Middx ss:

Ad General Quarterial Session pacis Dni Regis
tent P Com Middx apnd Hickshall in St. John
Street in Com prd. P adjorn die Jovis Scilt
decimo die July anno regni Dni Georgy Scdi
nunc Regis Magne Britannie Etc tertio
coram Willo Cowper< no role > Robto Thornhill< no role > Johe Milner< no role >
Reginaldo Marriott< no role > Rico Gifford< no role > Aris & al socys suis
Justic dci Dni Regis ad pacem in Com Prd.
conservand necnon ad divers felon tusgr & al
malefacta in codem Com p petrat audiend &
terminand assign Etc

Upon the humble peticon of Joshua Walker< no role >
Keeper of New prison at Clerkenwell in
this County exhibited unto this Court
Setting forth that the petr. on Saturday last [..]
day of July instantwas Served with an Order
of this Court for the payment of twenty pounds
due at Lady day one thousand Seven hundred &
twenty seven as Keeper of the said prison on
account of repairing the same, and alsoe the
like sumo of twenty pounds due at Lady day
one thousand seven hundred & twenty eight
upon the like account to Barwell Smith< no role > Esqr.
on or before the first day of this present Generall
Quarter Sessions of the peace, And that the petr.
on his first entrance on his said Office had the
keeping of Such Prisoners as were comitted to
his custody for felony or suspicon of felony
(unless Indicted) soe that the petr. did then
receive their fees, But by an Order of Court
since made at the Old Baily London the petr.
hath been obliged to deliver such Prisoners
together with the copys of their comittments to
the Keeper of Newgate [..] six days at least before
every Sessions, wherebythe petr, intirely loses
their fees to his great detriment, and is at trouble
& charge of Keeping & maintaining most of them besides
the care & trouble of conveying them to Newgate,
And that the petr. hath for neare two yeares past had
but few other kind of prisoners comitted & brought to
his custody and most of them poor indigent persons whose