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In Answer to Your two Letters, Which Illness has occasioned
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my not doing it before, I send you the following Account
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which I hope will be Sattisfactory; In this
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there are two Rooms to Work in, one for Men, the other for
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Woman, Spinning of Wool
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what is Called Hand, and Top Work,
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for making of Bays, is the Work they are Employed in, and
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when they have been Some time under Confinement a person
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may Very Well Earn his Maintenance, at first Coming their
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Earnings bear but a Very Small Propotion; Each Prisoner
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has three pence a Day allowed for Maintenance, which I lay
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out in Bread, Cheese and other Necessaries as may be Suitable
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for their Support, and when they been under long Confinement
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and have Behaved well, I now and then, by Advice of the Justices
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Make an Extra Allowance Which I lay out in an Additional
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Quantity of Provisions or Small Beer as I think proper;
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In their Lodging Rooms, two lay in a Bed, and never more
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then Six in a Room, it possibly I can Avoid it, they have Clean
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Straw once in these Weeks or there abouts, and a Blankett
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or Coverlid to two Persons, Clean Linnen is Allowed to such
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as are Under Long Confinements, And for others if they
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have it, I have it Washed as often, And all other Necessaries
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are provided to keep the Prisoners Clean and from any
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Infections Disorder, If the Prisoners here, are at any
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Time Refractory, I put Such by themselves and if very
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bad, Load them With Irons and so Continue them,
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till they are Penitent and Alter their Behaviour
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I am Sr, Yr Most Humble- Servt to Comd
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April 13th-1786}
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