Bridewell Royal Hospital:
Minute Books of the General Prison Committee
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1st August 1792 - 22nd April 1802

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Image 156 of 53413th May 1795


Continued Wednesday 13 May 1795

condition by the introduction of such proper lessons and Prap [..]
as have been recommended by different Divines; and the Minister
might suit his discourses to their unhappy situation, and
the level of their capacities./

This certainly would increase the Sundays business; [..]
the Chaplain would not be backward in doing his Professional duty, [..]
if it is pressed hard would the Governors it is Presumed, refuse
him such assistance as would enable him to perform his work [..]
ease to himself and benefit to his hearers.

It remains to consider what are the proper methods to [..]
taken in order to admonish and Instruct the Prisoners. It certa [..]
was an oversight in the compiler of our Liturgy that among the
excellent services which they composed for the different occasions
and necessities of human life, they did not frame an Office for [..]
Visitation of Prisoners. At the close of Queen Anns reign the
measure was recommended to convocation but did not take place.
There is such an Office in the Church of Ireland which has been adopted
in the American Liturgy; it contains some suitable prayers and
a forceable exhortation; and if once in the week, at a certain [..]
the Prisoners were regularly brst. either into a proper Room or the
Chapel, and this Office was used by the Minister, perhaps he could
not take a better method of conveying to them General admonition
and instruction-In particular cases where there should app [..]
great hopes of reformation he would hardly fail to repeat such
advice as would tend to accomplish so desirable an object.

It would be proper to have in the private Cells a Printed
Sheet of paper containing select texts of Scripture, the ten command
and a particular Prayer together with the Lords Prayer./

[..] Prayer might be read by the Keeper in the




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