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wch came thereby to the Lords of his Maties most Hoble Privie
Counsell in the time of King James of blessed memory And both
before and since that his Matie hath been at great charge in
making severall grates neare Charing Crosse to Stay the Soyle
fro coming downe to Whitehall wch notwithstanding did not have
theffect ffor nevertheless his Matie hath bene att a continuall
charge for many yeares in carrying away the soyle and after that
there being no course taken for redresse therein it was chargd
upon the parishioners of St. Martins in the ffieldes.
This water and soyle cominge fro St. Martins Lane hath also
beene founde and Prsented as a nuisance to his Maties house of
Whitehall by severall juries of Sewers.
That the water prceeding fro ye buildings lycensed to be built
in Covent Garden came never downe to Whitehall and was never
any nuisance thereunto neither was it founde in any of the saide
Prsentments to be a nuisance.
That to avoyde the nuisance aforesayde wee thought fitt by
yr Lopps direcon to have a subtanciall Sewer made fro St. Martins
Lane to ye River of Thames and to that ende wee respectively
assessed all such psones whose houses did or might issue into the
said sewer The receypts and payments wherof may appear by
nootes given unto Mr. Mewtas by yor Lopps Comandement. And
forasmuch as the sewers intended are not yet finished nor the
money wholly paid for that wch is already done for want of the
said money wch is yet behinde and uncollected (a greate parte
whereof is assessed upon my Lord of Salisbury and not paid) the
worke hath staied above theis twelve months and cannott be
finished so as a greate pte of the nuisance to His Maties house still
contiueth.
INIGO JONES*
THOMAS BALDWIN
PET. HEYWOOD
HENRY WICKS.
19 Sept. 1638.
[At a Privy Council held at Hampton Court the
23 Sept., 1638.
Order was made upon the aforesaid certificate, and the evidence
of Mr Inigo Jones' Surveyor of His Matys works and others. That
the Messenger Lewis at once call upon all those persons who
have yet not paid their assessments towards the making and
completing the sewer, and that after due notice and default they
be immediately proceeded against for recovery thereof, and
warrants issued accordingly That the Earl of Salisbury denies
that the Sewer made by his father, & the houses erected in St
Martins Lane have caused the nuisance, but that the nuisance
has arisen through the buildings erected by others who stopped
the Sewer running under Northampton house. But as the
*Architect of St. Martin's Church, and master of Sir Christopher Wren,