Middlesex Sessions:
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April 1765

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Have you kept any Accot, of proportion
between themNo

How may are there Committed by Habeas
Corpus in a year ?

Very few- may be 10 or 12.
whether any prisoner ear be committed
by other Magistrates of different Counties
than by Habeas Corpus ?

No.

Are not Many persons Committed for Debts
due to the Gown ?

Yes a fewsome by Hab. Corpus
& some by writ from sheriff of Middlesex .

Do not the Majesty of Debtors soon
remove themselves from Gaol or do they
not immediately ?

Many do but not the Majority.

Have you not a Constant Succession of
Middlesex Prisoners ?

Yes.

Whether prisoners who have been in Exeution

for Debt have a Right to sue for their Goals ?

Yes but they never are abated their
allowance for that.

[To Shos the Gaol Close ill . Constructed, &
incommodoies]

Akerman


The Gaol is very Old.

Is there any Open Area that there may be
a free passage of Air to the Cells & Wards in
the Gaol ?

No Such Thing.

In General are the Wards light ?

Some light - in General dark Telons
side & Common side for Dethors are dark.

a common case in
it Many Houses it
& about at City


In the day Time have they a Suff : Light ?

No-obliged to Use Links & Burner to
go up and down in the Gaol.

Whether the Apartments for the Middlesex
Debtors are Air & Commodious ?

Nor in mony Hons of
[..] in [..] Collers
of good ngate & very
wholsome


There's no free Circulation of Air theres
1 Window in each Ward but no Yard.-?
Speak as to Masr. Side




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