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April 1775
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that can be got and that it be a condition with the Tenant that he do
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supply the prisoners with bread and other Victualers Beer Ale Cyder
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and other exciseable Liquors and shall keep the true Assize in uttering
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the same which Victuals and Liquors shall be of a good Quality and
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shall be sold at reasonable prices and that upon complaint to the
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contrary to the Justices in their General or General Quarter Sessions
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of the peace for this County by the Goaler Prisoners or others properly
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Exhibited and Supported the Tenant shall not have the Liberty of
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serving the prisoners confined in the Goal with Bread or other
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Victuals Beer Ale Cyder or other exciseable Liqours if the Justices
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thereon shall so order the same And the Committee do further
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Recommend it to the Court to allow the Keeper of
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30l. a Year as a Consideration for those advantages which
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he will be deprived of by thus taking the Tap out of the Goal
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The said Committee further Report that it
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having been ordered by the Session that Mr. Rogers Should
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effectually secure the Gateway of the
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Which was reported by this Committee to be in a ruinous condition
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and Mr. Rogers having now reported to this Committee as his
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Opinion that the said Gateway and part of the Wall adjorning or she
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to be taken down and that the Expence of building the necessary brick
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Work and making a New Oak Gate there would not exceed the
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Sum of £60 the Committee recommend that the same be ordered
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accordingly
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And the said Committee do further Report
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That having viewed and Examined the State of
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with the greatest attention it is with mush concern that they are
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induced from actual observation to report that the greatest
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irregularities are created in the Tap Room of the said Prison by
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the numerous admission of various sorts of persons among such
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as are under Confinement and by the improper assemblage of the
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prisoners themselves there wherefore Mr. Rogers was directed to
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Survey the same and report to the Committee whether the Tap
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Room could not be separated from body of the Goal in like manner
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is that at the other Prison and also to lay before the Committee an
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Estimate of the Expence of Making the said Alteration and the
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Committee being of Opinion that some of the front Rooms belonging
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to the said prison next the Street might be easily converted into a
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Tap House Mr. Rogers accordingly Surveyed the same and
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