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<p n="386"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">September 1775</note>
By adjournment Same day</p>
<p n="387">Resolved that is be recommended to his Majesty<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ162">Justices of the peace</rs>
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acting in and for this Division that in future<lb></lb>
they do commit such persons only as are guilty of small offences<lb></lb>
to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo403">New Prison</rs>
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and those for capital felonies to Newgate the<lb></lb>
County Goal</p>
<p n="388">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="389">The Keepers of the Justices Prisons having represented<lb></lb>
to the Court that there is no place at present appropriated at the<lb></lb>
New Session House in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo404">Old Bailey</rs>
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where prisoners in their Custody<lb></lb>
carried there as Evidences for the Crown can be with Safety kep<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
All they are called upon which is frequently many hours and <obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
times the whole day that hitherto the Keepers have been obliged<lb></lb>
to attend with such prisoners at some publick House in the Neighbours<lb></lb>
and the trials May sometimes come on in which they said Prisoners<lb></lb>
may be concerned as Witnesses and the Keepers from their distance<lb></lb>
from the Session House be not apprized fit and thus the benefit of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo405">Widene<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
the Crown</rs>
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may in some Cases be Lost and Capital & notorcons offenders sometimes escape Justice and<lb></lb>
all Events the Goaley <obscured></obscured>
to the damages having their prisoners Exat</p>
<p n="390">Resolved that the Chairman be desired to make<lb></lb>
the Court at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo406">Old Bailey</rs>
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acquainted with these Circumstance<lb></lb>
and beg that the Court there would make such provision as may<lb></lb>
seem meet for remedying the inconvenience Complained of</p>
<p n="391">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="392">Resolved that the following Gentlemen be added to<lb></lb>
the Committee appointed to carry into immediate and Effectual<lb></lb>
Execution the Repair of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo407">New Prison</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo408">Clerkenwell Bridewell</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Vizt.</p>
<p n="393"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n393-1">William Balckborow</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n393-1" type="given" value="William"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n393-1" type="surname" value="Balckborow"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n393-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n393-2">William Kitchiner</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n393-2" type="given" value="William"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n393-2" type="surname" value="Kitchiner"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n393-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
Thomas Fryon Cotton<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n393-3">Samuel Wood</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n393-3" type="given" value="Samuel"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n393-3" type="surname" value="Wood"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n393-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n393-4">William Blackmore</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n393-4" type="given" value="William"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n393-4" type="surname" value="Blackmore"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n393-4" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
</p>
<p n="394"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n394-1">James Croft</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-1" type="given" value="James"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-1" type="surname" value="Croft"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n394-2">David Walker</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-2" type="given" value="David"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-2" type="surname" value="Walker"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n394-3">Robert Butler</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-3" type="given" value="Robert"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-3" type="surname" value="Butler"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-3" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n394-4">William Quarrill</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-4" type="given" value="William"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-4" type="surname" value="Quarrill"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-4" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n394-5">John Stapler</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-5" type="given" value="John"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-5" type="surname" value="Stapler"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_n394-5" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
Esqr.</p>
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