Middx ss:

Ad General Quarterial Session pacis Dni Regis tent p Com Middx apnd
Hickshall in St. John Street in Com prd. P adjournmt. die Jovis Scilt decimo octavo die
Januar Anne regni Dmi Georgy Scid nunc Regis mgne Britannie Etc primo coram
John Milner< no role > Thoma Pindar< no role > R [..] Gifford Willo Ellis< no role > Aris & al Socys sins Justic dci Dmi
Regis ad pacem in Com prd. conservand noe non ad divers felon transgr & al malefacta
in eadem Com P petrat andiend & terminand assign. Etc

Whereas Stephen Martin Leake< no role > and Philip Willshire< no role > Esqrs . of his Majts. Justices of the
peace for this County inhabiting in the Parish of Stepney within the Tower Division in the said County
have by Writing under their hands bearing date the thirteenth Day of January instant certified unto this
Court that by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the Second year of the Reign of our late
Sovereigne Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary Intituled an Act for paving and cleansing
the Streets in the Cities of London and Westminster and Suburds and Liberties thereof and out Parishes
in the County of Middx and in the Burrough of Southwarke and other places within the Weekly Bills
of Mortality in the County of Surry and for regulating the Markets therein mentioned they have viewed
& inspected a certain publick new Street or way in the said Parish leading out of Stepney towards
Whitechapple comonly knowne or called by the name of Beast Lane als Bull Lane containing in length
from East to West two hundred and eighty four feet or thereabouts and in breadth from North to
South Twenty and two feet or thereabouts And have also certified that the sume is very bad & much out
of repair and in the Winter Season almost impassable for his Majts. liege People & Passengers
travelling that Way, And do adjudge that the same ought to be paved and mended with Stone on
both sides of the way and that the several Persons hereafter mentioned ought to pave and amend
the same in front so farr as each of their Several houses and buildings extendeth at their
Several and respective costs & Charges (vizt.) on the North side of the said New Street or Way to the
Middle thereof Sr. Thomas Roberts< no role > Barrt . in length twenty & eight feet Thomas Townsend< no role > fourty
& two feet Samuel Woodford< no role > & William Johnson< no role > nineteen feet George Peers< no role > twenty and five feet Samuel
Jones< no role > Esqr . eighty and six feet & Edward Sweet< no role > eighty feet, and on the South side of the said New
Street or way to the middle thereof James Smith< no role > in Length one hundred feet John Guy< no role > thirty and two
feet & Dove Rayner< no role > one hundred fifty and two feet This Court upon Consideration of the said
Certificate Doth think fitt and Order that the said new street or Way called Beast Lane als
Bill Lane described in the said Certificate as aforesaid be well and sufficiently paved with Stone
according to the Judgmt. of the said two Justices of the peace, And this Court doth Order that the
Several Persons above named doe (upon Notice hereof) well and Sufficiently pave the Same with
Stone before the twenty fourth Day of June now next ensuing according to the Judgment of the
same Justices under the Penaltys contained in the said Act of Parliament for their Neglect &
default of paving within the time aforesaid pursuant to this Order, unless the aforesaid Persons
haveing Notice hereof as aforesaid shall on Monday the twenty sixthday of February now next
ensueing at nine of the Clock in the forenoone shew unto this Court good Cause to the Contrary.

P Cur
Walter