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Sessions Home
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18. Sept. 1781.
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Sir
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Your Letter to us, in answer to ours of this date, we have
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this instant had the honour to receive, and having maturely
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Considered the same, we beg Case to remark to you, that the
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, and
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Clerkenwell
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, tho in our County, are
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not under our Controul, but that of the
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Justices of Peace
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for the
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County, by whom the Keepers and their Apertants are appointed,
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and we conceive it is the Duty of the
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, not
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only under the presents Circumstance of the temporary absence of
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the Soldiers during the ensuring Election, but also under every
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other Circumstance that may arise, to take such steps as to
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them shall seem necessary to secure the said Prisons.
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We shall therefore rely, on their immediately adopting the
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mors effectual means, for the public safety, in this instance,
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the necessity of which they are certainly fully apprised of, as
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you acquaint us, that it is the opinion of the Justices, that the
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persons employed as Assistants to the Keepers, to take care of the
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said Prisons, will not be sufficient to guard them, and to prevent a
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General escape, were it to be attempted, during the absence of the
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Soldiers more doing duly upon them.
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We are
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Sir
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Your most obedient and
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most humble Servants
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Tho Sainsbury
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Sheriffs of
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William Mainwaring
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