Mr B Staled to ye Cr That

About as year ago an Order of Sessions was made
desioning all Justices before whom Vagrants were
brought, to see that such Vagrant was in a state of
health fit to be passed without in dangering life

Notwithstanding which Order the parish officers
continue to gross them in Numbers Many of whom
are so dangerously illg weak: that when in bridewell
they frequenty dare not remove them agreeable to the
pass, but they remain in that Gaol, in the most
deplorable condition of fifth verming de [..] ases for
Weeks, to the great danger of the lives of the other prisoners
by [..] the infection spreading over the Gaol.

That Saturday last 10th of Novber. or Vagrant was sent in
from Shadwell actually Dying, & expired early on the
tuesday morning. his Names John Edwards< no role > ,and it ishis
body after death was full of vermin & every disorder, lookd
like as bag of foull bones coverd with parchment; that
this evil is become so general that it is dangerous for
any person to Attend them & the Apothecary & Nurses
have great [..] necessary trouble for which they have
no satisfaction for these Vagrants are [..] so ill
that they cannot be passed with safety as directed but
lie in this deplora the condition in the gaol weeks Esqr.
excating great trouble to the [..] there, expenc to
the County, [..] highly infection [..] to the gaole [..] therein
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To Make an Order notice receive them in yt State
some times between 20 of 30 at one time always as Dozen.