of the revenue And this addiccon is not without precedent both in<lb></lb>
ancient and Moderne instances Ancient in the Two late houses of Pitmans<lb></lb>
and Bartelotts and moderne in that which Mr: Balam lives in on the<lb></lb>
other side of the gate that the Governors have acted in this kind<lb></lb>
And it wilbee noe greate charge to make other provision back wards to<lb></lb>
receive Patients if there bee occasion And there hath bin a sume of<lb></lb>
Two Hundred pounds lately given and paid into this house which<lb></lb>
the Donor desired should bee laid out in such or the like manner<lb></lb>
and wee conceive that such a sume as that being disbursed wee night<lb></lb>
not only make another convenient Ward to containe severall more<lb></lb>
bedds then are lost by the prsent buildings, but also to make a convenient<lb></lb>
with drawing roome for the President and Governors: and hereby alsoe<lb></lb>
would the Revenue bee improved (as well as any other way of laying<lb></lb>
out such a sume as wee humbley conceive) because the Hall and<lb></lb>
this Roome would then bee rend'red sufficient to receive any burialls<lb></lb>
and other Publique Entertainments</p>
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