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<p n="258">May 1784.</p>
<p n="259">Mr Leroux also produced to the Committee a Paper<lb></lb>
purporting to be an explanation of Plan A of which the followg. is a Copy<lb></lb>
"A General Description of the Design made for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo211">Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo212">Bridewell</rs>
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<p n="260">"Principal Story (raised Four feet above the Level of the adjoing Street)</p>
<p n="261"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Entrance</note>
"A Gateway detached from the inclosing Wall or Rails with<lb></lb>
framed Close Gates in front, and framed Open Gates next the Court<lb></lb>
Yard over which a Tower, Guns, Alarm Bell, and Clock with a Way up<lb></lb>
thereto from between the Gates; from the Platform adjoining the Court<lb></lb>
and different entrances may be guarded.</p>
<p n="262">"On the right hand the Surgeons Apartment; and on the<lb></lb>
left a Lodge for some of the Keepers and to attend the entrance</p>
<p n="263">"Underneath the said Entrance by means of the ad-<lb></lb>
joining Stair Case, a place Arched and sufficiently Airy to put<lb></lb>
the Prisoners in when necessary till examined by the Surgeon with<lb></lb>
a fumigating Apartment for them and their Cloaths, and a Bath<lb></lb>
adjoining which occasionally may be heated.</p>
<p n="264">"The Part above this Building (being only one Story)<lb></lb>
affords a free currency of Air from the Fields</p>
<p n="265"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Middle Court</note>
"Is in size 85 Feet by 50 Feet from which are the entrances<lb></lb>
to the four Prisons and a Way to the Governours house</p>
<p n="266">"In the Center of which sentences to be put into execution<lb></lb>
and under part thereof near the house Reporitories for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo213">New River</rs>
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Water with a Means of forcing up the same.</p>
<p n="267">"In the Court Yard Pumps of Spring Water the same to be<lb></lb>
supplied from the different Springs now belonging to the Premises</p>
<p n="268"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Governours House</note>
& "Situated facing the principal Entrance and those in-<lb></lb>
tended to the four separate Prisons as also of the Working Yards<lb></lb>
adjoining and a secure and private retreat therefrom. The House<lb></lb>
enclosed in front with detached Iron Cast Rails spiked.</p>
<p n="269">"It is composed of the necessary Apartmts. for a Family with<lb></lb>
Passages enclosed on each side to the Working Grounds and the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo214">Chapel</rs>
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from the Stair Case. Within the House is an Opening for the<lb></lb>
use of the Governours family, and from whence he can command<lb></lb>
the whole of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo215">the Chapel</rs>
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