An act for charging divers houses , Tenements, and Hereditaments, in the City of London, and County of Hertford, Part of the settled Estate of William Earl Cowper, with raising Money towards defraying the Expences of rebuilding the said Houses in London burnt down and destroyed by Fire.

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An act for charging divers houses , Tenements, and Hereditaments, in the City of London, and County of Hertford, Part of the settled Estate of William Earl Cowper, with raising Money towards defraying the Expences of rebuilding the said Houses in London burnt down and destroyed by Fire.