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Articles of Grievances Laid to the Charge of the Keeper of
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Newgate
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by the Debtor Prisonrs: of the Comon side as can be made Good on Tuesday
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next in Case the Court will enter into ill, to hear the same Humbly
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offered to the Consideration of the Rt. Honoble the Lord Mayor the
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Honoble Mr.
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Baron Thompson
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Recorder
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and to the Rest of the
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Honoble Court of
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Alderman
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Impris
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That for 3 Lords days last past, And for many years before the Prisonrs. for Debt
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their wives and friends have been Hindred from Divine Service the Chappel
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being on these dayes filled with Strangers to Shew the Convicts and Malefactrs.
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(under sentence of Death of whom the Keeper and Turnkeys take ten or twenty
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pounds a day (More or Less)
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For 6 Months past an Iron Barr by Keepers Order Nailed a Cross the Grate to Prsent
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the Prisonrs. having liquors & other Necessaries brought into the Jayl
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not taken
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off the Complained of to the
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Prisoners wives and friends complaine to the Keeper that they cannot get in or
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out for 4 hours together and no Redress as can be proved by all the Prisoners Etc
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Debtors wives and Friends often robbed by the Felons being mixed together and
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often beat and abused by Theives with Bulls Peezles and if any Resistance is
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made they are Ironed put down in the Bilbees Dungeon
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or Condemned Hole
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by
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Keepers Order Witness Mr: King Half night and Mack millan late Served soe
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That as soon as any Debtor comes in 3 Felons who are called the Keepers Partners
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hurry him into a Little Room and Stripp him unless he pays 3s.6d by the Keepers
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Order and their bedds taken away from em unless she pay Sr. for comeing in and going
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out and if any Debtor dyes His bedd and Covering taken away with his wareing
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apparrell Claimed as a perquist to the Keeper which their friends Could not
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get againe the Complained of to the Keeper who detaines the dead untill his
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friends pay all Fees altho' ready to breed a plagne
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That £40 a year given to the releife and Support of the poor Confined Debtors for
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Water Gruel not any of Late have been distributed but the Keeper receives the mony
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under that pretence of takeing Care of Delivering of itt, Altho many have dyed for
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meere want Etc
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That he Sd Keeper Detaines from the Prisonrs. the Prison Seal for merly Kept
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by 4 of the Prisonrs. with 4 different keys in a box for that purpose by which seal
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he may give receipts for much more quarterly mony than has been distributed
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amonge 'em that by Compareing of such receipts and how the mony has been
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disposed of it will appear that he has Several Sumes of mony in his Hands
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undisposed off for which they pray an Inspection and Account as also to have an
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acct. of the mony Bread Beer and Coals with other Public and private Charities
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that was formerly given but of late Sunk and last to the mount of £300 Pot
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or thereabouts.
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That the Keeper for Sumes of mony have privately lodged Felons
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amonge the Debtors removed from the place called the Mar Felon Side Contrary
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to the Statute Etc
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That many Prisonrs. have been detained upon their Writts of Hab: Corpus
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and have Stood two or 3 Summones before the Keeper would lett 'em goe
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under Pretence of Fees and Lodging and refusing to shew 'em a Table of Fees
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that should be hung up in a publick place to see they are not Imposed upon
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which is not done According to Law Etc
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