Middlesex Sessions:
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14th January 1796 - 18th September 1800

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September 1800.

Prisoners all appear Healthy, Hearty and well and that
the appearance does not in any Degree correspond with
the Description given of it by Dickie and that they were
perfectly convinced that the Grievances and complaints
stated by Dickie were unfounded.

That Mr.. Swan one of the Jurymen informed
your Committee that William Jones< no role > one of the Mutineers
told him that he had several times been struck by a
Turnkey and been used very ill, but that he had not been
ill used since the business was Examined some time
since in the House of commons that when he first went
to see Jones this day he was lying upon the Bed as if the
was ill and weak, but that when he went again he
found him walking about the yard with other Prisoners
and seemingly very well, Mr.. Swan further stated that
he had particularly Examined the Beds and found
them perfectly clean and in Good Order.

That Mr.. W; Hubbard Another of the Jurymen
stated That William Jones< no role > the Mutineer told him that
Luke Early< no role > , died of Starvation and that there was not
a proper Jury upon the Body and Thomas Linwood< no role >
died of the same That Joseph Hudson< no role > one of the
Mutineers said he was used very ill by the Turnkey's
ever since he had been here and that William Price< no role >
one of the Servants of the Prison was the Cause of Luke
Earleys Death by stopping the County Allowance and
that there was not a Fair Jury upon the Body
that Thomas Linwood< no role > was very ill treated by the
Doctor when Dying that he beg'd the Governor to
have his Irons knocked off, which was Denied him
when he was near Deaths Door, that a Prisoner
named Henry Woolf< no role > said that his Sister had left 3s./6d.
for him with the Governors Son Charles which he
had never Received that Ann Hart< no role > complained
that she is not Allowed to have Tea and Sugar
which her Friends would bring her because she
receives the County Allowance that the whole of the
other Prisoners say they have no complaint to make
and are well treated.

That Mr.. Bourke Another Juryman stated that




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