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