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