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and unable tobe bro't up to Court when sent for (three the last
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Sessions being so weak that they cou'd not be bro't up to be dischar-
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-ged) & that he verily believed their Illness was often occasioned
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by their great Necessities & Want of Provision Your Committee
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was also informed yt the sd. Keepr having some Beans boyled.
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& the Water standing afterwards in the Kettle there was Quar-
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-rell among ye Prisoners which shou'd first dip their Bread in
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the Bean Water & that they eat the Bread so dipt very greedily
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& that they often eat Pea shells & were glad to gett them some
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Gentlemen also of your Committee who have several Times pre
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-sided in the Court of a Saturday Morning when the Prisoners are
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bro't up and called over acquainted the other Gentlemen of
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your Committee yt ye Prisoners so bro't up are most of them
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great Objects of Compassion yt they appeal halfstarved that
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they have often complained to them of their great want of neces-
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-sary Food that they have been so weak often wn. bro't up that it
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has been a Difficulty to bring them up & carry them back a
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gain & this as the said Gentlemen informed your Committee
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occasioned often as they very believe & according to the best
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Judgement they cou'd then make from want of food & Com
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-mon Necessaries & that the said
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had been so
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moved with Compassion that they had sometimes & on particu-
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-lar Occasions raised Money themselves & paid them Money
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out of their own Pockets for their necessary Relief & present
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Subsistance. Your Committee on this Representation of the
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Case & wch. they apprehend & believe to be a true one sent for
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the Keepr & his Deputy in order to be informed wt Numbr of
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Prisoners one Day wth another thro the whole Year might
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be in their Custody and on the nearest Computation your
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Committee cou'd make from their
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Account there
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might be thro the Year one Day wth another sometimes more
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sometimes less about fifty a Day this at an Allowance of 1d P Day
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to each Prisoners wou'd amount to abt £76 P Ann which is very
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near wt was the former Allowance in Money & which your
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Committee think might be a reasonable Allowance & which
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