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<p n="270">May 1784.</p>
<p n="271"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Chapel</note>
"It is in Size 50 Feet by composed of as many Storys as<lb></lb>
there are in the Prisons, and each Story is to be divided by three Brick<lb></lb>
Walls so as to separate the Prisoners into Twelve divisions and the front<lb></lb>
Enclosures so contrived as not to admit them to see each other</p>
<p n="272">"An opening to be raised above the Roof (as P the Elevation) to<lb></lb>
admit Air and Light, upright Ventilators or Ventiducts and Air holes<lb></lb>
fixed on each Side of each Story of the Chapel.</p>
<p n="273">"NB the Lower Story under the same being Arched may<lb></lb>
serve as a Repository for Goods Manufactured Etc especially as the<lb></lb>
Ground will require the foundation to go so low</p>
<p n="274">"The Scite of the present Chapel may be given to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55609_geo216">New Prison</rs>
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<p n="275"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Prisons</note>
Divided into four distinct parts, the two to the right<lb></lb>
intended principally for Females and the two to the left for Males,<lb></lb>
and are to contain the following Classes and number of Prisoners</p>
<p n="276"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
No. 1For Males of the 1st. Class Vizt. Felons and other attro-<lb></lb>
cious offenders convicted, and in the Upper Storys such of<lb></lb>
the 2nd. Class as shall be convicted of lesser Offences in or out of Sessn.<hi rend="braceResult">74</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="277">No. 2For Females of the same description74</p>
<p n="278"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
No. 3For Males of the 3rd. Class Vizt. Such who are charged with<lb></lb>
Felony and are committed for Tryal and such as are<lb></lb>
Evidences for the Crown in the Upper Storys; and such of the<lb></lb>
4th. Class charged with Assaults Misdemeanours Etc in the<lb></lb>
lower Storys party separated in Cells 10. by 7 Feet and<lb></lb>
10 Feet high & partly in small Numbers together<hi rend="braceResult">95</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="279">No. 4.For Females of the same description95</p>
<p n="280"> <hi rend="brace"> <lb></lb>
In all exclusive of those in the two Infirmaries<lb></lb>
and Dangeors<hi rend="braceResult">338</hi>
</hi>
</p>
<p n="281">"As the Number of Females in the third and fourth Classes<lb></lb>
will probably not be equal to the Males it is proposed, that the<lb></lb>
Apprentices Apartments in the Upper Story and Rooms for the better kind<lb></lb>
of Prisoners shall be contained in No. 4.</p>
<p n="282"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Working Rooms</note>
Four on each side of the Court Yard 30 Feet by 21 Feet<lb></lb>
detached from each Prison and communicating therewith by Open Passages<lb></lb>
with the Turnkeys Lodges at the Entrances thereof Two of the said Rooms to<lb></lb>
be applied to each Prison and to be unconnected with each other. These<lb></lb>
may again be subdivided</p>
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