An act for better preventing the severities and unjust exactions practised by gaolers against their prisoners  and for more effectually supporting Prosecutions at the Suit of the Crown, in cases of Felony and Treason.

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An act for better preventing the severities and unjust exactions practised by gaolers against their prisoners and for more effectually supporting Prosecutions at the Suit of the Crown, in cases of Felony and Treason.