April 1782.

A Motion was made that so much of the said Report last
abovementioned be confirmed and the same passing in the Affirmative
It is Ordered that so much of the Report last abovementioned be
confirmed and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed accordingly.

The fourth Article of the said Report being read as follows Vizt.

And the said Committee further Report that having
when into Consideration the order of reference to them made Vizt. To consider
the Report of the Committee appointed to carry into immediate and
effectual Execution the Repair of New Prison and Clerkenwell Bridewell
made to the Court in April Session 1775 and to examine what was the
ancient Fees taken by the Keepers of New Prison and Clerkenwell
Bridewell and whether his Majestys Justices of the Peace have power
to raise or lessen the said Fess "having read the said Report and the
Act of Parliament of the 14th Year of the Reign of his present Majesty
entitled An Act for the Relief of Prisoners charged with Felony or other
Crimes who shall be acquitted or discharged by Proclamation respecting
the payment of Fees to Goalers and giving a Recompense for such Fees
out of the County Rate" and having searched the Records of the Court
from the 7th of James the first the 21st Year of the same Reign it
appears that on the 27th day of February in the 17th Year of the Reign
of King James the first one Lake was appointed to be Keeper of New
Prison taking such Fees as the Lord Chief Justices had appointed that
this Person appeared to have been the first keeper of the said Goal the
Letters Patent constituting New Prison a Goal bearing date the 17th
day of June in the 17th Year of King James the first but it could not
be discovered what those Fees were which the Lord Chief Justice had
appointed that from the 21st. Year of the Reign of James the first to the
Year 1716 no search had been made on account of the confused State
in which the Records in consequence of their having been removed
in so much haste and disorder during the late Riots and the want
of Room for their proper arrangement but from the Year 1716 to the
present time it appeared that many Committees of his Magestys Justices
of the Peace for this County had been appointed to examine and settle
the Fees to be taken by the Keepers of New Prison and the Governor
of the House of Correction and many Ordered for the Keepers to return
the Tables of their Fees appear also to have been made best no.