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In Answer to Your two Letters, Which Illness has occasioned<lb></lb>
my not doing it before, I send you the following Account<lb></lb>
which I hope will be Sattisfactory; In this <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50809_geo1765">House of Correction</rs>
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there are two Rooms to Work in, one for Men, the other for<lb></lb>
Woman, Spinning of Wool <obscured></obscured>
what is Called Hand, and Top Work,<lb></lb>
for making of Bays, is the Work they are Employed in, and<lb></lb>
when they have been Some time under Confinement a person<lb></lb>
may Very Well Earn his Maintenance, at first Coming their<lb></lb>
Earnings bear but a Very Small Propotion; Each Prisoner<lb></lb>
has three pence a Day allowed for Maintenance, which I lay<lb></lb>
out in Bread, Cheese and other Necessaries as may be Suitable<lb></lb>
for their Support, and when they been under long Confinement<lb></lb>
and have Behaved well, I now and then, by Advice of the Justices<lb></lb>
Make an Extra Allowance Which I lay out in an Additional<lb></lb>
Quantity of Provisions or Small Beer as I think proper;<lb></lb>
In their Lodging Rooms, two lay in a Bed, and never more<lb></lb>
then Six in a Room, it possibly I can Avoid it, they have Clean<lb></lb>
Straw once in these Weeks or there abouts, and a Blankett<lb></lb>
or Coverlid to two Persons, Clean Linnen is Allowed to such<lb></lb>
as are Under Long Confinements, And for others if they<lb></lb>
have it, I have it Washed as often, And all other Necessaries<lb></lb>
are provided to keep the Prisoners Clean and from any<lb></lb>
Infections Disorder, If the Prisoners here, are at any<lb></lb>
Time Refractory, I put Such by themselves and if very<lb></lb>
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bad, Load them With Irons and so Continue them,<lb></lb>
till they are Penitent and Alter their Behaviour<lb></lb>
I am Sr, Yr Most Humble- Servt to Comd <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50809_n2023-1">Robt Baker</rs>
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April 13th-1786}</p>
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