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<p n="1286"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">October 1778</note>
This being the Case, I must request that You will be pleased<lb></lb>
to particularize tow or three districts within Your County, where the Act<lb></lb>
may be Executed with most Conveynience and Effect</p>
<p n="1287">I shall be very much obliged to You Gentlemen, if You will<lb></lb>
communicate the Contents of this Letter to the Justices who shall attend<lb></lb>
the Michaelmas Quarter Session for their information</p>
<p n="1288">I have the honor to be<lb></lb>
Gentlemen<lb></lb>
Your most Obedient<lb></lb>
humble Servant<lb></lb>
Barrington</p>
<p n="1289">Sheriffs of London<lb></lb>
and Middlesex</p>
<p n="1290">Resolved it is Opinion of his Majestys <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ570">Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace</rs>
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now here assembled that <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1146">Brentford Staines</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1147">Uxbridge</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1147" type="placeName" value="Uxbridge"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1147" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1148">Barnet</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1148" type="placeName" value="Barnet"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1148" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
& <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1149">Enfield</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1149" type="placeName" value="Enfield"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1149" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
the places mentioned in Mr. Clarks Letter<lb></lb>
to the Chairman are the most likely and proper places within this County<lb></lb>
(out of the Bills of Mortality) in which the Act of Parliament for the<lb></lb>
more Easy and better recruiting his Majestys Land Forces and Marind<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
can be carried into Execution</p>
<p n="1291">Resolved that the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ571">Clerk of the peace</rs>
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be desired to<lb></lb>
Transmit the above Resolution to <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1291-1">Richard Clarke</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ572">Esqr</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_occ572" type="occupation" value="Esqr"></interp>
.</p>
<p n="1292">By adjournment Same day</p>
<p n="1293">The Reverend Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1293-1">Richards Chaplin</rs>
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to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1150">New<lb></lb>
Prison</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1150" type="placeName" value="NewPrison"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1150" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
having Exhibited unto this Court a complaint that the prisoners<lb></lb>
confined in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1151">New Prison</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1151" type="placeName" value="New Prison"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1151" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1152">Clerkenwell Bridewell</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1152" type="placeName" value="Clerkenwell Bridewell"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1152" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
are very disorderly<lb></lb>
and ill behaved during the time of Divine Service in the Chapel of the<lb></lb>
said prisons Ordered that it be and it is hereby referred to the<lb></lb>
Committee appointed to carry into immediate and Effectual Execution<lb></lb>
the Repair of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1153">New prison</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1153" type="placeName" value="New prison"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1153" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1154">Clerkenwell</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1154" type="placeName" value="Clerkenwell"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1154" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1155">Bridewell</rs>
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to consider and<lb></lb>
fix upon certain Regulations and Punishments to be made and inflicted<lb></lb>
on those who shall behave in a disorderly and indecent manner in the<lb></lb>
Chapel of the prisons during the Celebration of Divine Service</p>
<p n="1294">By adjournment same day</p>
<p n="1295">The Deputy Clerk of the peace having laid before the<lb></lb>
Court the following Letter which he had received from Mr. <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55607_n1295-1">Richard<lb></lb>
Akerman</rs>
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the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55607_occ573">Keeper of his a Majestys Goal</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1156">Newgate</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55607_geo1156" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
in answer to a<lb></lb>
Copy of the Order of Court made at the last Session in respect to Mr.<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55607_geo1157">Akermans</rs>
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demand of the payment of certain Sums of Money for fees<lb></lb>
which he Supposes due to him from this County under certain Acts of<lb></lb>
Parliament for the discharge and Commitment of certain prisoners<lb></lb>
and the same being Read Vizt.</p>
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