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<p n="1633">Then to shew that the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo929">Middlesex</rs>
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prisoners<lb></lb>
Committed and Surrendered to the said Gaol<lb></lb>
are not greater now than heretofore.</p>
<p n="1634"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">4</note>
<lb></lb>
Mr.<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50547_n1634-1"> <del>James</del>
Jefferson</rs>
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produced on Account<lb></lb>
which has extracted from the Gaol delivery Books.<lb></lb>
<del>and which he said was a true Extract</del>
whereby it<lb></lb>
appeared that from Decr: 1656 to October 1671<lb></lb>
inclusive there were 6666 exclusive of such as<lb></lb>
were discharged by Proclamation and from 1741 to<lb></lb>
1755 both Ind: there were 7842 including those<lb></lb>
discharged by Proclamation<lb></lb>
<del>to annex this Accot.</del>
</p>
<p n="1635">To Shew that the County have several</p>
<p n="1636">Prisons of their own. to which persons for all<lb></lb>
but For most Atronious offences are Comitted & that the<lb></lb>
soled</p>
<p n="1637">Mr: Pentlow said that there is <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo930">New Prison</rs>
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</p>
<p n="1638"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">5</note>
<lb></lb>
<del> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo931">Clerkenwell</rs>
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</del>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo932">Clerkenwell Bridewell</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo933">Tothill<lb></lb>
Fields</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo934">Bridewell</rs>
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and the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo935">Gate</rs>
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house in Westmr.<lb></lb>
to which persons charged with Crimes are Committed<lb></lb>
<del>That he does not know whether <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo936">Tothill<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Fields</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo937">Bridewell</rs>
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belongs to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo938">Westminster</rs>
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.</del>
</p>
<p n="1639">B<obscured></obscured>
produced it appears<lb></lb>
That the City paid towards the Rebuilding of the sd. Gaol after the Great Fire of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo939">London</rs>
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in 1666 near 11000<del>to 863.16</del>
and by anor. Accot.<lb></lb>
<del>and Constantly</del>
Repaired that it saith been attend Enlarged by the City it ever since the Year 1699 to the present time<lb></lb>
At a very considerable Expence at<del>appear by an Account delivered in Intitled an Account</del>
<lb></lb>
of<del>that <obscured></obscured>
have included for an upon accot. of repairing & alterning the Gaol Etc.</del>
</p>
<p n="1640">or to the County at largeThat he has a<lb></lb>
Salary of £30 and the Keeper of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo940">Clerkenwell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo941">Bridewell</rs>
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has £50 a Year paid him by the<lb></lb>
Treasurer of the County<del>out of the County Money</del>
<lb></lb>
That all Expences for repairs and other Expences incident<lb></lb>
to the said prisons of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo942">Clerkenwell</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo943">New prison</rs>
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are<lb></lb>
defrayed by the County-And the Witness produced<lb></lb>
An Account of the Number of prisoners Committed to<del>the<lb></lb>
said</del>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo944">New Prison</rs>
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together with those removed to Newgate from<lb></lb>
January Sessions 1755 inclusive to January Session 1765<lb></lb>
exclusive whereby it appeared that the Number of Prisoners<lb></lb>
Committed were 7053 and the Number there of removed to<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50547_geo945">New gate</rs>
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were 1800.</p>
<p n="1641">That the said Prison is very old but the prisoners<lb></lb>
are as healthy as any private Family which he<lb></lb>
attributes to the Cleanliness and Airmess of the prison<lb></lb>
and that only 10 Prisoners one whereof Murther'd<lb></lb>
himself have died in 10 Ps: & none of them of any Contagious</p>
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