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By Adjournment on Friday the
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12th. day of
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The Presentment of the Grand Inquest
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of the
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sworn and charged to Inquire
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for the Lord the King for the Body of the said County at the
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General Quarter Session of the Peace holden for the County
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aforesaid at Hicks Hall in Saint
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in the same
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County on Monday the Seventh Day of July 1760 in the
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thirty forth year of the Reign of King George the Second
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over Great Britain Etc Vizt.
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We having on or taken a View of the State and Condition of the
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two Goals or Prisons called the
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in this County Do find and present that the said Goals
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or prisons respectively are out of Repair in sundry Respects and
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that several Reparations are necessary to be forthwith made therein
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for the support of the Building and Security of the Prisoners And
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we further present that the under mentioned Buildings and
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Alterations are highly necessary and proper to be made in the
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said Prisons for the safe and well Keeping of the Men Prisoners
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therein and will be a great Improvement thereto, and a great Honour
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as well as use and benefit to this County as follows
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Seperations Necessary
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in the House of Correction}
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To take down the Brickwall which now seperates the
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Keeper's Garden from the Yard where the Prisoners are
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promiscuosly kept together and remove the same about Four
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Feet into the said Yard so that the men and Women prisoners
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may be kept seperate from each other
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Also that the Work Room in the said Prison may be
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kept seperated by a Wall or Partition And that the Gallery
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over the said Workroom be divided so that the Men and
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Women prisoners may be intirely kept assunder.
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That the Garden now Occupied by the Keeper of
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be divided by a Wall cross the same And one
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part thereof appropriated to the use of the Keeper of the House
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of Correction And also that there be a Room and other
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necessary Conveniences made for the Women in
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