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Middx: ss.
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Wee whose Names are subscribed two of his Majts.
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Justices
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of the peace
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for the said County Inhabiting in the
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Parish of
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Stepney within the
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in the said County do hereby
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Certifie that by Virtue of an Act of of Parliament made in the 2d. year
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of the reign of our late Sovereign Lord and Lady King William and
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Queen Mary Intituled an Act for paving and Cleansing the Street
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in the Cities of London and Westminster and suburbs and Liberties
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thereof and out Parishes in the County of Middx and in the Burrough
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of Southwarke and other places within the weekly bills of Mortality
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in the County of Surry and for regulating the markets therein
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mentioned have viewed and Inspected a certain publick new
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Street or way in the said Parish Leading out of Stepney towards
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whitechapple Commonly known or called by the name of
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als
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Bull Lane
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Containing in length from East to West
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two hundred and eighty four foot or thereabouts and in breadth from
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North to South twenty and two foot or thereabouts and do also
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Certifie that the same is very bad and much out of repair and in
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the Winter season almost Unpassable for his Majts. leige People
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and Passengers travelling that way and doe adjudge that the same
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ought to be paved and mended with Stone on both sides of the way
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and that the several persons thereafter mentioned ought to pave
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and amend the same in front so farr as each of their several
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houses and buildings extendeth at their several and respective
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Costs and Charges Vizt. on the North side of the said New Street
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or way to the Middle thereof Sr:
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Thomas Roberts
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Barrt
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. in Length
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twenty and eight feet
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Thomas Townsend
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fourty and two feet
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Samll. Woodford
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andJohnson nineteen feet
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George
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twenty and five feet
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Samll. Jones
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Edward Sweet
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Eightyfeet and on the south side of the
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said new Street or way to the middle thereof
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James Smith
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in length
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one hundred feet
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Jno. Guy
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thirty and two feet and
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Dove Rayner
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one hundred fifty and two feet. In Wittness whereof wee
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have hereunto sett our hands the
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13th. day of January Anno
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Dmi 1727
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Steph: Martin Leake
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