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about 6. Feet wide and 40. Feet long for
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which the City pay a Rent of £50.-a year
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and that he pays to the City £30,-a year for
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the use of it; that there are about 16. or 17.
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that these Rooms if fitted up
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with Barracks would hold 3. or 4. prisoners
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in a Room and a prisoner not Committed
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for a Capital offence may have a Room to
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{himself if he can pay for it, and that there
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are in all Gaols Appartments appropriated
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for the better sort of Prisoners-That he
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Lets one or two Rooms in the upper part
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of the Gaol on the Master Felons side
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and two on the Master Debtors side
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That there are 8. or 9. Rooms in the press yard
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unfurnished where he puts prisoners for
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8. feet wide & the rem 7. feet
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