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<p n="1084">To the Honble the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament Assembled</p>
<p n="1085">The Humble Petition of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50547_occ115">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo569">Middx</rs>
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in Session assembled on Behalf of themselves and the Rest of the Inhabitants of the<lb></lb>
said County</p>
<p n="1086"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That your Petitioners Observe by the Votes of this Honble House that a Petition of the Ld. Mayor<lb></lb>
Aldermen and Commons of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo570">City of London</rs>
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in Common Council Assembled hath been lately<lb></lb>
Presented to this Honble House setting forth that the goal of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo571">Newgate</rs>
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is <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo572">the Common</rs>
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Goal for the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo573">City of London</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo574">County of Middlesex</rs>
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that the Prisioners committed thereto have for several<lb></lb>
Years past been communibres Annis near one thousand Persons two thirds of whom have been<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo575">Middlesex</rs>
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Prisoners-That the said Goal is a very ancient ill constructed close and incommodious<lb></lb>
Building and in its present state unfit for the reception of prisoners committed her-That the<lb></lb>
present state and Condition of the said goal merits the attention of the legislature-That upon<lb></lb>
an examination and Survey of the said goal it appears that the same cannot be rendered<lb></lb>
healthy and Commodious without being taken down and rebuilt on a more extended Plan<lb></lb>
and that the Petitioners are ready and willing to do every Thing towards the Promoting<lb></lb>
that Work that on their part can be equitably Expected or required but that the same cannot<lb></lb>
be carried into execution without the aid and Authority of Parliament.</p>
<p n="1087">Your Petitioners on their part humbly beg leave to represent to this Honble. House.<lb></lb>
That the Goal is supposed to have been originally built in the Reign of Thing Henry the<lb></lb>
first or of King Stephen, that is to say, between the years 1100, and 1154, and that the same<lb></lb>
hath been under the sole Government of and hath from time to time some times by express mandate<lb></lb>
from the King been rebuilt repaired Actered and enlarged by the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo576">City of London</rs>
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<p n="1088">That supposing the Number of Prisoners yearly Committed to the said Goal to he as great as is<lb></lb>
alledged and that two thirds of such Prisoners an <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo577">Middlesex</rs>
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Prisoners the latter of whiich positions<lb></lb>
your Petitioners do by no means admit.</p>
<p n="1089">Your Petitioners say that the Number is not greater now but is rather less than it hath been<lb></lb>
for a long Series of years past.</p>
<p n="1090">That the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo578">County of Middlesex</rs>
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have several prisons of their own which they maintain at<lb></lb>
a great expence wherein through the Providence of God and the great Care that hath been constantly</p>
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