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loses their Fees to his great detriment, and is at
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the trouble and charge of keeping and maintaining
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most of them besides the Care and trouble of Conveying
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them to Newgate, And that the Petitioner hath for
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near Two Yeares past had but few other kind of
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Prisoners Committed and brought to his Custody &
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most of them poor indigent Persons whose Fees he
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not only loses but must maintaine them, and often times
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small Children brought with them, dureing their
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Confinement, In so much that the Petitioner doth not
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receive by the Profits ariseing or accrewing to him
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by Vertue of his said Office Soe much as pays the
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necessary Charge of House keeping, Maintaining
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and the poor Prisoners, paying for the
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Water and Small Repaires, finding comon necessarys
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carrying the dirt away, and other incident Charges
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belonging to the said Prison (the truth whereof the
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Petitioner is ready to testify upon Oath if required)
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All which readers the Petitioner uncapable of paying
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the Yearly Sumes of Twenty Pounds and Ten Pounds
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charged on the Petitioner on his first entrance of the
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said Office, And the Petitioner therefore prayed that
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this Court will be pleased to take the Premisses
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into Consideration, and grant him such Reliefe as to
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this Court shall Seem meet, And it appearing to
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this Court that an Order was made at the Generall
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Sessions of the Peace holden for this County by
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adjornment on Thursday the Twenty Second day of
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May now last whereby It was Ordered that the
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Petitioner should on or before the Seventh day of
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July instant pay unto
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Barwell Smith
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for the Yeare one thousand seven hundred
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and twenty eight for maimed Soldiers and Mariners
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within the Hundreds of
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Gore
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in the said County the Sume of Twenty Pounds due from
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the Petitioner and payable at Lady day One Thousand
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seven hundred and twenty Seven as Keeper of New
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aforesaid on Account of Repairing the Same,
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