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<p n="1354"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">January 1779</note>
certain Certificates under the hands of one of the Judges or Commissioner<lb></lb>
appointed for delivering the Goal of Newgate of the Acquittal and discharge<lb></lb>
of great numbers of prisoners at the delivery of the Goal of Newgate charged<lb></lb>
with the perpetration of Offences in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1195">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and claims of<lb></lb>
him the fee of 13s/4d for each prisoner so discharged by virtue of the said Act<lb></lb>
making in the whole a demand of many Hundred Pounds</p>
<p n="1355">The Sessions of General Goal Delivery of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1196">Newgate</rs>
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being a Court of Criminal Jurisdiction are holden for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1197">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1198">Justice Hall</rs>
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in the Old Bailey in the Suburbs of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1199">City of<lb></lb>
London</rs>
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under a 'Special Commission directed to the Lord Mayor of London<lb></lb>
some of the Judges of the one Bench or the other or the Barons of the<lb></lb>
Exchequer and others The Grand Jury however before whom all Bills of<lb></lb>
Indictment for the Trial of those Committed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1200">Newgate</rs>
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for offences perpetrated<lb></lb>
in the County must be preferred are the Grand Jury of the Sessions of the<lb></lb>
peace for the said County Convened under the precept issued for holding those<lb></lb>
last mentioned Sessions sit at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1201">Hicks Hall</rs>
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within the said County and<lb></lb>
have no communication with the Session of Goal Delivery of Newgate<lb></lb>
such Bills of Indictment as are found by them for Grand Larceny or<lb></lb>
other Capital Offence as well as those as are returned ignoramus for the<lb></lb>
like offences are sent from the Sessions of the peace to the Session of Goal<lb></lb>
Delivery at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1202">Old Bailey</rs>
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and the Sessions of the peace are Generally<lb></lb>
holden at the same time as those for the delivery of the Goal of Newgate<lb></lb>
Those prisoners charged with the commission of offences within the<lb></lb>
County tried at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1203">Old Bailey</rs>
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are tried before a Jury Summoned from<lb></lb>
within the County</p>
<p n="1356">Your Opinion is therefore desired upon the following<lb></lb>
Queries Vizt.</p>
<p n="1357">First whether as the Goal of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1204">Newgate</rs>
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is situate within the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1205">City of<lb></lb>
London</rs>
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and wholly under the management of the Corporation<lb></lb>
of that City and the keeper appointed and paid by them and<lb></lb>
under their Control and the prisoners therein as well for the City as<lb></lb>
the County Supported and kept at their Expence and as the Court<lb></lb>
holding Criminal Jurisdiction by whom these prisoners are tried<lb></lb>
and discharged is holden in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1206">City of London</rs>
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which City does<lb></lb>
not pay to the Rates of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1207">County of Middlesex</rs>
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but has a<lb></lb>
district Stock of its own the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1208">County of Middlesex</rs>
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so circumstanced<lb></lb>
comes within the meaning of this Act</p>
<p n="1358">I am of Opinion that the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1209">County of Middlesex</rs>
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notwithstanding the peculiar<lb></lb>
Circumstances and Objections Stated is within this Act of parliament</p>
<p n="1359">Secondly</p>
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