May 1784
Part of The Building
may be executed on The
Quaters Ground immediately
"By this plan it appears that one part may be
executed on the Quakers Ground immediately and the Prisoners
removed thereto and the other with equal Propriety when the
Buildings are hereafter taken down.
"It appears by this Design that a Currency of Air a
preserved through the whole Plan and also a Connection with
the external Air
Adjoing Lend may be had
of the Woodbridge Corporate}
"Adjoining Land may be had of the Woodbridge
Corporation which will extend the Drying Ground Airing
Ground Etc Etc..
"Upon due Consideration It is the Opinion of
Your Committee that the Plan marked A is the best of those
produced and is a very proper Plan of a House of Correction
for this County adapted to the Ground purchased by the
Quakers
"Your Committee then requested Mr Leroux to
lay before them at their next Meeting an Estimate of the
expence of carrying the Plan marked A into execution
in consequence of which Mr Laroux laid before Your
Committee a paper of which the following is a Copy.
Estimate of ye Designs
made for & appr and
by the Commee of
His Majesties Justices
for a House of Correctn}
"An Estimate of the Designs made for and
approved by the Committee of His Majestys Justices of the
Peace for the County of Middlesex
for the building a New
Bridewell
or House of Correction
in the said County.
To Build and Compleat that part of the
Design that can at this immediate time be put in
Execution and to which the Prisoners may be first
removed containing the East Prisons marked 1 and
3 intended for the Males together with the
Infirmary belonging thereto and the enclosing
three Courts adjoining will amount to the Sum of}£6713..-..-