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<p n="187"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1764.</note>
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<p n="188"> <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55605_date37">Octor. 18th</rs>
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<p n="189">Same Prisons so do they make the Prison of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo177">Newgate</rs>
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which is Situate in and<lb></lb>
as properly the Prison of London the Prison of the County of Middx That therefore<lb></lb>
the Custody of the Middx prisoners is not to be considered as a Burthen on the City<lb></lb>
but as a necessary consequence of their nomination of the same persons as are,<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ159">Sheriffs of London</rs>
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to be Sheriff of Middx the right to which nomination they must<lb></lb>
be supposed originally to have solicited as they constantly exercise it and under,<lb></lb>
Colour thereof have for many years past raised immence Sums That altho it is<lb></lb>
now upwards of 600 years since the first Building of the said Gaol no attempt<lb></lb>
hath ever been make to charge the County of Middx with any Expence attending<lb></lb>
the same but on the Contrary at the time of Publick Calamity(viz) Immediately<lb></lb>
after the dreadful conflagration in 1666 when the real Distresses of the Citizens,<lb></lb>
might oblige them to Implore the aid of Parliament they without my previous<lb></lb>
Application to the County of Middx obtained for the purpose of Building Prisons<lb></lb>
for Felons and other Malefactors (among other things) a Grant of a very<lb></lb>
considerable Revenue by a Duty on Coals</p>
<p n="190">That how mach soever your Petitioners may be disposed to Lament<lb></lb>
that notwithstanding the many Alterations additions and Improvements<lb></lb>
that have been made to the said Gaol within these few years the same is still<lb></lb>
so ill constructed close and Incommodious as that the Prisoners are Subject<lb></lb>
to disease and the Prison is become a most dangerous nusance they Humbley<lb></lb>
hope that the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo178">County of Middlesex</rs>
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is not answerable for any of the bad conseqers<lb></lb>
of its Construction or Situation in as much as the City and not the County have,<lb></lb>
made it what it is</p>
<p n="191">That fo: the several Reasons above mentioned as also for divers others<lb></lb>
of Singular wright and Importance which your Petitions have to Offer they do<lb></lb>
deny that the said Gaol ought to be rebuilt at the Expence of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo179">City of London</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo180">County of Middx</rs>
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in any Proportion whatsoever on the Contrary they say and<lb></lb>
Doubt not by the aid of this Honorable House to prove that the City ought of<lb></lb>
right and according to the Known Principles of Law reason and natural,<lb></lb>
Justice are bound at their sole Expence to rebuild and repair the said Gaol<lb></lb>
whenever the same shall be necessary Wherefore your Petitioners most<lb></lb>
humbly pray this Honorable House that they may be heard by themselves<lb></lb>
or their Count against the matters Contained in the two Several Petitions<lb></lb>
so far as the same may any way tend to Impose a charge on the said<lb></lb>
CountyThis</p>
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