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The Exaiacon of
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John Eston
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a prur in her Majties: Goal
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for Debt taken before Us her Majties.
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Justices
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of the peace
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for the County of
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upon oath.
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This Exaiate saith That hee hath sent severall Seltors to Mr. Fell
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complaining of severall abuses comitted agt: him & other prurs by
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Richard Edwards
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Thomas Marsh
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Richard Hathesell
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Thomas
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Gardner
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who are comonly called partners & also agt: one
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John
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Littlehale
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for extorting money from prurs at their first coming in
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but could never obtaining any Redress.
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That the sd: ptners do receive the Bread & meat sent by the Sheriffs of
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London
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& others it Charity for Releif of poor prurs for Debt, and
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comonly take halfe, & sometimes more of the same & give some
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the Felons & some they send out at their own discrecon to their
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wives or whores: by which undue practices the poor prurs are
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kept in a starveing Condicon.
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That it is a comon practice for
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William Robinson
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one of the
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Turnkeys
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of the sd Goal to let in Comon lewd women into the sd: Goal to the
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Felons & other prurs there, & suffer them to ly there whole Nights,
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and that he takes twelve pence a peice of the women holets in
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as aforesaid, by which meanes hee sometimes gots Thirty or Forty
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shillings a week as he supposes & believes.
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That severall Theives who have formerly been prurs in the sd: Goal are
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permitted to come in as often as they please, & to ly there severall
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nights & that they being in severall parcells of goods supposed to be
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stollen, which are comonly laid up in Room called the Change & that
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some of the sd: Theives when they have stollen a good Booty, will spend
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their twenty shillings or up wards at a time.
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That it is a comon practice of the sd.
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Wm: Robinson
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to be absent from the
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door to which he is
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Turnkey
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. three or four houres together soe that the
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Freinds of the prurs who come to see them canot either get out nor could
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in, & at other times the sd Robinson when prsent will not open the door
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at all the requested soe to doe.
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That It is also a comon practice when any friends of the Debtors come to
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the Grate to speake with them That the Felons in the sight of the
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partners pick their pocketts & that when this Exaiate hath rebuked
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the partners for suffering such abuses they have asked him
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what it was to him & there at ned to knock him down & that two
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of the partners are Felons.
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