together with this Order Shall be a Sufficient discharge to the Said
Treasurer for Such payment, which payment is to be without
Prejudice to the Said Mr. Jacksons Claim of twelve Shillings for
travelling Charges on account of taking the Said Inquisitions, the
Consideration where of this Court [..] doth adjourn until the
County Day of the next General Quarter Session of the Peace for
this County.

By adjournment on Thursday the 6th. Day of December 1753 .

Order made upon the
Report of the Comittee
concerning Mr. William
Pentlow< no role > Keeper of New
Prison at Clerkenwell in
this County}

not Etc.

Whereas upon reading the Report of George Errington< no role > , Francis
Bedwell< no role > , John Dekewer< no role > , Thomas Jervis< no role > , Walter Berry< no role > William
Caslon< no role > , George Garrett< no role > Bartholomew Hammond< no role > and William
Withers< no role > Esqrs . being a Quorum of the Committee of his Majesty's
Justices of the Peace of this County to whom it was by an Order
of Sessions referred to consider of the Petition of Mr. William Pentlow< no role >
Keeper of New Prison at Clerkenwell in the Said County
complaining of the great Charge and Expence he is at in
performing and executing the Said Office and Business of Keeper
being obliged to keep Servants in order to Secure Such desperate
Persons as are committed to his Custody whose Wages amount to
more than £50 a year which being added to the Sum of
twenty pounds a year paid by the Petr. to the Treasurer of this
County for Repairs of the Said Goal and ten pounds to the Matron
of Bridewell and other incidental Expences amounting in the
whole to atleast £100. a year and other Hardships therein
mentioned and praying to be relieved in the Premisses, It
appeareth to this Court by the Said Report that the Said William
Pentlow hath been charged with and hath constantly paid unto
the Treasurer of the Said County the annual Sum of twenty Pounds
towards the necessary Repairs of the Said Prison, And it appearing
that the Fees and Profitts of the Said Prison are not equal to the