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Jury are not discharged till they have dispatched
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the felony Business
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before them or otherwise might
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he had Inspected the Gaol Delivery Books and
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made a Calmeation of the Proportion of Prisrs.
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Convicted and of those discharged ansd. he had for the Year
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1752
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upon an Average a fourth Part
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of the Middx Prisoners tryed have been
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Mr.
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William Pentlow
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14 Years
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said That Prisrs. are removed from thence
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six days before the Session
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Agreeable to the Order made in 1726 that
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during the Session which
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In Decr. Sess. 1752 there were seventy Prisoners
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in the Calender of which 45 were tried 15
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the whole Year with
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same Manner And there were 680 prisoners of
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which
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176 were discharged by proclamation
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176 and about 50 Indicted & tried at
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(including some removed to other Games charged
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with Crimes Committed in other Counties) That of
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the remaining 454. that were tried, about 3 fourths
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might have been were convicted & one fourth a Committed.
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