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Friday 4th. December 1741.
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OfficersOrders relating 1st
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Resolved and Ordered that two Books be provided (one to be kept by the
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Steward & the other by the Porter) and the Folios Numbered from one to the
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whole number of Folies in each and that at the bottom of the last Felio of
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each book there be wrote in words at length the Number of Folies in the
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whole and subscribed by themselves Examined by us after their having
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Examined it
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O. Acton Steward
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John Standish
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2d.
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That on any Prisoner or Prisoners being Committed by a Warrant from the
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Lord Mayor or any Justice of the Peace that the person receiving time her or them
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do imediately indorse on the back of the Warrant the day and Hour when they
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were received and subscribe their name close under such Indorsement
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3d.
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That the Warrants as they come in be Numbered on the front the first that
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comes to be made Number One and the rest in the Order they shall come
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4th
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That the Porter do enter in his Book the Number of the Warrant the name
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of the Person or persons comitted, by whom, when, on whose Oath and for
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what CauseAnd for all Warrants of Committment which shall come
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in from Eight of the Clock in the Morning untill four of the Clock in
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the Afternoon the Porter having Entered them in his Book do carry them
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by six of the clock the same day or sooner if he can to the Steward to be
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Entred in Like manner by him in his Book and that those Warrants
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be returned by him to the
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Stews
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Porter by Ten of the Clock the next
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Morning or sooner if he conveniently canAnd for all Warrants of
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Committment which shall come in from four of the Clock in the
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Afternoon untill Eight of the Clock the next Morning being Entered in
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like manner by the Porter be carried by him to the Steward by Ten of
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the Clock to be Entered in like manner by him in his Book and that their
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Warrants be returned by him to the Porter by four of the clock Afternoon
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of the same dayAnd that the Porter do carefully file the said
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Warrants in order according to their Number
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5th.
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That a large Margine be in each book to enter by what Authority each
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Prisoner was discharged & if Corrected to be inserted also in the Margine
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6th.
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That a Compleat Kalendar be prepared by the Porter for the
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President
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&
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Treasurer against he sitting of each Court for Tryal of Prisoners containing an
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Account of all Prisoners remaining by order of any former Courts the whole
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number of Prisoners committed by Warrant from the last Court to that and in
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Case any of them have been discharged betwixt the Court days it be said in the
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Margine by whom, And that the Porter have those Discharged ready to produce
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And that the said Kalendars be Examined if night & signed by the Steward
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& Porter asserting they are so
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7th.
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That in Case of Escapes the Quickest Notice be given thereof to the Steward &
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Porter and the best Endeavours used to retake him her or themAnd that
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the
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& Treasurer be acquainted with such Escapes & retaking if they are got again
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8th.
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That the Porter & his Man, the Matron and her Servant, The Beadles,
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Hempdresser & his Servants view the Prisoners well & if they know any of them
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to have been in the Hospital before that they do give an Account thereof to the
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Steward & the Porters that it may be inserted in the Kalender & reced to the Court
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9th.
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And that the Clerk have ready to turn to the Cause of their former
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Committement & the Judgment of the Court thereon.
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1741
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Decr. 5th. dd Copy to Mr. Acton's Maid
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another to Standish
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7th.-dd Copy of 2d. 7th. & 8th drtress
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to the Mations maid Mr. Cox
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Dailington & Brown
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9th.-dd Copy of 2d. 7th & 8th. Articles
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to Morgan R.S
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