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At the General Quarter Session
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. layd before this Court an Account of the Proceedings in Parliament
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on the Citys of Londons Petitions for rebuilding the Goal of Newgate at the Charge of
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and of the opposition of his Majesties.
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for this County to such Application which Account was read
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An account of the Application of the
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to Parliament
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On the 28th January 1704 A petition of Several Persons Inhabitants of London residing
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was presented by Mr Alderman Harley one of the Members for the City to
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and County of Middx That for several years last past there had
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been Community Annis near one Thousand persons committed to the said Goal
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Prisoners That the said Goal
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is a very old ill constructed close and Incommodious Building and in its present
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State unfit for the reception of the Prisoners committed thither That a great number
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of Prisoners had been usually crowded into the said Gaol at the opening of the,
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Several Sessions of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol delivery held at Justice
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Hall in the
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That the Petitioners were advised it might be in a great
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frequently visited with a Malignant disease called the Goal distemper by which
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many lives had been lost in the said Goal and said Sessions House being contiguous
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to said Gaol the Health of all persons resorting thereto must be endangered
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That the Petitioners and the several other Persons who reside near the said
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The Petition was ordered to lie on the Table which gave reason to
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apprehend that nothing would be done in it but it appearing by the Publick
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Papers that the City were preparing plans of a new Gaol and that a committee
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to whom it had been referr'd to consider of a place for it had reported the old
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