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Section XII Builders to pay to the Chamberlain of London 6s. 8d. before they lay their Foundation.

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For the defraying whereof and all incident charges of measureing, stakeing out, takeing the Levell, and surveying the said Streets and Grounds. Bee it further enacted That all and every the said Builders before his or their Foundation shall be laid, or such Survey taken, shall repaire to the Chamberlaine of London, and there enter his Name together with the Place where X1the said Building is soe to be sett out, and pay downe to the said Chamberlaine the summe of six shillings and eight pence for every Foundation soe to be built respectively, upon Receipt whereof the said Chamberlaine shall give his Acquittance; which said Acquittance being produced to the said Surveyours or any of them, they and every of them are hereby required within three dayes next after such Request to survey and sett out all and every the said Foundations accordingly.

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: his O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]