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<p n="683">Goal for near four years last past or for any other period within that space of time<lb></lb>
and have been sick during their Confinement Your Committee are also of<lb></lb>
Opinion that <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50722_n683-1">William Smith</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50722_occ141">Doctor in Physic</rs>
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hath not been at the Expence<lb></lb>
stated in his report in respect to the Prisoners who were sick during their<lb></lb>
Confinement in the said Prisons of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo722">Tothill fields</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo723">Whitechapel</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
time mentioned in the Report made to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo724">House of Commons</rs>
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<p n="684">And before Your Committee conclude their Report they take<lb></lb>
leave to observe that a Notwithstanding Dr. Smith in his Petition to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo725">House<lb></lb>
of Commons</rs>
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confines his attendances to the different Goals in London<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo726">Westminster</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo727">Southwark</rs>
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and ever the Report of the Committee of the<lb></lb>
Commons to whom that Petition was referred enumerates the following Goals<lb></lb>
as those only which the Dr. has attended vizt. Ludgate <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo728">The Fleet</rs>
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, The Poutery<lb></lb>
Compter, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo729">Bridewell</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo730">wood Street</rs>
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Compter Goals and Prisons within the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo731">City of London</rs>
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, The <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo732">Marshalsea, Kings Bench and Compter</rs>
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Prisons<lb></lb>
within <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo733">the Borough</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo734">Southwark</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo735">Tothill fields</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo736">Bridewell</rs>
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in the City of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo737">Westminster</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo738">Whitechapel</rs>
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Goal in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo739">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Yet the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo740">House of Commons</rs>
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expressly vote Doctor Smith the Recompence above<lb></lb>
mentioned for his attendance on sick Prisoners in the several Goals in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo741">County of Middlesex</rs>
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City of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo742">Westminster</rs>
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and borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo743">Southwark</rs>
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those<lb></lb>
Goals which Dr. Smith affirms to have visited in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo744">City of London</rs>
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are<lb></lb>
equal in number to all the other Goals the Doctor asserts to have attended<lb></lb>
in all the other Jurisdictions; and as five to one as to those in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo745">Middlesex</rs>
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<lb></lb>
or <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo746">Westminster</rs>
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and yet the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo747">City of London</rs>
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si not mentioned in the said<lb></lb>
Vote in any respect whatsoever from which Circumstances as well as from<lb></lb>
many other mentioned in the fore going part of this report your Committee<lb></lb>
are of opinion that the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo748">House of Commons</rs>
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have been most shamefully<lb></lb>
imposed upon both in respect to the number of Goals which the Dr: pretends<lb></lb>
to have attended, the frequency of those attendances and the Expence<lb></lb>
which it is asserted the Dr. hath been at in regard to sick Prisoners and<lb></lb>
Your Committee are induced to be of this Opinion by a form belief that the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo749">house<lb></lb>
of Commons</rs>
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would not otherwise at this time especially when their attention is<lb></lb>
particularly placed upon national economy have precipitately voted away<lb></lb>
so large a Sum of the Public money for the fact is that Dr Smith instead of<lb></lb>
attending the several Goals in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50722_geo750">County of Middlesex</rs>
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as stated in the vote<lb></lb>
of the Commons hath only attended one Goal in the said County and that Goal<lb></lb>
the most insignificant,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
visited there but once, allows, there was only one sick<lb></lb>
Prisoner, therein, and that this Expences in the Cure or for the relief of that prisoner<lb></lb>
amounted to no more than seven Shillings and Six Pence</p>
<p n="685">All which the Committee Submit Etc Etc</p>
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