THO. KENTISH a Trustee for certain Indigent Poor, his Complaint of great Injuries do● the City and their Officers, Mr. Oddy and others, &c. drawn up at the Invitation of the Lord 〈◇〉 and Court of Aldermen, in their Order dated Sept. 17. 1689. wherein they Honourably promise to hear his Complaint, and do him Right.  
1. THat in or about 1684. an House on the middle East part of London-Bridge, which cost above 220 l. and was 
●int.  bequeathed in Trust for paying a weekly Charity of 10 l. 8 s. per Ann. for above 30 years then to come, was demolished by the City and Bridge-house Officers and Work-men, as a nuisance, without giving him the Trustee any previous notice of an Indictment, and without offering any reasonable Terms; tho he had under his Hand once and again professed his readiness for the public Good to do any thing he could do Legally and Honestly; and had declared his hard Case, both as under a 7 years Lease to an unreasonable Tenant, and more than a 30 years Trust for needy Poor: And tho( as now appears) Terms easy enough were granted others, and particularly the Widow web. Nay, when they would offer no Terms, T. K. did offer to build if the Tenant would pay the Rent in Arrear already disbursed to the Poor, and deliver up his Lease; and if the City would bait some Rent for the Rooms to be lost over the Street. Both which were denied.  
Mr. Oddy's Answer in Chancery owns all T. K.'s offers, and much of the City's denials and injurious procedures; 
Proof.  and his Letters complete the Evidence.  

1. His Letter dated Aug. 1. 1684. saith, The Committee cannot abate any thing of the present Rent, &c.  
2. His Letter dated August 9. saith, The Committee upon reading your Case, sent for your Tenant, and prevailed with him to pay a Quarters Rent, and to surrender his Lease;— and in this the Committee have done all they can for you. Now thus T. K. must buy his Tenant out of the 7 years Lease he had bought him into. For when another offered 26 l. per ann. for a year or two, without Lease, this Tenant for a 7 years Lease had it at 18 l. per ann. he had been in possession of it now almost two years, and for that time the other would have given 52 l. he had paid but 18 l. and would have paid but 4 l. 10 s. more, and yet have been rid of his 7 years Lease.  
3. His next Letter, dated Octob. 15. 1684. saith, The Sheriffs Officers intend to morrow to Level and remove part of your House adjudged a Common nuisance, &c.   

Complaint.  2. That after this demolishment, He( zealous of Peace and the public good, and not suspicious of Fraudulencies) was by several Artifices drawn to discharge his Tenant, and engage himself in Articles for Building, before he could come at his old Lease, or get Possession or sight of his House and its ruins. The Key being then delivered, and he finding that( in the time of this Treaty) his attorneys, Stairs and Foundations, had been so removed, that no visible Evidence was left of the true Dimensions, he made a General Agreement with the Carpenter, who was to build on both sides, and whose own House joined to his North-side, to build for him a new House on his Ground, not mentioning any measure of Breadth, which would have been some security to him, and some awe upon the Carpenter. But Mr. Oddy( having promised to bear this Carpenter out) did with others for his Security and at his sole desire( who had designedly made these ruins, and was to gain by them) make a pretended Survey when none but the Front-wall was standing set out for K. both Front and R●●e, and therein but part of his Ground for the whole, viz. less than 11 Foot for more than 17 Foot breadth, as appears at the point of the unmoved Stone-Peer, laying the rest( which was the breadth in which stood 3 chimneys, a Stair ●ase, Counting-house and other Conveniences in an additional Building on the North-side the main Rooms and Roof) into the Carpenters own Ground or breadth. By this means the Carpenter hath sold or disposed several Foot-bredth to others; and pleads he hath built K.'s House on all his Ground, because all the City set out for him: K.'s House is useless and unhabitable, standing but upon part of his Ground; and yet he hath been forced to lay down for it the Price agreed only to be paid for a convenient House on his whole Ground: and the City hath let that Ground to others, which was for 30 years to come under Lease to Kentish.  

1. The general Agreement with Carpenter without measure of breadth, appears by sealed Articles. 
Proof.   
2. The Account of the injurious admeasurement under Mr. Oddy's own hand. The Front of Mr. Kentish's house will be 11 foot, and the Rear at 28 foot deep but 10 foot 10 Inches, clear of all Intermixtures upright, from the mid● of one Partition to the middle of the other. Admeasured the 22th. of Apr. 1685. Phil. Oddy.  
3. The Injuriousness of this Admeasurement proved by 5 or 6 Affidavits made before Sir T. Pilkington Lord Maior, which are plain and indisputable, and made by unconcerned persons, Anno 1689. and 1690.   
We prove, 

( 1) That the Lease grants all the Rooms from Shop to Garret 11 foot breadth, and 28 foot, 10 Inches length, besides Appurtenances.  
( 2) That on the North-side out of these 11 foot Rooms and their Roof, was appurtenant thereto an additional Building, in which were the chimneys, commencing about 2 or 3 foot from the present new Front, and beyond these chimneys Eastward a Counting-house, these, House of Office, and other Conveniences under a distinct Roof of their own.  
( 3) That the 11 foot Rooms of the old House ran straight, without any Cumberance of the chimneys and Stairs in them, and that the Rooms of the new House are but 10 foot and ½ within the Walls, and they are so cumbered and filled up with the chimneys and Stairs, that the House is hardly habitable.  
( 4) That the additional Building at the rear, standing over the point of the unmoved Stone-Peer, joined 〈◇〉 that House on his North-side at least a foot or 2 short of the North-side of that point; but by taking fro● K. the breadth of this additional Building, the new Houses now join full 4 foot Southwards from that u●moved point: So that there is apparently 5 or 6 foot injury done him in breadth on that side. Yet we ●ther prove,  
( 5) That breadth is also taken from T. K.'s South-side; not only 3 Inches, which are confessed in the Answer in Chancery, but above a foot, as appears by the Increase of breadth in the two adjacent Houses on that side from 20 foot nine Inches, if so much, unto 22 foot or thereabouts.    
Against these Complaints and Evidences, Mr. Oddy seems to have material Pleas and Objections, from some bold Oaths in Chancery, his own and others, from some Papers and Writings, and from some darkness and defect in K.'s City Lease, which could only be known to him, and others by him, who took occasion and encouragement thence for this whole Intriege. These may seem to do him some service, while only whispered into some mens ears; yet 'tis his great skill and the Master-piece of his policy to keep them from a cool hearing and full Answer, for that would open such mysteries as would make his best Friends blushy. To prevent therefore an hearing in Westminster-hall, K. is promised an hearing and ●●ighting by the Court of Aldermen; to prevent an hearing there, a Reference to Arbitrators is desired: To prevent this, ●he City long insists, that one who was a party, and deeply guilty in the things complained of, should be an Arbitrator. At last, in 6 or 7 months time Arbitrators are fixed and Bonds sealed. But then the 4 must all meet together, and Mr. Odd● ●o, or nothing could be done; Mr. Oddy had therefore skill and influence enough to prevent any seasonable meeting●●● hearing, or final determining. And so the Arbitration Bonds are expired, and the matter not heard. Thus after ●ny months tedious and chargeable Attendances on the City for Justice, in a matter of injured Charit●, 〈…〉 to seek his redress at Law, where the City will have the honour of defending their injurious Servants by a 〈…〉 so against the private Purse of the injured Trustee of necessitous Poor.