Middlesex Sessions:
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28th February 1734 - 14th April 1743

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offered that if the County wou'd choose him he wou'd take it without
the sd. £60 P Ann and that he was thereupon accordingly chose
That sometime afterwards the Keepr of New Prison by Petition
to this Court setting forth the great Hardships he was under
in being obliged to pay £20 P Ann to the Keepr. of Bridewell
that his Income was greatly lessened & yt he was also obliged
to pay £10 P Ann to the Matron of the sd. Prison this Court
did discharge ye sd. Keepr of New Prison from Paymt of ye said
Sum any longer Since wch. Time he has had no stated Salary
or Allowance. That except his Fees from the Poor People ma-
-ny of whom are not able to pay any Fees & are often discharged
wthout any Paymt he has no Income except what his Depu-
-ty pays him who finds a Turkey & gives him Annually £9
& wt answersarises from the PeoplePrisoners beating of Hemp
wch Gain in exceeding small especially lately as Hemp is so
dear Mr Wallbank the present Keeper or Governour of Bride
-well further acquainted your Committee yt those committed
to Labour might earn about three half pence a Day or two
Pence that three Pence a Day was very great Earnings & yt
he allowed those committed to Labour whether they beat Hemp or not
a Quartern Loaf among eight every Day at his own Charge that for
Drink they had good Water That more were committed to Labour
than for want of Sureties That those committed for want of Sureties
had nothing from him except wt he sometimes sent them to keep
them from Starving Neithr was there any Allowance of Provi-
-sion to the sd. Prison or Prisoners Neither had they any Per-
-son allowed to go out to beg for them That the Persons in his
Custody are even lower in Life & poorer than those committed
to New Prison & often have not one Friend come near them
during the whole Time they are confined. That the Neighbours
in Pity sometimes send them some Broth particularly they who
dwell in the Quakers Workhouse That many of the Prisoners are in
a dismall Condition near unto starving & that the he does often sup
-ply them to keep them alive yet his Income is not sufficient to
allow them thereout necessary Food that they are often very ill
and




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