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<p n="173">The Exaiacon of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15018_n173-1">John Eston</rs>
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a prur in her Majties: Goal<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15018_geo172">Newgate</rs>
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for Debt taken before Us her Majties. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15018_occ112">Justices<lb></lb>
of the peace</rs>
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for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15018_geo173">Middx</rs>
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upon oath.</p>
<p n="174">This Exaiate saith That hee hath sent severall Seltors to Mr. Fell<lb></lb>
complaining of severall abuses comitted agt: him & other prurs by<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15018_n174-1">Richard Edwards</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15018_n174-2">Thomas Marsh</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15018_n174-59">Richard Hathesell</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15018_n174-3">Thomas<lb></lb>
Gardner</rs>
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who are comonly called partners & also agt: one <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15018_n174-4">John<lb></lb>
Littlehale</rs>
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for extorting money from prurs at their first coming in<lb></lb>
but could never obtaining any Redress.</p>
<p n="175">That the sd: ptners do receive the Bread & meat sent by the Sheriffs of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15018_geo174">London</rs>
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& others it Charity for Releif of poor prurs for Debt, and<lb></lb>
comonly take halfe, & sometimes more of the same & give some<lb></lb>
the Felons & some they send out at their own discrecon to their<lb></lb>
wives or whores: by which undue practices the poor prurs are<lb></lb>
kept in a starveing Condicon.</p>
<p n="176">That it is a comon practice for <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15018_n176-1">William Robinson</rs>
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one of the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15018_occ113">Turnkeys</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the sd Goal to let in Comon lewd women into the sd: Goal to the<lb></lb>
Felons & other prurs there, & suffer them to ly there whole Nights,<lb></lb>
and that he takes twelve pence a peice of the women holets in<lb></lb>
as aforesaid, by which meanes hee sometimes gots Thirty or Forty<lb></lb>
shillings a week as he supposes & believes.</p>
<p n="177">That severall Theives who have formerly been prurs in the sd: Goal are<lb></lb>
permitted to come in as often as they please, & to ly there severall<lb></lb>
nights & that they being in severall parcells of goods supposed to be<lb></lb>
stollen, which are comonly laid up in Room called the Change & that<lb></lb>
some of the sd: Theives when they have stollen a good Booty, will spend<lb></lb>
their twenty shillings or up wards at a time.</p>
<p n="178">That it is a comon practice of the sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15018_n178-1">Wm: Robinson</rs>
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to be absent from the<lb></lb>
door to which he is <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15018_occ114">Turnkey</rs>
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. three or four houres together soe that the<lb></lb>
Freinds of the prurs who come to see them canot either get out nor could<lb></lb>
in, & at other times the sd Robinson when prsent will not open the door<lb></lb>
at all the requested soe to doe.</p>
<p n="179">That It is also a comon practice when any friends of the Debtors come to<lb></lb>
the Grate to speake with them That the Felons in the sight of the<lb></lb>
partners pick their pocketts & that when this Exaiate hath rebuked<lb></lb>
the partners for suffering such abuses they have asked him<lb></lb>
what it was to him & there at ned to knock him down & that two<lb></lb>
of the partners are Felons.</p>
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