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<p n="4">Adjournmt. 6 January 17<obscured></obscured>
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<p n="5">Whereas I<obscured></obscured>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-1">Jno. Wilson</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-2">James Gerard</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-3">Anne Allen</rs>
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Edwd. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-4">Gregory Anthony</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-5">Mary Willton</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-6">Jno. Johnson</rs>
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Preferrs for Debt confined in his Maj<del>esties</del>
Pri<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65355_geo2">ye Gate</rs>
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house within the City of Westmr. under ye Custody of <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-7">Francis Geary</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Keeper of the sd. Prison have this day exhibited their humble Petition to this Court<del>the humbly</del>
<lb></lb>
Shewing that ye sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-8">Francis Geary</rs>
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<interp inst="LMWJPS65355_n5-8" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
& his agents have<del>ing</del>
been guilty of Severall Extortious &<lb></lb>
abusses By taking 2d. in ye Shill out of ye Sacramt. money & other Ecclesiasticall charities paid to ye<lb></lb>
Prisoners within ye sd Prison from <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65355_geo3">Westminster Abbey</rs>
<interp inst="LMWJPS65355_geo3" type="placeName" value="Westminster Abbey"></interp>
<interp inst="LMWJPS65355_geo3" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
<del>tha</del>
By Prmitting & ye Turnkey & his wife to<obscured></obscured>
take of ye sd. charities<lb></lb>
By Secreeting Lady Robison's charity, By takeing 6d. of every Prisoner P taking of a<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
gift of Beef & Bread lately given to ye sd.<lb></lb>
Prisoners & by eating part of such Beef & bread in his own family, By not<del>hangs</del>
putting up in the<lb></lb>
sd. Prison a last of the charities thereto belonging, By Stopping £4:10:0 part of a<del>the</del>
charity<del>£4:10:</del>
<lb></lb>
under a prsence of paying a debt due to ye sd. F. Geary from a Felon before any Distribution<lb></lb>
thereof was made & then refusing any part thereof to two of ye Prisoners<del>for debt</del>
then<lb></lb>
confined for debt in ye sd. Prison By neglecting to furnish ye Gaol as it ought to be &<lb></lb>
extorting for<del>ye</del>
his lodgeing & therein more than is allowable by the Statute By Suffering<lb></lb>
Felons & other disorderly persons to come into those<del>Prison</del>
very rooms for which ye sd<lb></lb>
Debtors pay him By extorting from every Prisoner coming into ye sd. Gaol 3s:6d: By pmitting ye<lb></lb>
the<del>his</del>
Turnkey & his wife to threaten to beat ye Prisoners By refusing persons comeing to ye sd Petitioners<lb></lb>
and By suffering ye sd. Prison to be so nasty that there is danger<del>of its</del>
there by of<lb></lb>
breeding an Sickness<del>in ye sd. Gaol</del>
therein and thereby most humbly praying that this Court woud<lb></lb>
appoint a Comittee of Justices to inspect ye sd. Prisoner to Examine into ye facts alledged with<lb></lb>
3d. Petition and give such releif to ye sd. Petitioners as to this Court shall think proper And<lb></lb>
whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-9">John Elphick</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-10">Mary Roberts</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-11">Robt. Paterson</rs>
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<interp inst="LMWJPS65355_n5-11" type="surname" value="Paterson"></interp>
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also Prisoners for debt confined in the sd.<lb></lb>
<note type="authorial" place="margin">meeting</note>
Prison<obscured></obscured>
have likewise exhibited their humble Petition to this Court Shewing That<lb></lb>
Junis a <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65355_occ1">Prisoner</rs>
<interp inst="LMWJPS65355_occ1" type="occupation" value="Prisoner"></interp>
on a criminal Ptecutionfor Stabbing a Man continualy insults the<lb></lb>
last named Petitioners for refuseing to sign Petitions to this Court agt. ye sd. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-12">Francis Geary</rs>
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<interp inst="LMWJPS65355_n5-12" type="gender" value="female"></interp>
<lb></lb>
who they think has not misbehaved himself in his office but has used them wth great<lb></lb>
humanity and that the sd. Junys goes up and down in ye sd. Prison offering money to<del>such of</del>
ye<lb></lb>
Prisoners therein to sign such complaint at tho ye sd. Junys has been used with great Indulgence<lb></lb>
and thereby humbly praying this Court to int pose its authority for their lase & quiet by<lb></lb>
ordering the sd. F. Geary to restrain ye sd. Junis from comeing among their or otherwise to<lb></lb>
releive them as this Court shall think fitt Now this Court takeing the matters<lb></lb>
alledged & conteined in both ye sd. Petitions into Consideration Doth order & it is hereby<lb></lb>
recomended & referred to Sr. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-13">Thos. Cross</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65355_occ2">Bart</rs>
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. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-14">Wm. Cowper</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-15">Jno. Cross</rs>
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A Choke S. <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-16">Savill Jno</rs>
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meard <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-17">Tho Burdus</rs>
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Mich. Margetts Tho Deveil Rea <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-18">Richd: Gifford</rs>
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& <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65355_n5-19">O: Lambert</rs>
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Esqrs.<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65355_occ3">Justices of ye Peace</rs>
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of this City & Liberty & to such other <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65355_occ4">Justices of ye Peace</rs>
<interp inst="LMWJPS65355_occ4" type="occupation" value="Justices of ye Peace"></interp>
of this City &<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65355_geo4">Liberty as</rs>
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shall please to attend or any Five of them & they are hereby desired to meet<lb></lb>
at ye sd. Prison on Friday the Nineteenth day of this month of January at five of the clock in the<lb></lb>
Evening to examine into the matters conteined in both the said Petitions and to report their<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
ion therein to this Court to the<obscured></obscured>
that such farther order may be made thereupon as to this<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
shall seem justify reasonable and it is farther ordered by this Court that two days<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
sd. intended meeting shall be given to every<del>all the</del>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65355_occ5">Justices of ye Peace</rs>
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of the City & Liberty<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
of this Court or<obscured></obscured>
Deputy and that the Clork of ye Peace<del>of the peace</del>
<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
from P. Walter <rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65355_occ6">Esqr<obscured></obscured>
of Peace</rs>
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for ye County of Middx an Authonti<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
wed to be taken<obscured></obscured>
Keeper of ye sd.Person as the<obscured></obscured>
were Settled pursuance<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
act of<obscured></obscured>
the<obscured></obscured>
sd. referees at their<obscured></obscured>
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