Middlesex Sessions:
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22nd February 1725 - 19th January 1734

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Image 66 of 69626th August 1725


Walling up the Door Six foot high and three foot wide
and two bricks thick reduced to one brick and a halfe thick
makes twenty four foot of brick work at Six pence p foot} £0: 12s: 0d.

The Workmen to have the old Bricks for pulling
down the Wall and carrying away the rubbish.

For Carpenters Work.

For making Shed over the gate with good yellow
Timber and deals well pitched and tarred} £3:7s:6d:

For Needling up the Wall of the Women's Ward with
growing Shores and Wedges} £1:7s:6d:

For principal Timber for the bell with a terrett
over the same and pulling down the flatt over
the Keepers Door} £3:2s:6d:
£48:13s:6d:

It is thought fit and Ordered by this Court that the Comittee of
Justices above named or any three of them be and they are hereby
desired to order and direct the said prison to be effectually repaired
by able and Sufficient Workmen in a Workman like and Substantial
manner according to the estimate and for the prices above specified
And to take a Contract or contracts from the Workman or Workmen
to be employed therein for his or their due performance of the said
Work and repairs for the prices aforesaid And to Superintend and
see that such work and repairs be well and sufficiently done and
performed, And this Court doth declare that Order will be given for
payment of the Monys which shall become one to the Workman
or Workmen for the doeing thereof after it shall be made appear to
the Court that the same are well and sufficiently done and
performed, And it is further Ordered by this Court that the expence
of doeing the said work and repairs or any Monys to be advanced
by way of loan for defraying such expence shall be paid and
reimbursed out of the Monys raised or be raised for repairing
the house of Correction at Clerkenwell or other Prison or Prisons
belonging to this County.

P Adjorn Jovis 26 o. die Augusti 1725

Order for Mr Tho: Jones< no role >
Trear of Vagrt. Many to
pay 10th to Nichas Ludford< no role >
petty Constable of South
Mims }

It is Ordered by this Court that Thomas Jones< no role > Gent Treasurer of
the Monys raised within the Hundreds of Ossulston Edmonton
and Gore in this County for the passing of Vagrants Do thereout
pay unto Nicholas Ludford< no role > one of the petty Constables of South Mism
in the said County the Sum of ten pounds for the allowance
made him for his honble and expences in passing and relieving




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