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22d. Janry 14th. Jan 1st.
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1616
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Counterpart of a Deed between the Said Sir
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Thomas Lake
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and the Said other Justices of the one part and
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George Long
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Gents on the other part, taking Notice, int al, that a house of
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Correction had been built on part of the Great Garden part
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of the Said Estate, and that the Treasurers & other Justices
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appointed to expend the moneys Collected for the purposes
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aforesaid had Disbursed more money than they had or could
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receive, and were Indebted Considerably to workmen, and
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that divers other things were Still necessary and wanting
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to Finish the Said
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house of Correction
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, and that it was
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therefore Ordered by the
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that part of the
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premisses Should be Sold rather than any new Tax be laid
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on the body of the Said County, the Said Sir
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and
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the other Justices did therefore in Consideration of £280. Grant
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Bargain & Sell that part of the Said Estate in the Said Deed
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Particulariz'd to the Said
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George Long
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and his Heirs.
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10 Augst. 17th. Jac. 1st
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1619
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which was about five years after the Purchase from
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the Bedingfields with the County money (that Purchase being
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in the year 1614) King James the 1st. by Letters Patent (reciting
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the Said Former Letters Patent, and that the Said Sessions
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house was accordingly built, but that the Justices finding
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that the Same ground was not large enough for a Sessions
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house and a Prison also, as was Intended, the Justices had
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at the Comon Charge of the County of Middx afterwards
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Purchased another Peice of Ground in the parish of
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Clerkenwell
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in a more Commodious place, and that they had
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Erected thereupon as well as Prison for Malefactors in Cases of
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Trespasses Etc, as a house of Correction for the Said County, the
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Said King granted to Sir Baptist Hicks & other Justices That
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the Said Building So Erected in the Said
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Parish of Clerkenwell
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Should from hence forth be a Prison or Goal for the Safe
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keeping of all Malefactors (other then for Capital Crimes of
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Treason or Felony) thereto be Detained by Such keeper as
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Should be nominated by the
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Justices of peace
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or the
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Greater part of them untill Delivered thence by due
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Coruse of Law.
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In the year 1652
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Which was between 30 and 40 years after the Lease to
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Sir Baptist Hicks and when the Lease to Sir Baptist Hicks
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was expired, and his Covenant to repair the Sessions
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house at an End.
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By Indenture between the Heir of the Surviving Trustee of
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