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Then to shew that the
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prisoners
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Committed and Surrendered to the said Gaol
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are not greater now than heretofore.
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Mr.
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James
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produced on Account
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which has extracted from the Gaol delivery Books.
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and which he said was a true Extract
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whereby it
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appeared that from Decr: 1656 to October 1671
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inclusive there were 6666 exclusive of such as
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were discharged by Proclamation and from 1741 to
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1755 both Ind: there were 7842 including those
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discharged by Proclamation
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to annex this Accot.
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To Shew that the County have several
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Prisons of their own. to which persons for all
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but For most Atronious offences are Comitted & that the
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soled
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Mr: Pentlow said that there is
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Clerkenwell
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and the
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house in Westmr.
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to which persons charged with Crimes are Committed
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That he does not know whether
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belongs to
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B
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produced it appears
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That the City paid towards the Rebuilding of the sd. Gaol after the Great Fire of
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in 1666 near 11000
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to 863.16
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and by anor. Accot.
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and Constantly
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Repaired that it saith been attend Enlarged by the City it ever since the Year 1699 to the present time
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At a very considerable Expence at
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appear by an Account delivered in Intitled an Account
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of
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have included for an upon accot. of repairing & alterning the Gaol Etc.
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or to the County at largeThat he has a
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Salary of £30 and the Keeper of
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has £50 a Year paid him by the
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Treasurer of the County
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out of the County Money
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That all Expences for repairs and other Expences incident
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to the said prisons of
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and
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are
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defrayed by the County-And the Witness produced
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An Account of the Number of prisoners Committed to
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the
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together with those removed to Newgate from
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January Sessions 1755 inclusive to January Session 1765
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exclusive whereby it appeared that the Number of Prisoners
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Committed were 7053 and the Number there of removed to
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were 1800.
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That the said Prison is very old but the prisoners
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are as healthy as any private Family which he
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attributes to the Cleanliness and Airmess of the prison
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and that only 10 Prisoners one whereof Murther'd
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himself have died in 10 Ps: & none of them of any Contagious
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