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Continued Thursday 11th. February 1773
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TuesdayandThursdaysTen Ounces when boiled of good Beef without
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BoneOne Winchester Pint of PottageOne Penny Leaf of the best Wheaton
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BreadOne Winchester Quart of good small Beef at Noon and a Pint at
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Night.Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays Three Ounces of Butter,
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or four Ounces of good Cheshire, or Warwickshire Cheese, One Winchester Pint
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of good Milk Pottage and Bread and Beer as on other DaysThat in
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1712 the Worshipful Court settled the Price the Steward should charge for
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each Meal at six Pence which before had been at four PenceThat seen after
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the said
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Robert Waite
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came into Office the Price of Provisions began to rise and
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has continued so rising ever since, in so much that Beef which he Purchased in
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1759 and 1760 for 2d. and 2d ½ P Pound, in the Subsequent Years he
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paid for after the rate of 3½d-4d and 4½d P Pound For Beer from 7s. the
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Barrell to 9s. & 10s.For Cheese from 21s & 25s to 38s-40s & 42s P Hundred
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and for Milk from 1s..6d to 2s.6d. P DozenThat several of the said
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Robert Waited Accounts have been passed and his final Account is now
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preparingThat if in such Accounts the Died of the Prisoners was to be
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charged only after the rate of 6d. for each Meal according to the Order made
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60 Years ago, when Provisions were at a moderate Price, Your Petitioners
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Jane
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as Executrix of her Father would sustain a most considerable loss,
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which Your Petitioners humbly conceive is not your Worships intentions, and
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the Contrary as the Rents of your Estates, have during the time of the said
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Robert Waites
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Stewardship, been Advanced in a great a Proportion, than the
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Price of Provisions Your Petitioners hope and reely on your Worships condenr
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and Justice in ordering that the less by the rise of Provisions shall be borne
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out of those encreased Revenues and not by Your Worships Servant as
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Steward of the HospitalThat the Meal of each Prisoner is weighed and
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measured every Day in the Presence of the Hempdresser and Porters Marrt
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and an Account is kept thereof by the Porter and Matron, and another
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Account is likewise kept by the Steward in a Book which is every Quarter
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chequed and signed by the Porter and Matron before it can be carried up
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to Your Worships Committee, and the Provisions have all along been fairly and
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regularly supplied according to the Order of the Court not withstanding the
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Difference in the Prices relying on your Worships Justice and Goodness
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That Provisions have continued at an Exorhitant Price ever since Your
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Petitioner John has been Elected Steward and therefore praying that
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this Court will take their Case into Consideration and to do therein as they
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shall think just and reasonable. It is Ordered that it be referred to the
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Committee of this Hospital to consider what allowances they shall think
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reasonable to be made to the late Steward, and the Petitioners, and to
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Report the same to the Court.
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