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Poor Prisoners Act 1666
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III.Mayor. &c. may remove Prisoners in time of Contagion; and raise a Stock.
Provided alsoe and bee it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Maior Bayliffe and other Head Officer or any other person and persons who have and hath the Custodie of the Coo[m]mon Goale within any Corporation of this Kingdome and Dominion of Wales shall by and with the advice of three or more Justices of Peace within the said Corporation whereof one of them be of the Quorum in time of Infection have the like power and authoritie for removeing his and their Prisoners into some other convenient place within their Jurisdiction as to them shall seeme fitt dureing the time of Infection, And alsoe to raise a Stocke after the same rates and proportions as is herein before allowed to and for the severall Countyes [X1of] this Kingdome.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: within O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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