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Middx Session House
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14th Feby 1785
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I was favoured with a letter from your
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directed to you as
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Sheriff to make a return of persons convicted of
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Felonies or Misdemeanors and now under sentence
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of Imprisonment in the Goals and House of Corrections
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with other parties has
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respecting such Convicts in the said Outer expressed
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to do Officially and consequently can give no orders
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with effect to any one concerning it, I beg leave to sug-
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respective keepers of the prisons in the County and in order
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to assist you in that respect you will find subjoined
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the names of the prisons within this County and of
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their respective Keepers.
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I am
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Your very Humble
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