10 CHATSWORTH BUILDING ACCOUNTS. 
by and between your Orator and the said Artificers and 
Tradesmen in and by the said Articles that if default of 
payment of both or either of the sums of Two thousand 
pounds as aforesaid should happen to be made Contrary to 
the true intent and meaning of the said Articles it should and 
might be lawful to and for the said several workmen partyes 
to the said Articles to desist from further prosecution of their 
said works and that their said several works should then be 
valued as before in and by the said Articles was mentioned or 
to that effect as in and by the said Articles duly executed &c. 
may appear. And your Orator further sheweth that in pursuance 
of the sd Articles the said Jackson &c. did severally apply 
themselves unto the said intended building and works and 
did for some time observe the said Articles but they did 
very much neglect the same and especially the said Jackson 
did very much neglect his part in the pulling down of the old 
and erecting and carrying on the said new intended building and 
did not employ therein such a competent number of Masons 
and workmen as might in probability have carryed on and finished 
the said Masons work of the said Building by the time in the 
Articles prefixed and many times employed therein few or no work- 
men at all by great spaces of time together. And although your 
Orator did pay the said several sums of £2,000 a piece 
according to the said Articles or at least to the content of 
all the said workmen, yet did they not finish the said new 
building and work but greatly neglected and slighted the same 
to your Orator’s great wrong and damage and for want thereof 
your Orator’s said house became and was not habitable for 
a long space of time together. And your Orator further 
sheweth that the said workmen and tradesmen or many of 
them severally Continued to work upon and about the said 
building at certain times as they pleased by the space of 
several years together ending in or about the month of 
[ ] in the year [ | And for such their said work they 
themselves did severally set down and demand several rates 
prices and sums of money as to themselves seemed meet for 
