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