loses their Fees to his great detriment, and is at
the trouble and charge of keeping and maintaining
most of them besides the Care and trouble of Conveying
them to Newgate, And that the Petitioner hath for
near Two Yeares past had but few other kind of
Prisoners Committed and brought to his Custody &
most of them poor indigent Persons whose Fees he
not only loses but must maintaine them, and often times
small Children brought with them, dureing their
Confinement, In so much that the Petitioner doth not
receive by the Profits ariseing or accrewing to him
by Vertue of his said Office Soe much as pays the
necessary Charge of House keeping, Maintaining
Servants and the poor Prisoners, paying for the
Water and Small Repaires, finding comon necessarys
carrying the dirt away, and other incident Charges
belonging to the said Prison (the truth whereof the
Petitioner is ready to testify upon Oath if required)
All which readers the Petitioner uncapable of paying
the Yearly Sumes of Twenty Pounds and Ten Pounds
charged on the Petitioner on his first entrance of the
said Office, And the Petitioner therefore prayed that
this Court will be pleased to take the Premisses
into Consideration, and grant him such Reliefe as to
this Court shall Seem meet, And it appearing to
this Court that an Order was made at the Generall
Sessions of the Peace holden for this County by
adjornment on Thursday the Twenty Second day of
May now last whereby It was Ordered that the
Petitioner should on or before the Seventh day of
July instant pay unto Barwell Smith< no role > Esquire
Treasurer for the Yeare one thousand seven hundred
and twenty eight for maimed Soldiers and Mariners
within the Hundreds of Ossulston Edmonton & Gore
in the said County the Sume of Twenty Pounds due from
the Petitioner and payable at Lady day One Thousand
seven hundred and twenty Seven as Keeper of New
Prison aforesaid on Account of Repairing the Same,