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<p n="86"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1763.</note>
By Adjournment on Thursday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55605_date16">Fifteenth day of September 1763</rs>
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<p n="87"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order for continuing and<lb></lb>
Electing <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n87-1">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ57">Esqr</rs>
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. Chairman of the Court</note>
His Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ58">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo71">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Assembled<lb></lb>
at this Present General Session of the Peace holden for the said County do <lb></lb>
Continue and Elect <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n87-2">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ59">Esquire</rs>
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to be <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ60">Chairman of the General</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Quarter and General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the same <lb></lb>
County between Michaelmas One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty there<lb></lb>
and Lady-day then next Ensuing</p>
<p n="88"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Report of the Committe<lb></lb>
about Keeper of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo72">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo73">Bridewell</rs>
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}</note>
To the Worshipfull his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ61">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo74">County of Middlesex</rs>
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in their General Session Assembled</p>
<p n="89">The Report of the Committee appointed by Order of the last<lb></lb>
Session to Inquire into the Fitness of the several Candidates for <lb></lb>
the Place of Governor or Keeper of the House of Correction at<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo75">Clerkenwell</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="90"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n90-1">Thomas Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
J.S. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ62">Colepeper</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n90-2">Thos. Niccoll</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n90-3">Jno. Sydenham</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Js. Jalabert<lb></lb>
T. Miller <lb></lb>
J. Girdler<lb></lb>
W. Bayntun</note>
In Pursuance of the Order of Court made at the last Session of the Peace<lb></lb>
your Committee met at the time and place in the said Order Appointed and <lb></lb>
took into their Consideration the matters to them referred and read the Petitions <lb></lb>
of the several Candidates for the Place or Employment of Governor or Keeper of <lb></lb>
the House of Correction at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo76">Clerkenwell</rs>
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in the Room of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n90-4">John Turner</rs>
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late<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ63">Governor</rs>
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or Keeper thereof. namely <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n90-5">Thomas Hopkins</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n90-6">James Elmore</rs>
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, Philip <lb></lb>
Warwick, <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n90-7">William Sheldon</rs>
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. and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n90-8">William Pentlow</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ64">junior</rs>
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, when several of the <lb></lb>
Committee recommended the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n90-9">Thomas Hopkins</rs>
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as a fit Person to be<lb></lb>
Entrusted with the Keeping and Government of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo77">House of Correction</rs>
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<lb></lb>
both in regard to his Honesty Sobriety and Diligence if his other Affairs will <lb></lb>
Admit of his constant Residence in the said Gaol, he having at Present a Place <lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo78">Excise Office</rs>
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and a Bond being always entred into by the Gaoler when Elected <lb></lb>
in the Penalty of Five hundred pounds. One Condition of which Bond is, that he <lb></lb>
will constantly reside in the said Prison and Act himself and not by Deputy, And<lb></lb>
your Committee further report that none of the other Candidates were recommended<lb></lb>
by any of the Gentlemen then present</p>
<p n="91">Your Committee compared the Fees of the two Prisons at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo79">Clerkenwell</rs>
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and are <lb></lb>
of Opinion that the Fees taken at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo80">House of Correction</rs>
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being greater in some <lb></lb>
Articles than those taken at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo81">new Prison</rs>
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for and on Account of the same Matters <lb></lb>
should be reduced and made agreeable in all Respects with those taken at the New<lb></lb>
Prison and that a Table of the Fees should be placed up in each Prison And<lb></lb>
Whereas there has been for some years last past allowed by this County to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ65">Keeper</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo82">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo83">Bridewell</rs>
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a Salary of Fifty pounds per Annum and to the <lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ66">Keeper</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo84">New Prison</rs>
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Twenty pounds per Annum over and above all their other <lb></lb>
Fees and Perquisites and no regular Account having been heretofore kept by <lb></lb>
either of the Gaolers of what their Fees may Annually amount to, your Committe<lb></lb>
are of Opinion that for the future a Book should be kept by each Gaoler with</p>
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