The chamberlain, who is chosen by the
keeper of the prison, takes care of all the
bedding and linen belonging to the keep-
er; places men at their coming in; fur-
nishes them with sheets, and gives notice
to the strangers to leave the prison by ten
o'clock at night.  This officer was for-
merly obliged to make the charity mens
beds, for which he received two pence a
month.

The running post's employment is
fetching in a basket the broken meat from
the Lord Mayor's table, provisions from
the clerk of the market, private families,
and charities given in the streets; which
when so inconsiderable as not to admit of
being divided among them all, are pub-
licly sold, as before.  The salary annexed
to this office is 4s. a month; one penny
out of each man's dividend, and one pen-
ny out of every sixteen pence of garnish
money.

The criers are six in number; two of
whom daily beg at the grates: he at the
grate within, is allowed one fourth of
what is given, and he at that on Black-
friars side, one half of what is given
there.

The Monday after every monthly elec-
tion, the accounts are audited and passed,
and the balance divided; but if it amounts
to 3s. 4d. per man, the keeper of the pri-
son, says our author, arbitrarily extorts
from each prisoner 2s. 4d. without the
least colour of right: but if the dividend
rises not so high, he then only takes
1s. 2d. the other moiety of the 2s. 4d.
being charged to the prisoners account, to
be paid at the time of his discharge.
Another great grievance the prisoners la-
bour under, is, their being obliged to pay
the turnkey 12s. per month, for no other
service than that of opening the door to
let in gifts and charities sent to the prison,
which often amount to little more than
what he receives.  Johnson's Description
of Ludgate.

It is, however, necessary to inform the
reader, that this account was printed many
years ago; and indeed it is to be hoped
that these grievances are already remedied;
if they are not, it is high time that they
were; for here justice and humanity
loudly call for a reformation.

The annual sums paid to this prison by
the several companies, and other regular
benefactions, amount to upwards of 62l.
besides a hind quarter of beef and a peck
of oatmeal from the tallow chandlers