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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rebuilding-of-london-act-1670/section-IX",
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  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/22/11",
  "legislation_title": "Rebuilding of London Act 1670",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rebuilding-of-london-act-1670",
  "path": "section/IX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IX",
  "heading": "Recital of 18 & 19 Car. II. c. 8. § 32. (19 C. II. c. 3. § 34.) Thames Street, &c. to be raised Three Foot at least.",
  "text": "Breadth of the Streets and Passages.; The enlarged Passage from Cheapside to the Thames confirmed.; Owners of Grounds to take Notice of Stakes.; Levels and Marks for raising and sinking of Streets to be observed.\nAnd whereas by the said Act for the rebuilding of the said City of London It is alsoe enacted for the preventing of Inundations and for easines of assent That the Streete called Thames streete and all the Ground betweene the said Streete and the River of Thames should be raised and made higher by three Foote at the least above the surface of the Ground as then it lay. And alsoe that the Lord Maior and Aldermen of London should and might open and enlarge a Streete or Passage to the River of Thames from Cheapeside through Soaper lane, and to Thames streete and thenceforth to the River of Thames And from the Three Cranes to the Thames aforesaid; and to make the same Streets and Passages fower and twenty Foote in Breadth. Now for prevention of any doubt that may arise touching the manner of cutting the said Streets and ordering the same; and to the end the said Streete called Thames streete and the Ground betweene the same and the River of Thames may be raised according to the intent of the said Act; and that other Streetes and Passages leadeing to and from the same may be answerable to their Levells thereunto, and that the steepenes and difficultie of the riseing and assent from the said River may with the more ease be abated Bee it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That the said Streetes or Passages from Cheapeside through Soaper lane to Thames streete and thenceforth to the River of Thames, and alsoe from the Three Cranes to the said River shall be and remaine in such manner and forme as now they are; Any matter or thing to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. And all Owners, Occupiers and all other person or persons any way interessed of, or in any the Grounds soe staked and sett out for the cutting, opening and enlargeing of the said Streets, Lanes or Passages or any of them are hereby required to take notice thereof, and to conforme thereunto accordingly. And alsoe that the Levells and Markes for raiseing or sinkeing aswell of the said Streete called Thames streete and the Ground betweene the same and the River of Thames as all other Streetes in and about the said City and Liberties thereof, in such manner as the same are or shall be appointed to be done before the twenty nineth day of September One thousand six hundred seaventy one by the Commissioners of Sewers and Pavements appointed by Act of Parlyament be henceforth observed in all places within the same.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/22/11/section/IX",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:27:40.641031+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}