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