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July 1800.
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"Recommend Paupers be Allowed Beds and should
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"be Washed and cloathed during their Confinement as they
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"smell very much.
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"That one Cowen an American gave Nicholson a
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"Draft drawn by a Receiver of the Customs at an Out Port
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"for £20: 14. days after Date from the 16th.. January 1800
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"that Nicholson gave him £13. in Bank and Gold since
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"which he has Received no part of the remainder of the
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"ballance but a Pair of Pantaloons value 24sh. Nicholson
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"informed us that it was the Fact that he had another
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"Pair of Pantaloons made for Cowen and would settle
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"with him this Morning.
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"In the Month of October 98. a Handkerchief of
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"mine was lost in the Wash house as I was told which
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"Cost me Seven shillings of which I never could learn
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"any Account of after, by and by I bought one of a Person
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"of the Name of Nash for which I gave four shillings
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"soon after this the Governors Son James demanded the
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"Handkerchief which I had bought since, which it has
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"not been in my power to get either the Handkerchief or
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"the Money I paid for it although he promised the
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"Money at the time.
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"June 2d. 1800."
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Wm. Cheetham
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And your said Committee further Report
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That it appears that occasionally Persons are Committed
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to the House of Correction previous to Trial and who
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have what is called the Prison Allowance of Bread and
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Water only unless the Medical Person attending the
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Prison thinks it necessary to give Orders for their being
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Allowed other Food but that such Prisoners are permitted
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to Receive such Food and provisions as their Friends
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bring them as in the other Goal called
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New Prison
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and
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that Prisoners Friends might see them every Day between
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the Hours of Twelve and two on an Application to a
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Magistrate for Order, and that Orders are constantly
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obtained from
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Hatton Garden
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