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see forward.
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Not very often for the Court of
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Aldermen & Sheriffs are very
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attentive to that Contract
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More are discharged in a day or two
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or removed to Fleet or Kings Bench
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Because of the detested name of the Gaol.
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Still he has fees for Debtors & for Libty of
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Press yard
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His Salary of £13. P Ann working it comenced in 1756.
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and Accot. Markd (H).
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Vid. Comon Council's Report in 1755-One died.
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One of the Neighbours,
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Geo Townsend
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an old
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Man was produced last Session, to shew the
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Neighbourhood found it offensive
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By Warrt.
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vid antea
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The Case of Many other Gaols.
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and yet the repairs and alterations since
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the great Fire have cost the City near £30,000
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vid. Accots. mked 4 & 10.
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The Masters side Debtors will alone hold 30.
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Many Dark Stair cases is private Houses.
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Prisoners
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for Transportation are taken away
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of 4 Stated times in the year24
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remain from 2 to 3 Months-It often
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happens that they wait a 3d Session24
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Middx
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prisoners for
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Debtors remain
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the year round24
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Believes
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Middx Debtors from 15. & 20
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to one of
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London
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Drs.
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Average the year thro' upon the whole
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prisrs Midd. 3 & 4 to 1. of London
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City allow £200. P ann in lieu of Fees 24
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Believes ventilater put up in 1753
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of ye Works
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Remembers a talk (when put up) of Sen
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being taken very ill & dying-they found
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out Air. Servts & neighbours have give
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Same Accot. ever since.25
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produced accot. of Comitments from 1753.
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Prisoners from all parts of the kingd. includ.
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Kept no accot. of proportoins
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Ten or 12. a year only comitted by Ha Cor.
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a few for Debts to the Crown some by Ha
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and some by wit from Sheriff of Middx
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Many Debtors (but not Majority) Elmove themselves from
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Newgate
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immediately
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Have a constant succession of
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Middx
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Pe
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Debtors in execution have a right to sue for
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their groats, but allowd. not abated for the
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27
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Gaol is very old
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no open area that there may be a free pass
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of Air to the Cells & Wards
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Some Wards light-in gennal Dark
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Felons Side &
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Comon Side Debtors}
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Dark obliged to use
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links & buiners to go
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up & down.
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Middx Debtors (Mars side) One Window in each Ward
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no yard.
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Comon side not so light two links &
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Burners to go up & down Stairs 28
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Felons Side the same exceptm. press yard
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theres a little light in one Stair case
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There's a piece of Ground on the West side the Gaol at the
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upper end of
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Old Bailey
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about 70 yards in length and a good
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Width, belonging to the City on which an area
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hath been proposed to be made and in the
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front of this Ground there's a Middle Row of
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Buildings which the City are impowerd to
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remove-N B. the press yard is on the
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East Side and has tolerable Air considering
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it a Gaol.
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By this means the more healthy part of
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Gaol is generally unoccupied.
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About the year 1728 the City took some Ground
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or
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Old Buildg
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adjoyning east to the press yard of
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Newgate
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and thereon built Cells and besides these a House
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for the Ordinary, and also some appartments which
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to reimburse themselves they let out again to the
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Keeper vid Accot. Mark'd (I)
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2. is not this a Contradictionr. for it
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seems agreed that cleanliness is ever
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sought, for avoiding Contagion and the
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report of their own comittee Speaks it
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And in Order, to
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Keep 'em
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clean distribute 'em
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and does so when sick
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This seems a contradiction of the fore-
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going assertion
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universally so in all
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places
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This assertion alone sufficient
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to deter the parties from Curying
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£50,000 in any part of the City or Subs.
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now so environ'd with Buildings.
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Formerly keepers pd. for Ordinary Repairs
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This seems to have been a materials
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Complaint and engaged the Attention of the
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not any place where prisoners may air
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themselves-In press yard a place abt.
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6. feet Wide & 40 long28
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This Distinction seems to be the bane of the Prison. If pay may go into Rooms in press yard
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there aid abt. 16 or 17. rooms-will hold 3
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on 4 Psons each.
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It agt. Many Prisoners all the apartmts.
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are used, if a few, keep them in lower
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part of Gaol for security
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Pays City £30. a year, City pay £50. 29:
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All the rooms in the upper part are fitted
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up & ready for reception of Prisrs.
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Never had so many but room suffict.
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but when agt. member Gaol is sickly
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from smallness of the space of Ground,
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the Want of an Area & free circulation
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If Prisrs distributed in the rooms of
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the press yard as well as other parts
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dont imagine but would be as sickly.
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When I have an oppertunity I distribute
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'em when sick
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Gaol most sickly when full In the
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{Middle of Winter & in damp weather &
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Middle of Summer they are most so 30
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Apprehends sickness may in part proceed
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from the Situation of
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Newgate
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in the Middle
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of the Town & part from being so irregular
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Built & want of air.
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Lets not above 1 or 2. rooms in upper
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part of Gaol on Mar. side felons & about
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2 on Drs.
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have frequently had prisoners if they wod.
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have paid me I could not trust.
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Being askd at whose expence Gaol is
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clean'd I pay scavenger for taking dirt
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got together by Sweeping & Scraping-I pay
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for no repaire
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<
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Clearing Boghouses are pd. for by City
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they frequently run over.30
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