Expences of the Same and that the latter hath been more especially
reduced Since the late Act of Parliament for preventing the
excessive Use of [..] Spiritous Liquors took place whereby the
Said Liquors restrained from being vended within the Limitt of any
Prison and thereby the Benefit of the Taphouse hath upon that
account fallen to a very inconsiderable value, and the Said Comittee
are therefore of Opinion that the Said William Pentlow< no role > as Keeper
of the Said Prison be entirely discharged from Midsummer day last
from the payment of the Said annual Sum of twenty Pounds for and
towards the Repairs as aforesaid to the Said Treasurer during
the pleasure of the Court, And that in further Consideration of
the great number of Felons who are committed to the Said Prison
and afterwards removed to Newgate in order for taking their
Tryals at the Old Baily for all of whom no manner of Fees are
paid or demanded by the Said William Pentlow< no role > as Keeper of
the Said Prison, and also for that it appears ur to the Said Committee
that very many poor Persons are committed to the Said Prison for
divers Petty Larcenies Etc who are never able to pay any thing
upon their Several Discharges, and if any of the Said Persons So
committed as aforesaid do die during their continuance in the Said
Prison upon Such their respective Committments that they are
buried at the Costs and Charges of the Said William Pentlow< no role > as
Keeper of the Said Prison and further it appearing unto the said Comittee
that there is no publick allowance whatsoever for the poor Prisoners
in the said Prison confined, as their is to the several Prisons of
Newgate and Bridewell and other Goals whereby the said William
Pentlow as Keeper aforesaid is frequently in Compassion obliged
to subsist divers Prisoners while in his [..] Custody to prevent
their perishing for Want And that the said Comittee in Consideration
of the abovementioned Premisses and also that it appears that the
several Fees taken by the said William Pentlow< no role > as Keeper of the
said Prison upon the discharge of Prisoners from the said Prison
hath been reduced lower than what was taken heretofore by his
Predecessors in the said Office upon the whole are of Opinion that
an annual Sum of thirty pounds be paid unto the said William