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Hospital</rs>
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<hi rend="braceResult">At a Prison Committee Wednesday<rs type="date" id="GLBRMB20101_date35"> 12th Feby. <lb></lb>
1794</rs>
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<p n="600">Mr. Auditor General</p>
<p n="601">Mr. <rs type="persName" id="GLBRMB20101_n601-1">Richard Till</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="GLBRMB20101_n601-2">Granville Sharp</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="GLBRMB20101_n601-3">Wm. Waddington</rs>
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<p n="602">By the Calendar of the Prisoners there appeared to be</p>
<p n="603">18 Men<lb></lb>
3 Apprentices<lb></lb>
3 House Apprentices<lb></lb>
25 Women<lb></lb>
2 Children<lb></lb>
51</p>
<p n="604">Matron's Report of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="GLBRMB20101_n604-1">Mary Lovegrove</rs>
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who<lb></lb>
had refused to give her<lb></lb>
Child Sustenance.The Matron having informed the Committee that <rs type="persName" id="GLBRMB20101_n604-2">Mary Lovegrove</rs>
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<lb></lb>
who was committed on the 8th. Instant with her Child to be passed<lb></lb>
had refused to give the Child reasonable sustenance tho' it had been<lb></lb>
provided by the Matron who was fearful the Child would be starved<lb></lb>
And likewise that she had been extremely abusive which upon<lb></lb>
further inquiries appears to the Committee to be true</p>
<p n="605">Order thereuponResolved that the said <rs type="persName" id="GLBRMB20101_n605-1">Mary Lovegrove</rs>
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be put in the Stocks<lb></lb>
as a punishment for her misbehavior and afterwards to be confined<lb></lb>
in a seperate Cell</p>
<p n="606">And that her Child be taken from her and put under the care of the<lb></lb>
Matron.</p>
<p n="607">And the Committee now signed a letter to the Lord Mayor<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
apprizing. his Lordship of the above circumstances.</p>
<p n="608">Hemp difficult to be got</p>
<p n="609">Two Engines for Spinning<lb></lb>
Rope Yarn to be erectedThe Superintendant of the Prisons informed the Committee that he<lb></lb>
found it very difficult to procure hemp for the Prisoners to beat, that<lb></lb>
he was of opinion that it would answer very well to let them spin<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="GLBRMB20101_geo64">Rope Yarn</rs>
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and the expences of erecting two of those Engines would<lb></lb>
not be more than 30s/. Resolved that he be ordered to<lb></lb>
purchase two of them and to put them up directly.</p>
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