Order in the Hilary Ouarter Sessions that the sum of £600 be levied and raised for paying off part of the mortgage drawn upon the county rates for building the new gaol Thomas Penson, Architect, one of the mortgagees to be paid £500 and that the £100 left be used to defray interest due on several mortgages drawn on the county rate. Further ordered that a seperate account called the Gaol Account be set up. 18 January 1799