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May 1797.
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Signed previous to
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Richard Carters
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Admission into
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Bethlem Hospital but had not yet been returned duly
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Signed and attested as the Rules of that Hospital require
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The Prisoners were Ordered to be immediately
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employed in Lime Whiting the Walls and Cells of the
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Prison a proper Quantity of Materials being provided
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for that purpose by which a very great serving will be
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made to the County.-A specimen of Mary
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Palmons Thread
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was produced to the Committee
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by which it appeared that she is well qualified to
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teach the Female Prisoners to spin and the Committee
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being of opinion that it may be of great future benefit
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to them that they should learn to spin, and it
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appearing also that they can earn as much by
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spinning as by the ordinary employment of
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picking Oakum-Ordered That they be
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immediately set to Work in spinning
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The Governor laid before the Committee an
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Estimate of the Expences of cloathing and maintenance
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of a Prisoner by which it appeared that with an
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Allowance of Meat Bread Etc. 4 times a Week and
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Bread only the other 3 Days, the Weekly Expence
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of each Prisoner was 2s..5d. or 4d. Pr. Day and one
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penny over,
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in the Year £6..5s..8d. That the cloathing
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and Washing for each Prisoner amounts to 3..12..-
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Total Expence of feeding and cloathing £9..17s..8d
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the Average earnings of the Prisoners are equal to
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the Expence of their Feeding, the Cloathing them is an
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Extra Expence to the County.
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The Governor Reported That he had found in
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searching a Vagrant from Lambeth Street
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Whitechapel
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concealed in a variety of small Parcels in his Cloaths
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the sum of £8..10..(5 Guas. & ½ of it in Gold) and on
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searching another 2½ Guas. a Counter resembling a
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Guinea
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and 12½d in Copper. all which Sums have been
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returned to them on their departure from the Prison
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Mr.. Aris Reported that a poor Boy named Pybus
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