P Adjorn Jovis 6 o. die July 1732

Order directing Several
repaires to be done to
New prison at
Clerkenwell Etc}

Upon reading the Report of Simon Michell< no role > Robert Tothill< no role >
& Andrew Osborne< no role > Esqrs . three of his Maties Justices of the
peace of this County being a Quorum of the Committee
appointed by an Order made in February Sessions last to
take a view of the Room called the Felons Room in New
Prison at Clerkenwell in this County, and to take to their
assistance Such able Workman or Workmen as they
should think fit, and to See if the Floor or any other &
what part or parts of the Said Felons Room was out of
repaire and not of Sufficient Strength for the Safe
Custody of prisoners, It appeareth to this Court by the Said
Report that the Said, three Justices have viewed the Said
Felons Room And find, that the boards of the floor are
intirely broken up & destroyed, and that Some of the
Ground Toysts< no role > are defective, and that they are of
opinion that Some new Toysts be laid downe and the
floor new boarded, And that when the Said Justices
were at new prison they were informed that in the
Men's comon Ward between that and Bridewell the
partition is broken and holes made third the Same, And
that they thereupon viewed, the Same and found it to be
See broken, and alsoe the bottom part of the great gate
leading into the prison to be rotten & decayed occasioned
in great measure by the raiseing of the road or way
leading thereto, This Court on consideracon of the Said
Report doth agree to the Same, And doth Order that the
repaires & matters therin Specifyed which are wanting
& necessary to be done be effectually done & performed
in a Substantial and Workman like manner, and at
reasonable prices under the care & inspection of the Said
Committee named in the Said Order made in February
Sessions last ( Vizt.) Simon Michell< no role > William Brooke Robert
Tothill William Hayton Thomas Robe< no role > & Andrew