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<p n="1091">taken to keep the same clean and to prevent the accumulation of Filth no Malignant Disease hath<lb></lb>
ever yet appeared To which prisoners<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
for all but the most atracious Offences are committed and that<lb></lb>
the sole. Reason why any <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo579">Middlesex</rs>
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prisoners at all are in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo580">Newgate</rs>
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is that the Citizens of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo581">London</rs>
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do by their several Charters among divers other Valuable Priviledges and Immunities held the<lb></lb>
Shrievalty of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo582">Middlesex</rs>
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together with that of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo583">London</rs>
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in Farm and that as they Unite<lb></lb>
those two several Offices and the Jurisdictions attendant thereon in the same Person so do they<lb></lb>
make the Prison of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo584">Newgate</rs>
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which is situated in and is properly the Prison of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo585">London</rs>
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a Prison for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo586">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="1092">That therefore the Custody of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo587">Middlesex</rs>
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Prisioners is not to be Considered as a burthen<lb></lb>
on the Citizens but as a necessary Consequence of their Nomination of the same Persons as<lb></lb>
are sheriffs of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo588">London</rs>
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to be Sheriff of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo589">Middlesex</rs>
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the Right to which Nomination could never<lb></lb>
have been forced on them, they must necessarily be supposed originally to have Solicited<lb></lb>
it and the rather as they Constantly exercise it and under Colour thereof have for many years past<lb></lb>
raised immonse Sums in Proof whereof your Petitioners alledge that since the year 1672 the<lb></lb>
Amount of Sheriffs Fines hath been upwards of £148750, a sufficient part whereof your<lb></lb>
Petitioners humbly apprehend might very Properly have been applied by the Citizens for<lb></lb>
the rebuilding of their Goal of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo590">Newgate</rs>
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as it is in Judgment of Law the prison of the<lb></lb>
Sheriffs.</p>
<p n="1093">That although it is now upwards of 600 years since the first Building of the said<lb></lb>
Goal no attempt hath ever been made to Charge the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo591">County of Middlesex</rs>
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with any expence<lb></lb>
attending the same but on the Contrary at a Time of Publick Calamity (Vizt.) immediately<lb></lb>
after the Dreadful Conflagration in 1666, when the real Distresses of the Citizens might<lb></lb>
oblige them to Implore the aid of Parliament they without any Previous application to the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo592">County of Middlesex</rs>
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obtained for the Purpose of Building Prisons for Felons and other<lb></lb>
Malefactors (among other things) a Grant of a very Considerable Revenue by a Duty on Coals<lb></lb>
which hath produced to the city no less a Sum than £736804.</p>
<p n="1094">That how much soever your Petitioners may be disposed to Camont that notwithstanding</p>
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