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CHATSWORTH BUILDING ACCOUNTS. If 
their respective works without consulting any other person 
thereupon which rates and prices were and are very unreason- 
able and excessive for which cause and reason your orator did 
often desire the said Sir Christopher Wren and Mr. Talman 
to view and value the said building and works thereupon as 
by the said Articles was intended, but the said Sir Christopher 
Wren and Mr. Talman did wholly forbear omit or neglect -so 
to do, but on the contrary they did, at the request of the 
said workmen and confederates hereinafter named, appoint 
certain persons altogether unknown to your Orator and who 
lived in and about London and were wholly and entirely 
strangers in the said County of Derby where the said work 
was done and where workmen and labourers are employed and 
paid and buildings and other works erected and done at much 
less than half the wages rates and prices allowed and paid in 
and about London to measure and value the said several 
works which said persons so employed did take upon 
them to view and value the said buildings and works made 
and done by the said Jackson &c. and the labourers and 
workmen by them employed therein without having any respect 
to the cheapness of that Countrey in those respects and did 
value the same even as the said Jackson &c. had set down 
and valued the same and at as full rates as if the said 
building &c. had been done in or about the City of London 
where workmen’s wages materials buildings and works of that 
nature are at least double in value to the like in the County 
of Derby and without any such abatements as ought to have 
been made and particularly in respect of the materials of the 
said Old building used and employed by them in the said new 
building, all which ought to have been considered and abated for. 
Further sheweth that several of the said tradesmen and work- 
-men did make several new and other contracts with your 
_Orator touching several works in and about the said new 
building at Chatsworth which being privately made between 
_ your Orator and them they have valued as done in pursuance 
of the said articles when they were not so done, but done 
