Hicks Hall the Sum of thirteen Shillings and four pence for two
Years Rent or acknowledgment of the House of Hicks Hall due at
Christmas last, which Said Several and respective Sums last
before mentioned including the Ballance of his last Account
amounts to the Sum of One hundred and Ninety eight Pounds
ten Shillings, And that it also appeared to the Said Committee
that the Said Treasurer has paid and disbursed thereout the Sum
of thirty Seven Pounds twelve Shillings and five pence, And that
the Ballance remaining in his hands is One hundred and Sixty
Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Seven Pence, This Court
upon reading the aforesaid Report and on Consideration had of
the Same Doth Order that the Said Report be and the Same is
hereby confirmed, and that the Ballances mentioned in the Same
Report to be in the hands of the Said Treasurer be placed to Account,
And that a New Rate be made (by virtue of the late Act of
Parliament for the more easy assessing Collecting and levying
of County Rates) for raising the Sum of twelve hundred Pounds
to answer the Ends and Purposes Specified in the Said Report.

By adjornment on Thursday the 17th. Day of January, 1754.

Order for allowing £30.
a year to Mr. Wm. Pentlow< no role >
Keeper of New Prison
to be paid to him by the
Treasurer.}

Whereas William Pentlow< no role > Keeper of New Prison at Clerkenwell
in the County of Middx exhibited his humble Petition to the Court of
General Session of the Peace holden for the Said County by adjornment
on Thursday the Sixth Day of September 1753, complaining of the
great Charge and Expence he is at in performing and executing the
Said Office and Business of Keeper, being obliged to keep Several
Servants in order to Secure Such desperate Persons as are Committed
to his Custody whose Wages amount to more than £50. a year which
being added to the Sum of £20. a year paid by the Petitioner to the
Treasurer of the County for the Repairs of the Said Goal, and ten
Pounds to the Matron of Bridewell , and other incidental Expences
amounting in the whole to at least £100. a year, and other
Hardships therein mentioned, and praying to be relieved in the
Premisses; And Whereas it was by an Order made by the Court of