By Adjournment on Thursday the Sixth Day of
December 1750 .

Order for repairing
New Prison at
Clerkenwell , and that
Mr. Richd. Jupp be
employed as Carpenter
& Mr. Holmes< no role >
as Bricklayer in
doing the Said Repairs}

A Presentment being made unto this Court by the grand
Jury for the County of Middx assembled at this present
General Session of the peace this day by holden by
Adjournment at Hicks hall in St. John Street in and for
the said County that they have viewed the prison
called new Prison at Clerkenwell and find that the same
is very much out of repair, and that it is requisite &
Necessary that the Same be forthwith well andsuff
sufficiently repaired, and that the said prison
ought to be repaired at the Charge of the Inhabitants
of the said county pursuant to the statute in such
Case made It is thereupon ordered by this Court
that the said prisonthat the said prisonbe well
& Sufficiently repaired with all and all manner of
needfull & necessary reparations for the safely
keeping the prisoners which are or shall be
committed to the custody of the Keeper of the
said Prison and this Court doth Order that Richard Jupp< no role >
Carpenter be employed to do the Carpenters work
and Richard Holmes< no role > Bricklayer to do the Bricklayers
work necessary to be done to the said Prison.

By Adjournment on Thursday the sixth Day of Decr. 1750

Order for appointing
a Committee of Justices
of the Peace in Easter
Sessions yearly to
take a view of New
Prison, and to See
if any & what repairs
may be necessary to
be done there to.}

For the more effectual Keeping the prison called new prison
at Clerkenwell in good and sufficient repair It is ordered
by this court that a Committee of his Majestys Justices
of the peace of this county be appointed in every Easter
Sessions Yearly to take View of the said prison And to
see if any and what repairs may be then wanting &
necessary to be done to the same Prison And to report