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to Lords and others (which have Goals) their Franchise in this Case. And
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that the said Committe were of Opinion that
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Goals for the
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those of the Gatehouse and
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are for the City and
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, and that committing Persons for Offences arising
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in any Parishes in the said County to the
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by any
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Magistrate of this County the said Committee apprehended was contrary to
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Law and greatly injurious to the Liberty and properly of his Majestys
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Subjects for the following reasons
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Vizt.
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First. That Persons thus committed for Offences arising in the County at
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large which are by Law bailable are deprived of their right of being bailed
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and discharged by the Justices in the Commission for the County only, as such
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Justices have not any Jurisdiction over the Goals of the City of
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and thus the Bail and Discharge of Persons so committed becomes
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attached to the Justices who are in the Commission for both the County and the
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said City and Liberty.
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2d.
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That it deprives the Clerk of the peace and the Keepers of the Goals of
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this County of the Fees they intitled to by Law from Persons committed to
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the County Prisons.
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3d.
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That the Fees of the Gatehouse are more than double those of New
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Prison which renders it extreamly appressive to the Poor who are unable
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to obtain Bail.
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4th.
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That every Person committed to Prison is by Law intitled to their
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discharge at the Goal Delivery, where no Prosecution is commenced, or
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the Indictment is returned by the Jury Ignoramus, or Articles of the
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Peace not exhibited, or refused by the Court, unless special Cause be
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shown by the Court. And there being only four Goal Deliverys in the year
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and double that Number in the County, persons comitted
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for Offences done in the County are
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subjected to lay double the time in Prison which Oppression too often
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their Familys upon the Parish And in Case of Persons thus
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committed for Misdemeanors done in the County, as they are not triable
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, such Persons must be removed to Newgate which is an
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Act of cruelly to the Prisoner and putts the Prosecutor to difficulty
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and expence whereas if such Prisoners had been committed to the Goal of
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they then would be in the
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of the Court, And this was the Case of one
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Judith Kyley
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the
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last Sessions who being committed by Mr. St. Lawrence to the
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for a Misdemeanor committed in the County was removed
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from thence to Newgate
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