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<p n="481">Sessions Home <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50745_geo523">Old Baily</rs>
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18. Sept. 1781.</p>
<p n="482">Sir</p>
<p n="483">Your Letter to us, in answer to ours of this date, we have<lb></lb>
this instant had the honour to receive, and having maturely<lb></lb>
Considered the same, we beg Case to remark to you, that the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50745_geo524">New Prison</rs>
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, and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50745_geo525">Bridewell</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50745_geo526">Clerkenwell</rs>
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, tho in our County, are<lb></lb>
not under our Controul, but that of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50745_occ148">Justices of Peace</rs>
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for the<lb></lb>
County, by whom the Keepers and their Apertants are appointed,<lb></lb>
and we conceive it is the Duty of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50745_occ149">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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, not<lb></lb>
only under the presents Circumstance of the temporary absence of<lb></lb>
the Soldiers during the ensuring Election, but also under every<lb></lb>
other Circumstance that may arise, to take such steps as to<lb></lb>
them shall seem necessary to secure the said Prisons.</p>
<p n="484">We shall therefore rely, on their immediately adopting the<lb></lb>
mors effectual means, for the public safety, in this instance,<lb></lb>
the necessity of which they are certainly fully apprised of, as<lb></lb>
you acquaint us, that it is the opinion of the Justices, that the<lb></lb>
persons employed as Assistants to the Keepers, to take care of the<lb></lb>
said Prisons, will not be sufficient to guard them, and to prevent a<lb></lb>
General escape, were it to be attempted, during the absence of the<lb></lb>
Soldiers more doing duly upon them.</p>
<p n="485">We are</p>
<p n="486">Sir<lb></lb>
Your most obedient and<lb></lb>
most humble Servants</p>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50745_n487-2">Wm. Crichton</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
Sheriffs of<lb></lb>
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<p n="488"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50745_n488-1">William Mainwaring</rs>
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