Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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14th January 1796 - 18th September 1800

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September 1800.

Mr.. Page the Foreman being together at the Door of the
Crown Tavern on Clerkenwell Green on Friday the 11th.. Inst.
Mr.. Dickie came up and said to Mr.. Page have you seen
such a place in the Prison (mentioning a part of the Prison
the Name of which he did not then recollect Mr.. Page
Answered no, he had not Mr.. Dickie sayd. " Ha," there
"Mr.. Aris has Gammoned you, for you have not seen
"that place which you ought to have seen nor have you
"seen the Man who was obliged to Drink his own Urine
"for want of being Supplied with Water",that he then left
them.

That Mr.. George Lever another Juryman
appeared before your Committee and stated that when
the Jury came out of the Session House Dickie followed them
every Day to the Crown Tavern the first Day he brought
a Paper about the Prison and gave it to the Foremen the
purport of which he did not know and he Corroborated
what Mr. Bourke had said.

That Mr.. Thomas Woodward< no role > Another Juryman
appeared before your Committee and Corroborated what
had been before stated

That Mr.. Abraham Wivell< no role > Another Juryman
appeared before your Committee and stated that on
Tuesday the 2d. day of the Session after the Court had broke up
Dickie came into the Crown Tavern and gave Mr.. Page
a Paper that he asked Mr.. Page to look at it and in it
he found 3. other Papers folded up he opened one of
them and Read it, the Papers stated several Peoples
names who had been ill used in the Prison he then
returned the Paper to Mr.. Page, that Mr.. Dickie
repeatedly called upon the Jury and asked whether they
were satisfied Wivell said that the Jury had Examined
the Prison and Also the Prisoners Publickly and
Privately and that the Prisoners appeared perfectly
Satisfied with their treatment and Allowance that one
of the Prisoners shewed him his Loaf of Bread and laid
him that he had one of those Loaves given him every
Day and Mr.. Wivell said he was sure the Bread was




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