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<p n="1612"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">4<lb></lb>
4</note>
<lb></lb>
Jury are not discharged till they have dispatched<lb></lb>
the felony Business<del>before them or otherwise might<lb></lb>
sit do die in<obscured></obscured>
the Year round</del>
That<lb></lb>
he had Inspected the Gaol Delivery Books and<lb></lb>
made a Calmeation of the Proportion of Prisrs.<lb></lb>
Convicted and of those discharged ansd. he had for the Year<lb></lb>
1752<del>and</del>
that the<del>proportier of Middx prisoner has been</del>
upon an Average a fourth Part<lb></lb>
of the Middx Prisoners tryed have been<lb></lb>
<del>acquainted</del>
And<del>he</del>
believes the<lb></lb>
Proportion would be about the same if<lb></lb>
taken for a number of Years<figure rend="mark"></figure>
<lb></lb>
Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50547_n1612-1">William Pentlow</rs>
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who had been Keeper<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo902">new Prison</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo903">Clerkenwell</rs>
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14 Years<lb></lb>
said That Prisrs. are removed from thence<lb></lb>
to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo904">New gate</rs>
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six days before the Session<lb></lb>
Agreeable to the Order made in 1726 that<lb></lb>
they remain<del>then</del>
during the Session which<del>Lasts</del>
3 or 4 days</p>
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In Decr. Sess. 1752 there were seventy Prisoners<lb></lb>
in the Calender of which 45 were tried 15<lb></lb>
Discharged by proclamation with out prosecu-<lb></lb>
tion 10 Prosecuted at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo905">Hicks Hall</rs>
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and in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo906">City<lb></lb>
of London</rs>
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Has Gone<obscured></obscured>
the whole Year with<lb></lb>
same Manner And there were 680 prisoners of<lb></lb>
which<del>there</del>
176 were discharged by proclamation<lb></lb>
176 and about 50 Indicted & tried at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo907">Hicks Hall</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
(including some removed to other Games charged<lb></lb>
with Crimes Committed in other Counties) That of<lb></lb>
the remaining 454. that were tried, about 3 fourths<lb></lb>
might have been were convicted & one fourth a Committed.</p>
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