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<p n="262">to Lords and others (which have Goals) their Franchise in this Case. And<lb></lb>
that the said Committe were of Opinion that <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo409">the Common</rs>
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Goals for the<lb></lb>
County are those of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo410">Newgate</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo411">New Prison</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo412">Clerkenwell Bridewell</rs>
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, as<lb></lb>
those of the Gatehouse and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo413">Tothill Fields</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo414">Bridewell</rs>
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are for the City and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo415">Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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, and that committing Persons for Offences arising<lb></lb>
in any Parishes in the said County to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo416">Goals of Westminster</rs>
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by any<lb></lb>
Magistrate of this County the said Committee apprehended was contrary to<lb></lb>
Law and greatly injurious to the Liberty and properly of his Majestys<lb></lb>
Subjects for the following reasons</p>
<p n="263"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Vizt.</note>
First. That Persons thus committed for Offences arising in the County at<lb></lb>
large which are by Law bailable are deprived of their right of being bailed<lb></lb>
and discharged by the Justices in the Commission for the County only, as such<lb></lb>
Justices have not any Jurisdiction over the Goals of the City of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo417">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and thus the Bail and Discharge of Persons so committed becomes<lb></lb>
attached to the Justices who are in the Commission for both the County and the<lb></lb>
said City and Liberty.</p>
<p n="264"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">2d.</note>
That it deprives the Clerk of the peace and the Keepers of the Goals of<lb></lb>
this County of the Fees they intitled to by Law from Persons committed to<lb></lb>
the County Prisons.</p>
<p n="265"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">3d.</note>
That the Fees of the Gatehouse are more than double those of New<lb></lb>
Prison which renders it extreamly appressive to the Poor who are unable<lb></lb>
to obtain Bail.</p>
<p n="266"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">4th.</note>
That every Person committed to Prison is by Law intitled to their<lb></lb>
discharge at the Goal Delivery, where no Prosecution is commenced, or<lb></lb>
the Indictment is returned by the Jury Ignoramus, or Articles of the<lb></lb>
Peace not exhibited, or refused by the Court, unless special Cause be<lb></lb>
shown by the Court. And there being only four Goal Deliverys in the year<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo418">Westminster</rs>
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and double that Number in the County, persons comitted<lb></lb>
to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo419">Goals of Westminster</rs>
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for Offences done in the County are<lb></lb>
subjected to lay double the time in Prison which Oppression too often<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo420">throws</rs>
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their Familys upon the Parish And in Case of Persons thus<lb></lb>
committed for Misdemeanors done in the County, as they are not triable<lb></lb>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo421">Westminster</rs>
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, such Persons must be removed to Newgate which is an<lb></lb>
Act of cruelly to the Prisoner and putts the Prosecutor to difficulty<lb></lb>
and expence whereas if such Prisoners had been committed to the Goal of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo422">New prison</rs>
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or <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo423">Clerkenwell Bridewell</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55604_geo423" type="placeName" value="Clerkenwell Bridewell"></interp>
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they then would be in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ324">Custody</rs>
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of the Court, And this was the Case of one <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55604_n266-1">Judith Kyley</rs>
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the<lb></lb>
last Sessions who being committed by Mr. St. Lawrence to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo424">Gatehouse</rs>
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for a Misdemeanor committed in the County was removed<lb></lb>
from thence to Newgate</p>
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