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To His Majesty's
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their General Session of the Peace held for the said County on Thursday
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the Seventh day of December 1780.
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The Humble Representation and Petition of
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Samuel Newport
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Sheweth
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That at the General Quarter Session of the peace held
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for this County in the Month of October 1779 Your Petitioner was
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appointed through your Worships favour to the office of
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which he now holds; at the time of his
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Appointment and long before the average Number of Prisoners
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confined in
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were about 40. and upon an average
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15 were for trial at the
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That Your Petitioner is allowed a Sallary of £70.
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a Year and that the rest of the emoluments of his Office arise
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from the fees paid by persons discharged out of his Custody either
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by Warrant of a Magistrate or upon the expiration of the Sentence
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under which they are Committed and for the Use of Beds within
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the Goal.
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That heretofore the
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had the
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Benefit arising from the sale of Victuals and Liquor at the Tap
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but now these advantages an in the Hands of another.
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That the Persons generally committed to
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are persons suspected of felony or of high misdemeanors
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or who an Guilty thereof and are frequently in the most distressed
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circumstances and not able to pay any fees whatever.
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That since the late Riots, and the distruction of
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the
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the Number of Prisoners in Your Petitioners
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Custody have been upon an average 150 or more and are daily
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increasing, 80 or 90 of which have been for Trial at one
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Session at the
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That there being now no Gaol of equal security
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not even all
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Prisoners of such Description as was usually committed to
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,
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but also the greatest part of those who have been tried at the
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, and received the Judgement of the law for Capital.
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