Offices and the Jurisdictions Attending Attendant thereon in the same Persons so do they make Prison of Newgate which is Situated
in and is properly the Prison of London the Prison of the County of MiddxThat therefore the Custody of Middx Prisoners
is not to be considered as a burthen on the City but as a necessary consequence of their nomination of the same Persons as are
Sheriffs of London to be Sheriff of Middx the Right to which Nomination they must be supposed Originally to have solicited as
they Constantly exercised it and under Colour thereof had for many Years past raised Immense sums-That at the it is now
upwards of 600 Yrs. since the first Building of the said Goal no Attempt had ever been made to charge the County of Middx with
any Expence Attending the same but on the Contrary at a time of Publick Calamity (Vizt) imediately after the dread ful Conflagration
in 1666 when the real Distresses of the Citizens might Oblige them to implore the Aid of Parliament they without any
previous Application to County of Middx Obtained for the purpose of building Prisons for Felons and other Male factors (among
other things) a Grant of a very considble Revenue by a Duty on Coals - That how much so ever Petrs. might be disposed tolament that
not with standing the many Alterations Additions and Improvements that had been made to the said Goal within these few years the same
is still soill constructed close and Incomodious as that the Prisrs. are Subject to disease and tha Prison is become a most-
dangerous Nusance they humbly hoped that the County of Middx was not answerable for any of the bad Consequences of it's Construction
or Situation in as much as the City and not the County hade made it what it was [..] That for the several Reasons therinhavementioned as-
also for divers others of singular weight and Importance which the Petrs. had to Offer they do Denyd that the said Goal ought to be rebuilt
at the Expence of the City of London and County of Middx in any propertion whateverOn the contrary they say Doubt not by the
Aid ofthos HonbleHouse to prove that the City ought of Right and according to the known Principles of Law Reason and natural
Justice werearebound at their sole Expence to rebuild and repair said Goal whenever the same she [..] be necessary