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whole bying in Rains as the Rioters left it
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The Sheriffs being asked the reason why this Goal has
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not been repaired, as it was then more than Nine Months since it was
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destroyed, replied that they had no find to Repair it so there is no
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knowing how long this Goal may be suffered to remain in this
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State during which time the Sheriffs may send their Convicts to
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will be receiving and enjoying the Rents Profits Priviledges
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and immunities of their several extensive Estates many of which were
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would have been committed to Newgate are now committed to
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experience not sufficient properly to contain such Prisoners as are
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committed by the County Magistrates only together with the Convicts
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these two Goals will be so erouded that as the warm season
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apporaches every thing is to be dreaded that may arise from
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Infection and Epidemick disorder which may not even prove fatal
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to the Courts of Justice but to the Metropolis nor can this malady
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have an end while Convicts are thus sent to these Goals and to
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continue there Months and for Years in an idle and worse than
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an useless state corrupting each other and forming Confederacies
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dangerous to the public and subversive of all order and good
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government: for convicts knowing that they have received their
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final sentence & that nothing worse can be inflicted are the
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most desperate and dangerous Prisoners, ever making disturbances
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and Riots within the Goals and encouraging others to misbe have
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