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Document 22, Mr Errington's draft Petition to Parliament, p 1

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To the Right Honourable The Commons of Great Britain in
Parliament assembled
The Humble Petition of Henry Errington of Sandhoe
in the County of Northumberland Esqr
Sheweth
in the preceding year
That in the Year 1771 a Bridge, which had been built about a Year by
Subscription, near Hexham, in $North'land$ over the River Tyne was forced down by a
That sd having
great [Land?] Flood. ⁁The Justices of the Peace for the ⁁County, being desirous of rebuilding
rebuilt, for such purpose
the sd Bridge ⁁ not only employed an eminent Engineer to make them a Plan ⁁ & to conduct
superintend persons to the building thereof
⁁the undertaking but published Advertisemts for ⁁ Undertakers ⁁ during which Time several
Tryals were made by direction of the said Engineer & a considerable Quantity of Stone Timber
&
Iron & other Materials were collected in part from the Ruins of the Old Bridge others
fresh Materials were but
prepared afresh at the Expence of the County and tho' Advertisemts were continued
the above no Person
for this purpose for sevl Years yet no one ⁁ appeared willing to run the risk of
to build said Bridge [??] either upon the Scite of the former bridge one or in
undertaking ⁁ the [???] [???] [???] [???] any other place, 'till your Petitioner
an eminent engineer
who had consulted Mr Smeaton, made a proposal to the County to rebuild the
place place where the
Bridge, at a place called the Lower ford, about half a Mile below the ⁁ former ,but
bridge stood the where Stratum or Soil in which place called the Lower ford
where [???] ⁁ had been reported on [??] Tryals to have been nearly the
that
same as ⁁ where the Bridge originally stood./ That by Articles of Agreemt dated
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