April 1775

that can be got and that it be a condition with the Tenant that he do
supply the prisoners with bread and other Victualers Beer Ale Cyder
and other exciseable Liquors and shall keep the true Assize in uttering
the same which Victuals and Liquors shall be of a good Quality and
shall be sold at reasonable prices and that upon complaint to the
contrary to the Justices in their General or General Quarter Sessions
of the peace for this County by the Goaler Prisoners or others properly
Exhibited and Supported the Tenant shall not have the Liberty of
serving the prisoners confined in the Goal with Bread or other
Victuals Beer Ale Cyder or other exciseable Liqours if the Justices
thereon shall so order the same And the Committee do further
Recommend it to the Court to allow the Keeper of New prison at
Clerkenwell 30l. a Year as a Consideration for those advantages which
he will be deprived of by thus taking the Tap out of the Goal

The said Committee further Report that it
having been ordered by the Session that Mr. Rogers Should
effectually secure the Gateway of the House of Correction at Clerkenwell
Which was reported by this Committee to be in a ruinous condition
and Mr. Rogers having now reported to this Committee as his
Opinion that the said Gateway and part of the Wall adjorning or she
to be taken down and that the Expence of building the necessary brick
Work and making a New Oak Gate there would not exceed the
Sum of £60 the Committee recommend that the same be ordered
accordingly

And the said Committee do further Report
That having viewed and Examined the State of Clerkenwell Bridwell
with the greatest attention it is with mush concern that they are
induced from actual observation to report that the greatest
irregularities are created in the Tap Room of the said Prison by
the numerous admission of various sorts of persons among such
as are under Confinement and by the improper assemblage of the
prisoners themselves there wherefore Mr. Rogers was directed to
Survey the same and report to the Committee whether the Tap
Room could not be separated from body of the Goal in like manner
is that at the other Prison and also to lay before the Committee an
Estimate of the Expence of Making the said Alteration and the
Committee being of Opinion that some of the front Rooms belonging
to the said prison next the Street might be easily converted into a
Tap House Mr. Rogers accordingly Surveyed the same and