Middlesex

Session House
27th January 1784

Minutes of the Committee appointed to examine into the
General Government of the House of Correction at Clerkenwell

Present

Thomas Bishop< no role > Esquire in the Chair

The Reverend Dr. Glasse
Thomas Collins< no role > Esq John Bosworth< no role > Esq
Francis Willes< no role > Esq
Sir Sampson Wright< no role > Knt .
Nathaniel Conant< no role > Esq
Joseph Faikney< no role > Esq

Edmund Pepys< no role > Esq
William Franks< no role > Esq
Charles Sheppard< no role > Esq
William Gregson< no role > Esq
Jenkin Jones< no role > Esq
Humphry Jackson< no role > Esq
Jacob Lerom< no role > Esqr .

Mr. Harwood Governor of the House of Correction at Clerkenwell
attending being called in he delivered to the Committee pursuant to Order
a Paper of which the following is a Copy.

To His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex

I do hereby humbly Certify that within a Month last
past I have detained four Persons for their fees Vizt. three one day
each and one two days and that none of them were kept in Hons
Dated the 20th day of January 1784

I Harwood Governor of the
House of Correction at Clerkenwell

And being asked whether any and how many of the Persons
mentioned in the said list had paid their fees he declared that three
were discharged without fees and that one paid his fees

Mr. Harwood was then asked what his daily business was in
his Prison to which he answered as follows.

The first thing I now do in the Morning is to go into the Lodge
to inquire what Prisoners came in the Night I see them and there
dispose of them by putting them into their proper places I then
examine the further examination file to see who are to go up to the
different committing Magistrates and give orders for their being taken
before the Magistrates accordingly I then book the Commitments