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Octr. 18th
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1764.
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Newgate and anod. petition of the Lord Mayer Alderman and Commons of the City of
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in common Counl. Assembled have been lately presented to this Honorable House
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severally setting forth that Newgate is
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Gaol forth
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and County
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of Middx that the Prisoners committed thereto have been Communities Ann is near one
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thousand Persons two thirds of whom have been Middx Prisoners That the said
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Gaol is ill constructed close and Incommodious and unfit for the reception of Prisoners
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That a great number of Prisoners have been usually crowded into the said Gaol
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at the opening of the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol delivery. That the,
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Prisoners in the said Gaol have frequently been visited with a Malignant disease,
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called the Gaol distemper whereby the Health of all Persons resorting to the Sessions
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House must be endangered That the said Gaol is become a most dangerous nusance.
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That the same cannot be rendered healthy and commodious without being rebuilt
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on a more extended plan. That the said Gaol ought to be rebuilt at the Expence of the
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and that the City are ready and willing with
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the Aid and Authority of Parliament to do every thing towards the Promoting that
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work that on their Part can be equitably expected or required
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Your Petitioners on their part humbly beg leave to represent to this Honorable
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House. That the said Gaol is supposed to have been originally built in the Reign of
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King Henry the first or of King Stephen that is to say Between the Years 1500 and
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1154 and that the same hath been under the sole Government of and from time to
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time Rebuilt repaired altered and enlarged by the
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That supposing the number of Prisoners yearly committed to the said Gaol
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to be as great as is alledged (which your Petitioners do by no means admit) and that
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two thirds of them are Middx prisoners your Petitioners say that the Number is
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not greater now than it hath been for a long series of years past. That the County of
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Middx have two Prisons wherein thro. the Providence of God and the great care that
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hath been constantly taken to keep the same clean and to prevent the Accumulation
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of fifth no Malignant disease hath ever yet appeared To which Prisons persons
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for the less atrocious Offences are committed and the sole reason why any Middx
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Prisoners are in Newgate is that the
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do by their Several Charters
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among divers other valuable priviledges and Immunities hold the Shrievalty
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of Middx together with that of
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in Farm and that as they unite,
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those two Several Offices and the Jurisdictions attend out thereon in the
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