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<p n="39">Articles of Grievances Laid to the Charge of the Keeper of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15040_geo21">Newgate</rs>
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by the Debtor Prisonrs: of the Comon side as can be made Good on Tuesday<lb></lb>
next in Case the Court will enter into ill, to hear the same Humbly<lb></lb>
offered to the Consideration of the Rt. Honoble the Lord Mayor the<lb></lb>
Honoble Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15040_n39-1">Baron Thompson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15040_occ14">Recorder</rs>
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and to the Rest of the<lb></lb>
Honoble Court of <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15040_occ15">Alderman</rs>
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<p n="40"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Impris</note>
That for 3 Lords days last past, And for many years before the Prisonrs. for Debt<lb></lb>
their wives and friends have been Hindred from Divine Service the Chappel<lb></lb>
being on these dayes filled with Strangers to Shew the Convicts and Malefactrs.<lb></lb>
(under sentence of Death of whom the Keeper and Turnkeys take ten or twenty<lb></lb>
pounds a day (More or Less)</p>
<p n="41"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">2 Item</note>
For 6 Months past an Iron Barr by Keepers Order Nailed a Cross the Grate to Prsent<lb></lb>
the Prisonrs. having liquors & other Necessaries brought into the Jayl<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
not taken<lb></lb>
off the Complained of to the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15040_occ16">Keeper</rs>
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<p n="42"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">3 Item</note>
Prisoners wives and friends complaine to the Keeper that they cannot get in or<lb></lb>
out for 4 hours together and no Redress as can be proved by all the Prisoners Etc</p>
<p n="43"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">4 Item</note>
Debtors wives and Friends often robbed by the Felons being mixed together and<lb></lb>
often beat and abused by Theives with Bulls Peezles and if any Resistance is<lb></lb>
made they are Ironed put down in the Bilbees Dungeon <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15040_occ17">or Condemned Hole</rs>
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by<lb></lb>
Keepers Order Witness Mr: King Half night and Mack millan late Served soe</p>
<p n="44"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">5 Item</note>
That as soon as any Debtor comes in 3 Felons who are called the Keepers Partners<lb></lb>
hurry him into a Little Room and Stripp him unless he pays 3s.6d by the Keepers<lb></lb>
Order and their bedds taken away from em unless she pay Sr. for comeing in and going<lb></lb>
out and if any Debtor dyes His bedd and Covering taken away with his wareing<lb></lb>
apparrell Claimed as a perquist to the Keeper which their friends Could not<lb></lb>
get againe the Complained of to the Keeper who detaines the dead untill his<lb></lb>
friends pay all Fees altho' ready to breed a plagne</p>
<p n="45"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">6 Item</note>
That £40 a year given to the releife and Support of the poor Confined Debtors for<lb></lb>
Water Gruel not any of Late have been distributed but the Keeper receives the mony<lb></lb>
under that pretence of takeing Care of Delivering of itt, Altho many have dyed for<lb></lb>
meere want Etc</p>
<p n="46"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">7 Item</note>
That he Sd Keeper Detaines from the Prisonrs. the Prison Seal for merly Kept<lb></lb>
by 4 of the Prisonrs. with 4 different keys in a box for that purpose by which seal<lb></lb>
he may give receipts for much more quarterly mony than has been distributed<lb></lb>
amonge 'em that by Compareing of such receipts and how the mony has been<lb></lb>
disposed of it will appear that he has Several Sumes of mony in his Hands<lb></lb>
undisposed off for which they pray an Inspection and Account as also to have an<lb></lb>
acct. of the mony Bread Beer and Coals with other Public and private Charities<lb></lb>
that was formerly given but of late Sunk and last to the mount of £300 Pot<obscured></obscured>
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or thereabouts.</p>
<p n="47"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">8 Item</note>
That the Keeper for Sumes of mony have privately lodged Felons<lb></lb>
amonge the Debtors removed from the place called the Mar Felon Side Contrary<lb></lb>
to the Statute Etc</p>
<p n="48"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">9 Item</note>
That many Prisonrs. have been detained upon their Writts of Hab: Corpus<lb></lb>
and have Stood two or 3 Summones before the Keeper would lett 'em goe<lb></lb>
under Pretence of Fees and Lodging and refusing to shew 'em a Table of Fees<lb></lb>
that should be hung up in a publick place to see they are not Imposed upon<lb></lb>
which is not done According to Law Etc</p>
<p n="49">Verte</p>
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