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<p n="70">To The Honorble Sir <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65398_n70-1">John Gonson</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65398_occ16">Chairman</rs>
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, & the rest<lb></lb>
of the honorble. bench of Justices of his Majesties Peace Etca.</p>
<p n="71"> <rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65398_n71-1">Edward Gregory</rs>
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aged 83 Years, prisoner<lb></lb>
for Debt in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65398_geo15">Gatehouse Westminster</rs>
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<p n="72">Most humbly Sheweth<lb></lb>
That your honor's Petitr. has been herein confinement Since 17<lb></lb>
August last past in which Space of time all my friends have left me<lb></lb>
I am now in the most deplorable condition imaginable for since 25 May<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65398_n72-1">Fr: Geary</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMWJPS65398_occ17">Keeper</rs>
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has turned me on <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65398_geo16">the Common</rs>
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Side, a place worse than<lb></lb>
the Spanish inquisition it wanting Several material repairs Such as<lb></lb>
the plaistering over head to be help'd Scarsely one can go in to it without pounds<lb></lb>
weights falling on their heads, a Continual dust falling down when any<lb></lb>
one passes over head, one of the windows sd. Fr. Geary has lissened by a half<lb></lb>
alltho, hill barefaced by endeavours affirm that he has made a new window in it<lb></lb>
whereas Sd. window was made when the Goal was built, as may be easily<lb></lb>
seen when compared with the windows adjacent thereto, at sd. window<lb></lb>
there's a Chimney of a Shade all most in a levell wt. Sd. window, which fills<lb></lb>
sd. Common Side with a continued Smoak very insufferable that colipses<lb></lb>
that very little light that's therein. Sd. Shade is a meer imposition & in<lb></lb>
fringement on the privileges of the Jail as well as on <rs type="placeName" id="LMWJPS65398_geo17">the Common</rs>
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passage<lb></lb>
Likewise Sd. Fr. Geary, openly & avowedly, keeps me from the privilege<lb></lb>
of the begging box; which in all Goals is allowed to the Debtors of ye Comon<lb></lb>
side, and he allows people to be partakers of sd box, who by all appearance<lb></lb>
have no need of it & who by on the masters side Etca this he persists in<lb></lb>
alltho' I have demanded my dues Several times of Sd. Geary, or his deputy</p>
<p n="73">Wherefore your honor's petitr. most humbly implore's your<lb></lb>
honor's protection in this imposition, that You would be pleased to take<lb></lb>
into consideration this my wretched state, & as far as is consistant with<lb></lb>
Justice & Equity you would order & command sd. Geary to give me my<lb></lb>
just dues which he has to long kept from me. That sd common Side may<lb></lb>
be repaired, that I or any who come those may n't be indangerously<lb></lb>
being Knocked in the head, or Smoothered in the ruins of a wold<lb></lb>
plaistering Etca. And that the Clause of an act of Parliament Car:<lb></lb>
may be put up in a publick place in the Jail, which sd. Honble.<lb></lb>
Court ordered Sd. Geary to put up sometime ago. & which he promised<lb></lb>
to do, in his petition of 22d. June last (2d. day of Qr. Sesso.) which is<lb></lb>
contempt of Sd. Honble. Court he has left undone, not has he acted<lb></lb>
according to any promise he made in Sd petition. Etca. That felono<lb></lb>
may n't be allowed to come near, nor drink, & nor riot before my door<lb></lb>
place in all ages, that has belonged to Sd. Drs. Common Side, till forcbd,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMWJPS65398_n73-1">Fr: Geary</rs>
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has made new Customs, which before a Lord Chief Justice he</p>
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