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Newgate made from the account given by the under Keepers and persons
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belonging to the Keeper thereof at the time when the Committee viewed
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and Examined the said Goal be inserted as part of the Minutes of this
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Memorandums of the State of Newgate made from the
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account given by the under Keepers and Persons belonging to the
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the said Goal
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the Sheriffs attending Found the
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Goal in a ruinous State except the old Calls, in which were only Eleven
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Convicts under Sentence of death and no other Prisoner in the whole Goal
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is the chapel all of which appear in rains except a few Rooms on the
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Mastors side now repairing were told that this Quadrangle before destoryed
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upon an average
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Viewed the South Quadrangle for Women felons found
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it wholly destroyed except part of the Walls and Still laying in the same
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State in which the Rioters left it
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Viewed the North Quadrangle called the Debtors
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Quadrangle which appeared entirely destroyed except part of the Walls. the
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