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By adjournment same day
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Mr Barnfather dated to the Court that about a Year
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as an Order of Sessions was made desiring all Justices before
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whom Vagrants were brought, to see tha such Vagrants
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was in a state of health fit to be passed without endangering
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Life. Nothwithstanding which Order the Parish Officer
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continue to pass them in Numbers Many of whom are so
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dangerously ill & weak; that when in
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, they frequently
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dare not remove them agreeable to the Pass, but they remain
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in that Gaol, in the most deplorable condition of Fifth
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Vermin & Diseases for Weeks, to the great danger of the lives
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of the other Prisoners by the infection spreading over the Gaol
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That Saturday last 10th. of Novr. a Vagrant was sent into the prison
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from Shadwell actually dying & expired early on the Tuesday
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Morning. his name
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John Edwards
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, his and Body after death
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was full of Vermin & every disorder, looks like a bag of faull
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Bones cover'd with Parliment, that this Evil is become so
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general that is dangerous for any person to attend them &.
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the
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& Nurses have great & unnecessary trouble for
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which they have no satisfaction for these these Vagrants are after
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so ill that they cannot be passed with safety as directed but lie
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in this
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deplorable condition in the Gaol Weeks together
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creating great trouble to the Keepers & others, expences to the
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County & highly infections to the Gaol & all therein
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Mr Gibbs the
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being called in stated to the Court that the said
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when he came to the prison he was in the most
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deplorable Condition being one Mass of Vermin and disease
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he also stated to the Court that the Vagrants in general
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which were sent to the said Gaols were in a most week
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