P adjorn die Jovis 29o. die Augusti 1723 .

Order for repairing
of New Prison Etc}

Whitelock Bulstrode< no role > Esqr
Sr. Hen: Bateman< no role > Knt.

John Milner< no role > This name instance is in set 4214.
Saml. Perry< no role > } Esqrs

Whereas John Geary< no role > Keeper of New prison at Clerkenwell in
this County exhibited his humble petition unto this Court
on Tuesday the twenty seventh day of August instant
settingforth 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 usuall 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 was by Order made by this
Court on the said twenty seventh day of August instant
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< no role >
Richard Gifford< no role > John Troughton< no role > William Kingsford< no role >
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 should 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 Now
upon Report made to this Court Ore tenns, by several
of the said Referrees that they have taken a view of the
said prison, and find that several parts of the same
are out of repair, and that it is very requisite and of
great importance that the same should be speedily
repaired, It is Ordered by this Court that it be And it is
hereby recomended and referred unto the Comittee
of Justices above named or any three of them to give