Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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24th February 1763 - 13th January 1774

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perform Religious duty in New Prison 2ndly. That the duty of the said
Chaplain should be as follows, To read the Morning prayer with the
Lilany on Tuesdays and Thursdays in every Week at the hour of Ten in
the Morning To read the Morning prayer every Sunday at 8 O Clock
in the Morning To read the Evening prayer and preach a Term on every
Sunday at Six O Clock in the afternoon To administer the Communion
Monthly on the Third Sunday in every month and also on the great
Festivals to visit the Sick Occasionally read to them the Service appointed
for that purpose and administer the Communion to the Sick when required
3dly. That the Salary for the above Duty to be given to the Chaplain to be
appointed to New Prison should be Fifty Pounds P Annum which
Report being read the Subsequent amendment was proposed that
instead of the Words to administer the Communion "Monthly on the
Third Sunday in every month "and also on the great Festivals" the
following words should be substituted Vizt. "To administer the Communion
on the Sundays immediately before each general removal of the Prisoners to
the different Goals for, Tryal and also on the great Festivals" and being
agreed to It is Ordered that the Report so amended as aforesaid
be and the same is hereby in all things, ratified and confirmed And
immediately afterwards the said Report so ratified and confirmed
as aforesaid was publickly read in Court to the Revd. Mr. Thomas
Richards who at the last Session of the peace holden for this County had
been appointed a Chaplain to New Prison and the said Mr. Richards
now also voluntarily offers as a farther part of his Duty read prayers
once in every Week to the Prisoners confined in the House of Correction

By adjournment same day

At this Court a Report of the Committee of his Majestys Justices of the peace
for the County of Middlesex and for the City and Liberty of Westminster
appointed on the 21st. day of October 1773 to enquire into the Receipt of the Toll
of the Haymarket how the same has been disposed of according to the 8th.
Vg of william the 3d. and every thing relative thereto was made and the
same is as follows Vizt.




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