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<p n="1515">Letters Patent under Our Great Seal of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo760">England</rs>
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bearing date the 7. day of June in the seventh<lb></lb>
Year of Our Reign of England Etc. give and<lb></lb>
grant unto Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50547_n1515-1">Thomas Lake</rs>
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the Custos Rotulorum<lb></lb>
of the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo761">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Sir William</p>
<p n="1516"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50547_n1516-1">Wade</rs>
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Knight then Lieutenant of Our <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo762">Tower<lb></lb>
of London</rs>
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Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50547_n1516-4">Lewis Lewkenar</rs>
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Knight Sir<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50547_n1516-2">Thomas Fowler</rs>
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Knight Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50547_n1516-6">George Toppyn</rs>
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Knights Clerk of Our Crown and <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50547_n1516-3">Henry Spiller</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50547_occ134">Esquire</rs>
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now Knight and to divers others then<lb></lb>
Justices of peace in and for the said County and to<lb></lb>
their Heirs forever a certain piece of ground lying<lb></lb>
and being in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo763">High Street</rs>
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of Saint John's in the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo764">County of Middlesex</rs>
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commonly called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo765">Saint<lb></lb>
in St. John's Street</rs>
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containing in lenght two and thirty<lb></lb>
feet of Assize and in breadth One hundred and twenty<lb></lb>
feet of assize for Erection and Building thereupon<lb></lb>
as well of a Session House for publique<del>House</del>
use of<lb></lb>
Administring Justice in the said County as<lb></lb>
of</p>
<p n="1517">"of a Prison House or Gaol for imprisonment restraining<lb></lb>
"from Liberty sundrie kinds of Male factors in Cases of<lb></lb>
"Trespasses breach of the peace and other behaviours the<lb></lb>
"number whereof did so increase as the Our Common<lb></lb>
"Gaol of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo766">Newgate</rs>
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was not large enough or sufficient to<lb></lb>
"receive and datayne them with convenience"</p>
<p n="1518">Mr Ford being further Examined said That he<lb></lb>
consider'd <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo767">Newgate</rs>
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in some respects as a Common Goal<lb></lb>
for the whole Kingdom-That Prisoners are frequently<lb></lb>
brought to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo768">Newgate</rs>
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to be tried in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo769">Middlesex</rs>
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pursuance<lb></lb>
to several Acts of Parliament for Offences committed<lb></lb>
in other Counties-That the Secretaries of State, both<lb></lb>
Houses of Parliament The Commissioners of the Navy<lb></lb>
and Excise commit persons there and Smugglers<lb></lb>
Rebels and Offenders upon the High Seas are committed<lb></lb>
thither and Tried before the Kings Commissioners<lb></lb>
specially appointed by His Majesty by Virtue of a<lb></lb>
Statute of King Henry the 8th. and there are Orders</p>
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