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<p n="808">To His Majesty's Justices assigned to deliver the goal of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo850">Newgate</rs>
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of the Prisoners therein being at their General Session of goal<lb></lb>
Delivery of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo851">Newgate</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo852">County of Middlesex</rs>
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<del>at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo853">Justice Hall</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo854">Old Bailey</rs>
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in the Jabarbs of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo855">City of London</rs>
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assembled</p>
<p n="809">The Representation of His Majesty's<lb></lb>
Justices assigned to keep the peace in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo856">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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and also to hear and determine<lb></lb>
divers Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeme-<lb></lb>
anours committed in the same County in<lb></lb>
General Session assembled</p>
<p n="810"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sheweth</note>
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That since the late Dreadful Riots and Destruction of the<lb></lb>
goal of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo857">Newgate</rs>
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, <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo858">New Prison</rs>
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at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo859">Clerkenwell</rs>
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hath been made use of as<lb></lb>
the County goal for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo860">Middlesex</rs>
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. <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo861">New Prison</rs>
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originally was designed<lb></lb>
only for the Imprisonment of offenders and Malefactors other than<lb></lb>
for Capital crimes of Treason, and Felony; and is a Brick building<lb></lb>
not calculated for the Reception and safe keeping of so great a number<lb></lb>
of Persons as have lately been sent to the said Prison: That since the late<lb></lb>
Riots not only all Prisoners of such description as well usually before that<lb></lb>
time committed to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo862">Newgate</rs>
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for Trial, but also the greater part of those<lb></lb>
who have been tried at the<del> <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo863">Old Bailey</rs>
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Session of Goal Delivery and received the Judgment<lb></lb>
of the Law for Capital and other offences, an lodged thereby the Sheriffs, or<lb></lb>
their Officers, for Security. That many of those confined in the said Prison, particularly<lb></lb>
<del>these</del>
of this last description having received Judgment of Death, but being<lb></lb>
Reprieved or having experienced some other mark of his Majesty's. Royal<lb></lb>
Clemency, have become most licensious and dissolute, are unduly and<lb></lb>
Riotous to a very daring degree, continually committing the most outrageous<lb></lb>
acts, endeavouring to effect their Escape, and encouraging others to join with<lb></lb>
them in their desperate designs; it being impossible from the construction<lb></lb>
of the Prison to keep them separate From their numbers at all times they<lb></lb>
are with difficulty controled;<del>and are</del>
frequency not to be governed without<lb></lb>
the most coercive exertions,and in their Endeavour's to escape<del>they are</del>
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not to be detered but by the use of Fire Arms In such an attempt lately<lb></lb>
made to offence<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
for deal Escape notwithstanding<del>Three Prisoners ever unfortunately Killed and Three more</del>
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Notices Sands<del>wounded in preventing a General Escape intended tho</del>
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the Keeper of the<lb></lb>
Prison, who had received Information of their intentions,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
expostulated<lb></lb>
with them, in treated them to remain quiet, and warned them of their<lb></lb>
Dunger and the means he must use if they persisted in their designs<lb></lb>
three Prisoners of unfortunately Killed and there more</p>
<p n="811">Such being the stake of the Prison, His Majesty's Justices<lb></lb>
of the peace for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50744_geo864">County of Middlesex</rs>
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think if their duty<lb></lb>
to submit to the Consideration of the Justices of Goal delivery,<lb></lb>
whether it is not expedient that some other place of<lb></lb>
Confinement of Capital felons should be provided apprenhending<lb></lb>
the most dreadful consequences may ensue as well from sickness<lb></lb>
in the Goal by reason of the great Numbers confined therein as from<lb></lb>
the determined Resolution which seems to prevail among the<del>said</del>
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Prisoners of attempting a General Escape.</p>
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