1763.

By Adjournment on Thursday the Fifteenth day of September 1763

Order for continuing and
Electing Thomas Lane< no role >
Esqr . Chairman of the Court

His Majestys Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex Assembled
at this Present General Session of the Peace holden for the said County do
Continue and Elect Thomas Lane< no role > Esquire to be Chairman of the General
Quarter and General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the same
County between Michaelmas One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty there
and Lady-day then next Ensuing

Report of the Committe
about Keeper of Clerkenwell
Bridewell }

To the Worshipfull his Majestys Justices of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex in their General Session Assembled

The Report of the Committee appointed by Order of the last
Session to Inquire into the Fitness of the several Candidates for
the Place of Governor or Keeper of the House of Correction at
Clerkenwell .

Thomas Lane< no role >
J.S. Colepeper
Thos. Niccoll< no role >
Jno. Sydenham< no role >
Js. Jalabert
T. Miller
J. Girdler
W. Bayntun

In Pursuance of the Order of Court made at the last Session of the Peace
your Committee met at the time and place in the said Order Appointed and
took into their Consideration the matters to them referred and read the Petitions
of the several Candidates for the Place or Employment of Governor or Keeper of
the House of Correction at Clerkenwell in the Room of John Turner< no role > late
Governor or Keeper thereof. namely Thomas Hopkins< no role > , James Elmore< no role > , Philip
Warwick, William Sheldon< no role > . and William Pentlow< no role > junior , when several of the
Committee recommended the said Thomas Hopkins< no role > as a fit Person to be
Entrusted with the Keeping and Government of the said House of Correction
both in regard to his Honesty Sobriety and Diligence if his other Affairs will
Admit of his constant Residence in the said Gaol, he having at Present a Place
in the Excise Office and a Bond being always entred into by the Gaoler when Elected
in the Penalty of Five hundred pounds. One Condition of which Bond is, that he
will constantly reside in the said Prison and Act himself and not by Deputy, And
your Committee further report that none of the other Candidates were recommended
by any of the Gentlemen then present

Your Committee compared the Fees of the two Prisons at Clerkenwell and are
of Opinion that the Fees taken at the House of Correction being greater in some
Articles than those taken at the new Prison for and on Account of the same Matters
should be reduced and made agreeable in all Respects with those taken at the New
Prison and that a Table of the Fees should be placed up in each Prison And
Whereas there has been for some years last past allowed by this County to the
Keeper of Clerkenwell Bridewell a Salary of Fifty pounds per Annum and to the
Keeper of New Prison Twenty pounds per Annum over and above all their other
Fees and Perquisites and no regular Account having been heretofore kept by
either of the Gaolers of what their Fees may Annually amount to, your Committe
are of Opinion that for the future a Book should be kept by each Gaoler with