P adjorn die Martis 27o. die Augusti 1723 .

Order for takeing a
view of New prison
at Clerkenwell Etc}

Upon reading the humbe Petition of John Geary< no role > Keeper
of New prison at Clerkenwell in this County exhibited
unto this Court setting forth that one of the main brick
Walls in the said prison is so very ruinous and in danger
of falling that not only the persons passing by the
same daily to the house of the said prison go in great
danger of their lives, but the prisoners there who usually
walk in the Yard (upon the falling thereof) must
inevitably make their escapes, And that the Inner
Gate of the said prison and also part of the Garden
Walls there are much fall'n to decay and in great want
of being repaired to prevent escapes, And the petitioner
therefore praying that the same may be viewed by
such a Comittee as this Court shall appoint that the
same may be repaired to prevent further danger, It is
thought fit and Ordered by this Court that it be And
it is hereby recomended and referred unto Robert
Thornhill< no role > Esqr . Sr . Isaac Tillard< no role > , Knt . William
Cotesworth< no role > senr John Fuller< no role > D'Oyly Michel Richard
Gifford< no role > John Troughton< no role > William Kingsford Matthew
Hewit< no role > Alexander Ward< no role > Joseph Haynes< no role > and Richard
Newton< no role > Esqrs Justices of the peace for this County or
any three or more of them to take a view of the said
prison, and to see if the same or any and what part
thereof is out of repair, and if any and what repairs
are wanting and necessary to be done thereto, And to
take to their Assistance such able Workman or Workmen
as they shall think fit, and to make an estimate of
what it will cost to repair the same, And to make a
Report of the Matters aforesaid unto this Court.