January 1799.

"wished to see the London people I asked him what London
"People', I did not understand him he replied the Prisons
"Confined for Tedition and that he also wished to see the
"Manchester People, I asked which he would see first he
"said the Manchester People I went with him to the
"Manchester people Sir Francis said how are you
"Gentlemen', they answered pretty well much better off
"than they had been, now they had got a Fire; they
"told Sir Francis in what manner they had been
"arrested dragged out of their Houses without a
"Warrant and had been brought heavily Ironed but
"their Irons had been knocked off upon their Arrival,
"at this Prison but they had been put into the Vagrants
"Room this I contradicted saying it was now a
"Store Room where they might have slept well for
"one night having nothing but dry Oakum in it
"I informed Sir Francis that the next day they
""were put into separate Cells and that they had
"Liberty to Walk out two hours every Day We
"then went to the London People (as Sir Francis
"term'd them) with the whole of whom he appeared
"to be well acquinted they calling him by his Name
"and he shaking hands with some of them the
"Persons confined there were Evans Bone Hear
"Roberts and Webb a few Days prior to this visit
"Bone wished to see me I sent for him to the Office
"he said he wanted to write a Letter to the Coroner
"which I permitted him to do, - It Contained [..]
"desire to see the Coroner stating that he had some-
"thing to say to him respecting the Inquest that
"had lately been held before him concerning a
"Vagrant who died a few Days after he was
"brought into the Prison the Coroner came who had
"some Conversation with Bone and Examined