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<p n="170"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">1764</note>
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<p n="171"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo155">Middlesex</rs>
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At the General Quarter Session <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55605_date34">18 Octr, 1764</rs>
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<p n="172"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Account of<lb></lb>
Proceedings in<lb></lb>
Parliament about<lb></lb>
Newgate.</note>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55605_n172-1">John Hawkins</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ156">Esqr</rs>
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. layd before this Court an Account of the Proceedings in Parliament<lb></lb>
on the Citys of Londons Petitions for rebuilding the Goal of Newgate at the Charge of<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo156">City of London</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo157">County of Middlesex</rs>
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and of the opposition of his Majesties.<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55605_occ157">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for this County to such Application which Account was read<lb></lb>
by the said Mr Hawkins and is as follows</p>
<p n="173">An account of the Application of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo158">City of London</rs>
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to Parliament<lb></lb>
for rebuilding the Goal of Newgate and of the opposition made thereto<lb></lb>
by the Justices of the County of Middx</p>
<p n="174">On the 28th January 1704 A petition of Several Persons Inhabitants of London residing<lb></lb>
near <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo159">Newgate</rs>
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was presented by Mr Alderman Harley one of the Members for the City to<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo160">House of Commons</rs>
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selling forth that the Goal of Newgate was <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo161">the Common</rs>
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Goal for<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo162">City of London</rs>
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and County of Middx That for several years last past there had<lb></lb>
been Community Annis near one Thousand persons committed to the said Goal<lb></lb>
annually two thirds of whom have been <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo163">Middlesex</rs>
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Prisoners That the said Goal<lb></lb>
is a very old ill constructed close and Incommodious Building and in its present<lb></lb>
State unfit for the reception of the Prisoners committed thither That a great number<lb></lb>
of Prisoners had been usually crowded into the said Gaol at the opening of the,<lb></lb>
Several Sessions of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol delivery held at Justice<lb></lb>
Hall in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55605_geo164">Old Bailey</rs>
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That the Petitioners were advised it might be in a great<lb></lb>
Measure attributed to those Causes that the Prisoners in the said Gaol had been,<lb></lb>
frequently visited with a Malignant disease called the Goal distemper by which<lb></lb>
many lives had been lost in the said Goal and said Sessions House being contiguous<lb></lb>
to said Gaol the Health of all persons resorting thereto must be endangered<lb></lb>
That the Petitioners and the several other Persons who reside near the said<lb></lb>
Gaol were greatly annoyed by the noxious Effluvia from said Goal and that<lb></lb>
some was become a most dangerous nusance</p>
<p n="175">The Petition was ordered to lie on the Table which gave reason to<lb></lb>
apprehend that nothing would be done in it but it appearing by the Publick<lb></lb>
Papers that the City were preparing plans of a new Gaol and that a committee<lb></lb>
to whom it had been referr'd to consider of a place for it had reported the old<lb></lb>
Bailey</p>
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