Rebuilding of London Act 1670

XXXVIII. A new Key or Wharf to be made on a certain Tract of Ground from London Bridge to the Temple Forty Foot broad.

Buildings fronting to be of Second or Third Rate according to 18 & 19 C. II. c. 8. (19 C. II. c. 3.)

And bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That for the better benefitt and accommodation of Trade and for other great Conveniencies there shall be left a continued Tract of Ground all along from London bridge to the Temple of the breadth of Forty Foote of Assize from the North side of the River of Thames to be converted to a Key, or publicke and open Wharfe, and that in order thereunto all Buildings, Sheds, Pales, Walls, Inclosures and other obstructions and impediments whatsoever now standing or being within, Forty Foote Northward of the said River of Thames betweene the places aforesaid (Cranes, Staires and Dockes onely excepted) shall within eight monethes now next ensueing be taken downe and removed, and the said Ground cleared and levelled, and that from henceforth there shall be noe Building or Erection whatsoever (except onely Craines, Staires and Dockes as aforesaid) placed or sett within or upon the said Forty Foote of Ground or any part thereof betweene the places aforesaid, And that all Buildings that shall hereafter immediately border upon any part of the said Ground upon the North side thereof shall front and be placed in the Line that shall be sett out for the Bounds of the Breadth of the said Forty Foote of, Ground Northward. And that the same Building shall be of the Second or Third sorte or rate of Buildings mentioned in a former Act of this present Parlyament entituled An Act for the rebuilding of the City of London at the Election of the builder thereof, wherein such regularity of Building shall be observed, and under such penaltyes as are contained in the said Act in that behalfe and wherein such Uniformity [X1 alsoe] shall be had as in other Streets of the said City except Common Halls for Companyes and other Buildings which shall be otherwise allowed of by his Majestie.

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X1 interlined on the Roll.