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That there is no Publick Allowance whatsoever for the poor Prisoners
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in the Said Prison confined as there is to the Several Prisons of
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Etc. whereby the Said
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William Pentlow
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as Keeper aforesaid is frequently in Compassion obliged to Subsist
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divers Prisoners while in his Custody to prevent their parishing
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for want; And that the Said Committee in Consideration of the
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abovementioned Premisses, and also that it appears that the Fees
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taken by the Said
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William Pentlow
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as Keeper of the Said Prison
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upon the discharge of Prisoners from the Said Prison hath been
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reduced lower than what was taken heretofore by his Predecessors
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in the Said Office, upon the whole are of opinion that an annual
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Sum of thirty Pounds be paid unto the Said
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William Pentlow
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as
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Keeper of the Said Prison by the Treasurer of this County for and
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during the Pleasure of the Court: Now upon Consideration had by
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this Court at this present Quarter Session of the Matters aforesaid
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Specified in the Said Report which Stands adjourned to this
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present County Day the Seventeenth day of January instant This Court being Satisfied of the Truth
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of the Premisses is of opinion and doth accordingly Order that an
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annual Sum of thirty Pounds be from henceforth paid unto the
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Said
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as
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of
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New Prison
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aforesaid by the
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Treasurer of this County for and during the Pleasure of the Court
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of Session of the Peace for the Said County
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by Quarterly Payments,
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And that the Receipts of the Said Keeper together with this Order
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Shall from time to time be Sufficient Discharges to the Said
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Treasurer
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for Such Payments, which Report is and Stands
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confirmed by this Court.
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