The Petition of the Gibbes Apothecary
to the Jails of New Prison & Bridewell
Clerkenwell

Humbly Sheweth

That your Petitioner in
January 1775 was appointed Apothecary to the
Jails of New Prison & Clerkenwell Bridewell; &
was allowed the yearly Sum of £60 for his
Attendance & Medicines, & that not with standing
Your Petitioner found the Trouble and Expence from
the Number of the Tick exceeded his Expectation, yet
he conscientiously continued to discharge the Duty of
the Office to the almost of his Power

That Soon after an Act of
Parliament passed by which the Punishment of
Convicts sentenced to Transportation, was changed
to that of Imprisonment, in Consequence of which
your Petitioner has had not only the Care of those
he was first appointed to attend but also of all those
who from Session to Session have been sentenced to
Imprisonment in the said Jails; Many of whom come in