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Jury are not discharged till they have dispatched
the felony Businessbefore them or otherwise might
sit do die in [..] the Year roundThat
he had Inspected the Gaol Delivery Books and
made a Calmeation of the Proportion of Prisrs.
Convicted and of those discharged ansd. he had for the Year
1752andthat theproportier of Middx prisoner has beenupon an Average a fourth Part
of the Middx Prisoners tryed have been
acquaintedAndhebelieves the
Proportion would be about the same if
taken for a number of Years [mark]
Mr. William Pentlow< no role > who had been Keeper
of new Prison Clerkenwell 14 Years
said That Prisrs. are removed from thence
to New gate six days before the Session
Agreeable to the Order made in 1726 that
they remainthenduring the Session whichLasts3 or 4 days

[mark] In Decr. Sess. 1752 there were seventy Prisoners
in the Calender of which 45 were tried 15
Discharged by proclamation with out prosecu-
tion 10 Prosecuted at Hicks Hall and in the City
of London Has Gone [..] the whole Year with
same Manner And there were 680 prisoners of
whichthere176 were discharged by proclamation
176 and about 50 Indicted & tried at Hicks Hall and
(including some removed to other Games charged
with Crimes Committed in other Counties) That of
the remaining 454. that were tried, about 3 fourths
might have been were convicted & one fourth a Committed.