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<p n="1314">but hamanity, that the Wife<del>of</del>
one of the Prisoners had applied to him<lb></lb>
and told him that she had made application to the Secretary of State<lb></lb>
to get her Husband and one Jones and one Palmer discharged out of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50881_geo739">Clerkenwell Bridewell</rs>
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but that it could not be done without a Certificate<lb></lb>
from the apothecary, that he thought he<del>could</del>
shared not give a<del>particular</del>
partial Account of<lb></lb>
the Prisoners situation,<del>but that he ought to give a particular account of the<lb></lb>
Prisoners situation,</del>
but that he ought to give an Account of the whole of the<lb></lb>
Lottery people, and upon those Principles intirely he wrote that Certificate and<lb></lb>
transmitted it to Mr Gibbes for his approbation and Signature: He was then<lb></lb>
asked now he came to state any thing more in the Certificate them related to<lb></lb>
the Health of the Prisoners He sayd he thought Humanity obliged him<lb></lb>
upon all occasions to endeavour to obtain the discharge of Prisoners at all<lb></lb>
times if he could do it, if it were even an hour before their times of<lb></lb>
Imprisonment would expire</p>
<p n="1315">Resolved it is the opinion of this Committee that any<lb></lb>
interference of the Surgeon and apothecary attending the Prisoners in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50881_geo740">new<lb></lb>
prison</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50881_geo741">Clerkenwell Bridewell</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50881_geo741" type="placeName" value="Clerkenwell Bridewell"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50881_geo741" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
in respect to their punishment or<lb></lb>
length of Imprisonment is highly improper and that he ought in no case<lb></lb>
to Certify any other matter than what relates to the health of the Prisoners &<lb></lb>
then only upon receiving a Requisition from Government or the Magistrates of<lb></lb>
the County for that purposes and that when any such Requisition should<lb></lb>
come officially from Government he ought immediately to lay the same<lb></lb>
before the Chairman of the Session.</p>
<p n="1316">Resolved it appears to this Committee that the Sick Prisoners<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50881_geo742">new prison</rs>
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and the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50881_geo743">House of Correction</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50881_geo743" type="placeName" value="House of Correction"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50881_geo743" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50881_geo744">Clerkenwell</rs>
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are attended by<lb></lb>
Mr Chamberlayne as the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50881_occ407">Assistant</rs>
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or deputy to Mr Gibbes the Person appointed<lb></lb>
for that purpose by the County and very seldom by Mr Gibbes himself</p>
<p n="1317">Resolved it is the Opinion of this Committe that Mr<lb></lb>
Gibbes the <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50881_occ408">Surgeon</rs>
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and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50881_occ409">Apothecary</rs>
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to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50881_geo745">New Prison</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50881_geo745" type="placeName" value="New Prison"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50881_geo745" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
and <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50881_geo746">House of<lb></lb>
Correction</rs>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50881_geo746" type="placeName" value="House ofCorrection"></interp>
<interp inst="LMSMPS50881_geo746" type="type" value="undefined"></interp>
at <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50881_geo747">Clerkenwell</rs>
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ought to attend the Sick prisoners in the<lb></lb>
said Prisons himself and not by Deputy.</p>
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