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Exchequer: Treasury of the Receipt - Memorial to Sir Christopher Wren, dated 1701.

(Catalogue reference: E 36/253 folio 294)

1. The Memoriall of John Lowe and Peter
2. Le Neve Vice Chamberlains of the Excheq[ue]r
3. To the Hono[ra]ble S[i]r Christofer Wrenn K[nigh]t Surveyor
4. Gen[er]all of his Ma[jes]ties Works
5. That the Chapter house in the Abbey of Westm[inster] being a
6. Repository for the publick Records of the Nation is verey
7. much out of repair Especially in the Glasing whereby the
8. Raine beats In & Endamageth the Same Records to both the
9. publick and private Coss that the Ceiling of the passage there
10. was ordered to be repaired about Six Years Since & Scaffolds were
11. placed in order thereto w[hi]ch have remained there ever Since
12. but ever Since no Workmen came to repair
13. I am S[i]r Yo[u]r most
14. humble Serv[an]t
15. June 1701.
16. P. Le Neve
17. Delivered to and For S[i]r Christopher Wren