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The Petition of the Gibbes
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Humbly Sheweth
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That your Petitioner in
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January 1775 was appointed
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Clerkenwell
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Bridewell; &
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was allowed the yearly Sum of £60 for his
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Attendance & Medicines, & that not with standing
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Your Petitioner found the Trouble and Expence from
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the Number of the Tick exceeded his Expectation, yet
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he conscientiously continued to discharge the Duty of
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the Office to the almost of his Power
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That Soon after an Act of
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Parliament passed by which the Punishment of
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Convicts sentenced to Transportation, was changed
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to that of Imprisonment, in Consequence of which
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your Petitioner has had not only the Care of those
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he was first appointed to attend but also of all those
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who from Session to Session have been sentenced to
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Imprisonment in the said Jails; Many of whom come in
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