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We have viewed the felons roome & find that the boards of the floor
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are entirely broken up & destroyed & that foure of ye ground joysts
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are defective & we are of opinion that some now joysts be laid downe
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and the floor new boarded,
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when we were at
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We were informed that in the Men's comon Ward
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betweene that and
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the partition is broken & holes
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made thre
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ye same toe thereupon viewed ye same & found it to be soe broken
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and alsoe the bottom part of the greate gate leadeing into the
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prison to be rotten and decayed occasioned in greate measure
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by the raising of the road or way leadeing
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thereto
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July ye 5th 1732
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J Michell
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Robt Tothill
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A Osborne
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A new floor in the felons roome of
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& new oake ground joysts}
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roome 20st. 6
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by 10. 6
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between ye mens comon Ward &
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, to live ye particon with out
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ye walk
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bad
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