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CHATSWORTH BUILDING ACCOUNTS. Fi 
good conscience, May it please your honours to grant unto 
your Orator process of subpena or subpenas to be directed to 
the said Benjamin Jackson, Henry Lobb, Thomas Young, 
John Cock, Henry Margetts, Sir Christopher Wren, William 
Talman, [ ] Peirse, [ ] Strong, Davis, 
[ ] Gibson, Elizabeth Apprice, and other their 
confederates when discovered commanding them and every of 
them at a certain day and under a certain pain therein to be 
limited personally to be and appear before your Honours in 
this Honourable Court then and there to answer all and 
; singular the premises and further stand to and abide such 
further order direction and decree therein as to your honours 
shall.seem meet and most agreeable with equity and good 
conscience. 
And your Orator shall pray &c.* 
T. PARKER. 
Fiat processus 
Edw. Wood. 
The severall answer of Benjamin Jackson one of 
the Defendts. to the Bill of complt. of the most 
noble Willm. Duke of Devonshire Complt. 
This Defendant now and at all times hereafter saving to 
 himselfe all and all manner of advantage and exceptions to the 
_ manifold incertainties and insufficiencies in the complts. said 
bill of Complt. contained for answer thereto or to so much 
thereof as anywise concernes this Defendant to make answer 
unto he answereth and saith That he believes it to be true 
that his Grace the complt. having a purpose to pull downe and 
rebuild his house in Derbyshire in the Bill mentioned was 
Sollicitous to get able and good workemen and artists of all 
rts to doe the same And his said Grace residing in and 
bout London was pleased amongst others to send by Mr. 
Tallman his Surveyor (as this Defendt. doubteth not to prove) 
to treat and agree with this Defendt. for performance of the 
Masons and Carvers worke in Stone which was to be done in 
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