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<p n="527">The Petition of the Gibbes <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50675_occ116">Apothecary</rs>
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to the Jails of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50675_geo303">New Prison</rs>
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& Bridewell<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50675_geo304">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<p n="528"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Humbly Sheweth</note>
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<p n="529">That your Petitioner in<lb></lb>
January 1775 was appointed <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50675_occ117">Apothecary</rs>
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to the<lb></lb>
Jails of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50675_geo305">New Prison</rs>
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& <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50675_geo306">Clerkenwell</rs>
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Bridewell; &<lb></lb>
was allowed the yearly Sum of £60 for his<lb></lb>
Attendance & Medicines, & that not with standing<lb></lb>
Your Petitioner found the Trouble and Expence from<lb></lb>
the Number of the Tick exceeded his Expectation, yet<lb></lb>
he conscientiously continued to discharge the Duty of<lb></lb>
the Office to the almost of his Power</p>
<p n="530">That Soon after an Act of<lb></lb>
Parliament passed by which the Punishment of<lb></lb>
Convicts sentenced to Transportation, was changed<lb></lb>
to that of Imprisonment, in Consequence of which<lb></lb>
your Petitioner has had not only the Care of those<lb></lb>
he was first appointed to attend but also of all those<lb></lb>
who from Session to Session have been sentenced to<lb></lb>
Imprisonment in the said Jails; Many of whom come in</p>
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