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<p n="113">Expences of the Same and that the latter hath been more especially<lb></lb>
reduced Since the late Act of Parliament for preventing the<lb></lb>
excessive Use of<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Spiritous Liquors took place whereby the<lb></lb>
Said Liquors restrained from being vended within the Limitt of any<lb></lb>
Prison and thereby the Benefit of the Taphouse hath upon that<lb></lb>
account fallen to a very inconsiderable value, and the Said Comittee<lb></lb>
are therefore of Opinion that the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55603_n113-1">William Pentlow</rs>
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as <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55603_occ185">Keeper</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of the Said Prison be entirely discharged from Midsummer day last<lb></lb>
from the payment of the Said annual Sum of twenty Pounds for and<lb></lb>
towards the Repairs as aforesaid to the Said Treasurer during<lb></lb>
the pleasure of the Court, And that in further Consideration of<lb></lb>
the great number of Felons who are committed to the Said Prison<lb></lb>
and afterwards removed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo180">Newgate</rs>
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in order for taking their<lb></lb>
Tryals at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo181">Old Baily</rs>
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for all of whom no manner of Fees are<lb></lb>
paid or demanded by the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55603_n113-2">William Pentlow</rs>
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as Keeper of<lb></lb>
the Said Prison, and also for that it appears ur to the Said Committee<lb></lb>
that very many poor Persons are committed to the Said Prison for<lb></lb>
divers Petty Larcenies Etc who are never able to pay any thing<lb></lb>
upon their Several Discharges, and if any of the Said Persons So<lb></lb>
committed as aforesaid do die during their continuance in the Said<lb></lb>
Prison upon Such their respective Committments that they are<lb></lb>
buried at the Costs and Charges of the Said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55603_n113-3">William Pentlow</rs>
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as<lb></lb>
Keeper of the Said Prison and further it appearing unto the said Comittee<lb></lb>
that there is no publick allowance whatsoever for the poor Prisoners<lb></lb>
in the said Prison confined, as their is to the several Prisons of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo182">Newgate</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55603_geo183">Bridewell</rs>
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and other Goals whereby the said William<lb></lb>
Pentlow as Keeper aforesaid is frequently in Compassion obliged<lb></lb>
to subsist divers Prisoners while in his<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Custody to prevent<lb></lb>
their perishing for Want And that the said Comittee in Consideration<lb></lb>
of the abovementioned Premisses and also that it appears that the<lb></lb>
several Fees taken by the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55603_n113-4">William Pentlow</rs>
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as Keeper of the<lb></lb>
said Prison upon the discharge of Prisoners from the said Prison<lb></lb>
hath been reduced lower than what was taken heretofore by his<lb></lb>
Predecessors in the said Office upon the whole are of Opinion that<lb></lb>
an annual Sum of thirty pounds be paid unto the said William</p>
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