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Answer to the Sheriffs second Letter
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19 Septr. 1781
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Sir
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I received your second Lre very late last Night in
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Solder Square the Letter I had the Honor to send you yesterday
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war by the direction of the
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Justices of the peace
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then in Sessions
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assembled. Our Sessions being now ended, as a single Justice I can
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take no Steps contrary to the Resolutions of the Sessions upon the
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Matter at that Time. Permit one however to observe that
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Thos. from the particular Circumstances attending the Gaol of
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Newgate the Sheriff of Middx may lodge his prisoners in the
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New Prison
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Bridewell
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Clerkenwell
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I conceive it to be
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the duty of the Sheriff to keep these prisoners secure; particularly
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as I am informed that your Gaoler the Keeper of Newgate has
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continual Access to his prisoners in the sd. two prisons and disposes
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of them according to the Orders he receives from you, taking fees
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for the same.
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I apprehend the Sheriffs will have no doubt of their
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duty in this matter if they will please to refer to the Stat. of
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7 Geo: 3. c.37. Sect. 6. whereby the Sheriff is directed to
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convey and keep and detain in any prison in London or
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Middx any prisoners who are or by law ought to be committed
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to the County Gaol.and by the last Sect. of the Stat. of
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20 Geo: 3. c. bh "The Sheriffs are to confine any Psons arrested
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"or taken in Execution in any Gaol within the Co: of Midx
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"and such Gaol is to be subject to all such Regulation as County
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Gaols" consequently in that respect under the Care of the
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Sheriffs of the County so far as relates to there prisoners
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I am Sir
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