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<p n="490">By Adjournment on Thursday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55604_date71">11th. Day of<lb></lb>
September 1760</rs>
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<p n="491"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo683">New Prison</rs>
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H. of Correction</note>
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Whereas by Order of Session made the Tenth Day of July last being the<lb></lb>
County Day of the last Session of the Peace for this County) I was referred to this part<lb></lb>
to consider further of the Alterations and buildings at the Goals or Prisons called<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo684">New Prison</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo685">House of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo686">Clerkenwell</rs>
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and how and out of<lb></lb>
what Fund the Money for paying and discharging of the same can be raised and<lb></lb>
directed that the Grand Inquest of this County then Assembled in that Session<lb></lb>
should take a view of the said Goals or Prisons in Order to present his State and<lb></lb>
Condition of the same to that Court and of what was fill to be done in Pursuance<lb></lb>
of the Act of Parliament in that behalf As by the said Order of Court more fully<lb></lb>
Appears Now upon reading of the Presentment of the said Inquest laid before<lb></lb>
this Court by the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55604_occ537">Deputy Clerk of the Peace</rs>
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of this County in Obedience to the said<lb></lb>
Order whereby it stands presented that the said Goals or Prisons respectively<lb></lb>
were out of Repair in Sundry respects and that several Reparations were<lb></lb>
necessary tobe forthwith made therein for the Support of the Buildings and<lb></lb>
Security of the Prisoners And the undermentioned Buildings and Alterations<lb></lb>
are highly necessary and proper tobe made in the said Prisons for the safe and<lb></lb>
well keeping of the Men Prisoners from the Women Prisoners therein and will be a<lb></lb>
great Improvement therto and a great Honour as well as Use and benefit to this<lb></lb>
County as follows vizt. Separations necessary in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo687">House of Correction</rs>
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, To take<lb></lb>
down the Brick Wall which now separates the Keepers Garden from the Yard<lb></lb>
where the Prisoners are promiscuously kept together and remove the same<lb></lb>
about four feet into the said Yard so that the Men and Women Prisoners may be<lb></lb>
kept separate from each other Also to separate the Work Room in the said<lb></lb>
Prison by a Wall or Partition and divide the Gallery over the said work Room<lb></lb>
so that the Men and Women Prisoners may be entirely kept a Sunder That<lb></lb>
the Garden now Occupied by the Keeper of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo688">New Prison</rs>
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be divided by a Wall Cross<lb></lb>
the Same and one part thereof appropriated to the Use of the Keeper of the House<lb></lb>
of Correction And that there be a Room and other necessary Conveniences made<lb></lb>
for the Women in the said Prison And also that the like Division may be made<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55604_geo689">New Prison</rs>
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as in the House of Correction for keeping the Men & Women<lb></lb>
therein confined seperate By Building a Wall Cross the Yard & making such<lb></lb>
other Conveniences therein as shall be necessary And the said Inquest were<lb></lb>
of Opinion that the Repararions and Alterations before mentioned and such others</p>
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