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May 1784
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Part of The Building
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may be executed on The
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Quaters Ground immediately
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"By this plan it appears that one part may be
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executed on the Quakers Ground immediately and the Prisoners
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removed thereto and the other with equal Propriety when the
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Buildings are hereafter taken down.
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"It appears by this Design that a Currency of Air a
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preserved through the whole Plan and also a Connection with
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the external Air
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Adjoing Lend may be had
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of the Woodbridge Corporate}
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"Adjoining Land may be had of the
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Woodbridge
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Corporation which will extend the Drying Ground Airing
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Ground Etc Etc..
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"Upon due Consideration It is the Opinion of
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Your Committee that the Plan marked A is the best of those
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produced and is a very proper Plan of a House of Correction
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for this County adapted to the Ground purchased by the
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Quakers
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"Your Committee then requested Mr Leroux to
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lay before them at their next Meeting an Estimate of the
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expence of carrying the Plan marked A into execution
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in consequence of which Mr Laroux laid before Your
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Committee a paper of which the following is a Copy.
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Estimate of ye Designs
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made for & appr and
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by the Commee of
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His Majesties Justices
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for a House of Correctn}
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"An Estimate of the Designs made for and
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approved by the Committee of His Majestys Justices of the
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Peace for the
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for the building a New
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Bridewell
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House of Correction
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in the said County.
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To Build and Compleat that part of the
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Design that can at this immediate time be put in
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Execution and to which the Prisoners may be first
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removed containing the East Prisons marked 1 and
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3 intended for the Males together with the
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Infirmary belonging thereto and the enclosing
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three Courts adjoining will amount to the Sum of}£6713..-..-
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