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 296 THE GAOL AND THE BOROUGH PRISON. discharge] had been confined three years by the Ecclesiastical Court, and had three children in the gaol. There is no table of fees. In the mayor's account for 1773-4 is the entry, "Paid Goadly the printer for advertising Mr. Robert Bennett's declaration, that no epidemical disorder reigned in the gaol at Launceston, 4s. 4d." Mr. Bennett was the surgeon. In the account for 1775-6 appears a payment of 13s. 4d. for " engrossing a petition to the Lords of the Treasury about repairing the gaol." Mr. Howard says, " The King of his royal bounty offered £2,500 towards a new gaol, but nothing had been done by the county in 1776. In 1779 five hundred pounds of the King's bounty was appropriated to this gaol. In a passage 5^ feet wide there were for men four new cells (8 feet by 6J, and 8 feet 4 inches high), a dayroom, and a court. Over these rooms are the gaoler's apartments. Adjoining is the old gaol, which is for women, and the court is made secure ; no water. The mayor sends the prisoners weekly one shilling's worth of bread ; no memorial of the legacy in the gaol. Transports had not the King's allowance of 2s. 6d. a week." The borough prison was for several centuries over the South Gate. On the 5th February, 1883, the police forces of the borough and county were consolidated.