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The Humble Memorial of the Churchwardens &
their Ancient Inhabitants of the Parish of St.
Margaret Westminster.
Sheweth
That the Footway leading from Knightsbridge to her Mat.
house at Kensington is so very much damaged & Impaired
Occasioned by severall Springs arising in Hide Park, which
for want of Drains to carry the same of does greatly undamage
the wall which separates Hide Park from the said
Footway, and hath likewise rendered the same Footway impassable,
And Irrepairable if not timely prevented.
May it therefore please your Lop to give such
directions to the Master of her Maties Works
to make such Drains as shall be thought convenient
for carrying of the same.
White Hall Treary Chambers 11th Febry 1712. The most
Honble the Ld High Trearer of Great Britain is pleased to
referr this Memorial to Sr Christopr Wren Knt Surveyor
General & ye rest of the Principal Officers of her Mats Works
who are to Consider the Matter therein Contained and to
report a true state thereof to his Lordsp together wth their
Opinion what is fit to be done therein.
WM. LOWNDES,
Refd to Sr Christr Wren Kt & other
Parish of St. Margtts Westm Officers of Works.
A Copy.
The Originall Memorial was by Mr. Richd Filer & Mr. Mich1
Farmer Churchwardns & Mr. Arguis Delivered to the Honble Wm.
Lowndes, Esqre in order to be delivered to ye most HonbIe ye Ld
High Treasr of Great Britain.
In a letter dated 27th November, 1736, Lord Hervy
wrote:—"The road between this place (Kensington) and
London is grown so infamously bad that we live here in
the same solitude we should do if cast on a rock in the
middle of the ocean, and all the Londoners tell us there is
between them and us a great impassable gulf of mud."
The repair of the bridge over the Westbourne was carried
out jointly between the authorities of the Parish of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields and the Vestry of Westminster:—
Thursday, 10th April, 1684.—Ordered that the Churchwardens do
cause that part of Knightsbridge belonging to this parish to
be repaired and putt in the same condicon with the other part
of the said Bridge belonging to St. Martin's parish.
On an application being made by Mr. Lowndes iu 1735