By Adjournment on Thursday the 11th. Day of
September 1760

New Prison &
H. of Correction

Whereas by Order of Session made the Tenth Day of July last being the
County Day of the last Session of the Peace for this County) I was referred to this part
to consider further of the Alterations and buildings at the Goals or Prisons called
the New Prison and House of Correction at Clerkenwell and how and out of
what Fund the Money for paying and discharging of the same can be raised and
directed that the Grand Inquest of this County then Assembled in that Session
should take a view of the said Goals or Prisons in Order to present his State and
Condition of the same to that Court and of what was fill to be done in Pursuance
of the Act of Parliament in that behalf As by the said Order of Court more fully
Appears Now upon reading of the Presentment of the said Inquest laid before
this Court by the Deputy Clerk of the Peace of this County in Obedience to the said
Order whereby it stands presented that the said Goals or Prisons respectively
were out of Repair in Sundry respects and that several Reparations were
necessary tobe forthwith made therein for the Support of the Buildings and
Security of the Prisoners And the undermentioned Buildings and Alterations
are highly necessary and proper tobe made in the said Prisons for the safe and
well keeping of the Men Prisoners from the Women Prisoners therein and will be a
great Improvement therto and a great Honour as well as Use and benefit to this
County as follows vizt. Separations necessary in the House of Correction , To take
down the Brick Wall which now separates the Keepers Garden from the Yard
where the Prisoners are promiscuously kept together and remove the same
about four feet into the said Yard so that the Men and Women Prisoners may be
kept separate from each other Also to separate the Work Room in the said
Prison by a Wall or Partition and divide the Gallery over the said work Room
so that the Men and Women Prisoners may be entirely kept a Sunder That
the Garden now Occupied by the Keeper of New Prison be divided by a Wall Cross
the Same and one part thereof appropriated to the Use of the Keeper of the House
of Correction And that there be a Room and other necessary Conveniences made
for the Women in the said Prison And also that the like Division may be made
in New Prison as in the House of Correction for keeping the Men & Women
therein confined seperate By Building a Wall Cross the Yard & making such
other Conveniences therein as shall be necessary And the said Inquest were
of Opinion that the Repararions and Alterations before mentioned and such others