December 1791

By Adjournment same day.

Resolved that the Escape of John Oxon otherwise Oxley out of the
House of Correction at Clerkenwell be enquired into, and it being stated that Mr.
Harwood the Governor was ill and not able to attend the Court.

John Woodward< no role > the Turnkey attended who being Examined said that
Mr Harwood was very ill and unable to come out; That Oxley was Committed by the
name of Oxon by Sir Sampson Wright< no role > by virtue of a Commitment which was Read in
the following Words Vizt.

Middlesex to wit: To The Governor of the House of Correction at Clerkenwell or
his Deputy.

Receive into your Custody the Body of John Oxon herewith sent you brought,
before me Sir Sampson Wright< no role > knt . One of His Majestys Justices of the Peace in and
for the said County by Thomas Ting< no role > and Charged before me the said Justice upon the
Oaths of Edward Dilliston< no role > , John Sirel< no role > and others, on suspicion of having Feloniously
Robbed the Aylesbury , Rotherham, and Cambridge Mails agt. the Statute Etc Him
safely keep in your said County for further Examination or untill He shall be
thence discharged by due course of Saw and for so doing this shall be your
sufficient Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal this 20th. day of October in the
Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety One.

Sampr. Wright Ll.

That the Prisoner when brought in had a double Link Iron upon one Leg
That He Ordered another double Iron to be put upon him, That Roberts said he had
directions from Sir Sampson Wright< no role > to shew him Indulgence, that he took off the double
Link and put on a light Iron with a single Link , that several Prisoners Fines came
from Newgate , that the Servants went into the Publick House usually to Drink
upon that occasion, that the Inner Door between the Lodge and the Court Yard was
not locked but shut to, and appeared to Witness to be locked when he Woodward
went out, That the outward Door was Locked, That Oxley must have gone into
the yard and escaped by a Letter, That Oxley was kept in the Lodge (which is a
matter of Indulgence. That Kings Evidences by Indulgence are generally kept