Document 71, Draft Interrogatories, undated, p 1
| 160 Interry for this Exam Of Witnesses to be produced sworn | ||||
| and examined in a certain Cause now depending & at Issue | ||||
| in the High Co of Chancery wherin Heny Errington Esqr is | ||||
| Complt & Gawen Aynsley John Tweddle Bacon Wm Wastell | ||||
| are the Defends on the part & behalf of the Plt | ||||
| 1st Interrs Do you know the parties Complt & Defts in the Title of these Interrs | ||||
| named or any & which of &ym& & how long have you so known them or any | ||||
| and which of them Declare the truth of the matter inquired after by this | ||||
| interrogatory according To the best of your knowledge rememberance & Belief | ||||
| 2d Was you or not employed & when & by whom to make & form & Survey | ||||
| Plan for the purpose of making & erecting a Bridge over the River Tyne | ||||
| in the County of Northd & a Road thereto in the pleadings of this Cause mentd | ||||
| And did you or not |
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| & under such Articles of Agreemts as in the sd Pleadings mentd to build | ||||
| and make such Bridge & Road pursuant and agreeable to such Plan & under | ||||
| your directions & Inspection If yea Wher or no did the sd Complt cause such | ||||
| Bridge & Road there to be built erected & made persuant & in every respect | ||||
| according to such Plan & survey & agreable to your directions & your Inspn | ||||
| & conformable to ye sd Articles of Agreemt – Declare | ||||
| 3d Did the sd Complt as you know or bel or not, lay out & expend the Sums | ||||
| of 5700L & 400L in the sd Articles of Agreemts before mentd or any further or | ||||
| other Sums of money & to what amount as you know or why believe | ||||
| in erecting & making the sd Bridge & road declare | ||||
| 4 Was or not the sd Bridge after & |
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| been compleated, thrown down by a sudden & violent Flood. Wher was | ||||
| such accident occasioned by any defect in the sd Bridge or from the | ||||
| unusual Violence of the Flood & was there as you know or believe any | ||||
| real Defect in the sd Bridge or the Construction there of And set forth | ||||
| the particulars of the sd Accidt & the occasion there of as you know | ||||
| or why bel Declare | ||||
| 5 Whether or |
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| to be built over the sd River of Tyne & in order to make & render the | ||||
| same safe & secure from the like Accident as afd that the same | ||||
| should be erected & built after some other Plan than that by which | ||||
| the sd former Bridge made by the Complt was erected and built And if | ||||
| yea what woud be the Expence of building A Bridge after such other | ||||
| Plan And have you made or prepared any Plan & any & what estimate | ||||
| of the Expence of fulfilling the same And Set Forth partrs thereof | ||||
| Declare | ||||
| 6 Whether or no in case another Bridge was built over the sd River | ||||
| according to the Plan upon which the sd Complt Bridge was built |
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| to be thrown down in the Course of a few years Because of the sudden | ||||
| & great Floods which do occasionally appear in the sd River Tyne | ||||
| Declare | ||||
| 1 Do |
Note: Draft Interrogatories, p 1
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