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Mr B Staled to ye Cr That
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About as year ago an Order of Sessions was made
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desioning all Justices before whom Vagrants were
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brought, to see that such Vagrant was in a state of
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health fit to be passed without in dangering life
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Notwithstanding which Order the parish officers
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continue to gross them in Numbers Many of whom
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are so dangerously illg weak: that when in
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they frequenty dare not remove them agreeable to the
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pass, but they remain in that Gaol, in the most
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deplorable condition of fifth verming de
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ases for
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Weeks, to the great danger of the lives of the other prisoners
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by
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the infection spreading over the Gaol.
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That Saturday last 10th of Novber. or Vagrant was sent in
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from Shadwell actually Dying, & expired early on the
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tuesday morning. his Names
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John Edwards
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,
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his
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body after death was full of vermin & every disorder, lookd
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like as bag of foull bones coverd with parchment; that
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this evil is become so general that it is dangerous for
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any person to Attend them & the
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& Nurses
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have great
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necessary trouble for which they have
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no satisfaction for these Vagrants are
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so ill
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that they cannot be passed with safety as directed but
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lie in this deplora the condition in the gaol weeks Esqr.
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excating great trouble to the
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there, expenc to
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the County,
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highly infection
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to the gaole
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To Make an Order notice receive them in yt State
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some times between 20 of 30 at one time always as Dozen.
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