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<p n="808"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">October 1777</note>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo809">New prison</rs>
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was in want of a Chalice a Table some Table Cloths and<lb></lb>
Napkins for the Celebration of the Communion and that some more<lb></lb>
Books of Common prayer with the Singing Psalms annexed were wanting<lb></lb>
for the Use of the prisoners It is the Opinion of the Committee that<lb></lb>
twelve Books of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo810">the Common</rs>
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prayer with the Singing psalms annexed a<lb></lb>
Ten Chalice a Table Two decent Table Cloths and four napkins be forthwith<lb></lb>
procured for the said purposes and that the said things be delivered into the<lb></lb>
Care of the Keeper of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo811">New prison</rs>
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and that he do take Need to have the Linen<lb></lb>
Washed when necessary</p>
<p n="809">The said Committee further Report<lb></lb>
that having taken into Consideration so much of the Act of parliament<lb></lb>
made and passed in the Sixteenth Year of his present Majestys Reign<lb></lb>
Instituled "An Act to Authorise for a limited time the punishment by hard<lb></lb>
"Labour of Offenders who for certain Crimes are or shall become liable to be<lb></lb>
"Transported to any of his Majestys Colonies or Plantations" as respects the<lb></lb>
preparing the House of Correction for the reception of such Offenders and<lb></lb>
for their Employment Regulation and Government and it appearing to the<lb></lb>
Committee from the Examination of Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n809-1">Edward Hall</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ327">Governor</rs>
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of the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo812">House of Correction</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo813">Clerkenwell</rs>
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that at present there is no place within<lb></lb>
the said Prison capable of holding or suited to the Employment of the said<lb></lb>
Convicts seperate from the prisoners pursuant to the directions Contained<lb></lb>
in the said Act It is the Opinion of this Committee from the<lb></lb>
number of Convicts which have received sentence under the said<lb></lb>
Act and are already Confined in the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo814">House of Correction</rs>
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that proper<lb></lb>
accomodations ought forthwith to be made in the said prison for the<lb></lb>
Confinement and Employment of the said Convicts pursuant to the<lb></lb>
directions contained in the said Statute and that proper Erections and<lb></lb>
accommodations for the present may be Easily and fitley be made for the<lb></lb>
Confinement and Employment of the said Convicts behind the present<lb></lb>
prison in the Garden belonging to the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo815">House of Correction</rs>
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<p n="810">The said Committee Report that for<lb></lb>
rendering the House of Correction more Secure against the attempts of the<lb></lb>
Convicts therein Confined they have ordered proper Iron Spikes to be fixed<lb></lb>
upon the Cross Wall in the said prison which has lately been repaired and<lb></lb>
also have given directions for the Repair of the Gates in the said Wall under<lb></lb>
the inspection of the Committees <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ328">Surveyor</rs>
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<p n="811">The Committee do also further Report that<lb></lb>
having reassumed the Consideration of letting the Tap at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo816">Clerkenwell<lb></lb>
Bridewell</rs>
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