At the coming in of every prisoner 1s.
to the turnkey, and 2d. to the officer who
conducts him thither.

The keeper finding and providing beds,
bedding, mats and cords, sheets, blankets,
and coverlets, the prisoners pay him for the
best lodging 3d. per night; for the second
lodging 2d. and for the third or meanest
lodging 1d. per night.

The keeper is to provide clean sheets
every month for all his beds, and the pri-
soners who lie in them are to pay monthly
to the chamberlain for washing them, 8d.
between them, and no more.

But when the prisoners find their own
beds and bedding, which the keeper is by
no means to hinder, the prisoner is only to
pay 3d. per week for bed-room; or for
chamber-room 4d. at the most per week;
and not above two to lie in a bed.

If the prisoner by his inability can go

For every prisoner's discharge the keep-
er is to receive 2s. and no more.  For all
actions and writs against him he is to pay
the keeper only 1s. and not 1s. for every
action, and 2s. 6d. for every writ, as was
formerly taken.

The keeper shall not presume to take
any other fees upon any pretence, demand,
or allowance whatsover, for execution-
money, action-money, or writ-money.

By the following account the reader
may see how these orders are now obeyed.

A freeman of London being arrested
by an action entered in either of the
Compters, may refuse to go thither, and
insist on being carried immediately to
Ludgate; but the officers will extort from
him 4 or 5s. as their fee for carrying him
thither, though their due is but 2d.

On his being brought to Ludgate, the
turnkey enters his name and addition in a
book kept for that purpose; for which
entry the prisoner pays 1s. 2d. after which