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<p n="790">Have you ever known any Inconveniencies<lb></lb>
to the prisoners at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo466">Hicks's hall</rs>
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in Consequence<lb></lb>
of that Order?</p>
<p n="791">There have been Objections made to it<lb></lb>
by reason of it's ill tendency in some particulars<lb></lb>
-Remonstrances I beleive have been made<lb></lb>
to the Court at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo467">Old Bailey</rs>
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& to the Judges<lb></lb>
either to reseind or relax the Order and<lb></lb>
Beleive in Consequence of such Applications<lb></lb>
it has been dispensed with occasionally<lb></lb>
so far as to the Time and as long as the Grand<lb></lb>
Jury has been sitting.</p>
<p n="792">Whether the Instances are frequent for<lb></lb>
keeping the prisoners back?</p>
<p n="793">Yes-frequently.</p>
<p n="794">What particular reasons have been given<lb></lb>
for it?</p>
<p n="795">I don't know particularly.</p>
<p n="796">What reason for dispensing with the Order?</p>
<p n="797">By reason of the Inconvenience of Prisoners<lb></lb>
remaining in Gaol tile the next Sessions, &<lb></lb>
the Number of prisoners; that the Indictments</p>
<p n="798">Could.</p>
<p n="799">Could not be prepared & got ready-when a<lb></lb>
Number of prisoners are before the Grand Jury<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo468">Middlesex</rs>
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they have a great deal of Business<lb></lb>
& the Court does dispence with that Order.</p>
<p n="800">Does it not generally happen that all the<lb></lb>
Indictments are prepared ready for the Grand<lb></lb>
Jury to present to the Judges?</p>
<p n="801">There are 2 Clerks of Indictment at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo469">Hicks's<lb></lb>
Hall</rs>
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-they attend the Sessions of the peace &<lb></lb>
Oyer and Terminer which begin the 2d. day at<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo470">Old Baily</rs>
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Session-the practice is to forward<lb></lb>
the Felony Bills as fast as bespoke giving<lb></lb>
them the preference of Misdemeanor Bills<lb></lb>
Felony Bills when returned into Court are sent<lb></lb>
to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo471">Old Bailey</rs>
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as soon as that Session opens<lb></lb>
or else the preceeding day to the Officer that<lb></lb>
attends that Court the Sessions of the peace<lb></lb>
& Oyer & Terminer continue Sitting during<lb></lb>
the Gaol Delivery the Jury return the<lb></lb>
Bills into Court as they find them 2 or 3<lb></lb>
Times</p>
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