Orders devised and agreed upon by the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London, the seventh day of March, 1632. for and concerning the good government of the Gaol of Newgate.  
_●N primis, It is ordered that the sum of fifty six pounds eight shillings four pence in Certainty, which is yearly given to the Prisoners in the said Gaol, by charitable gifts and legacies, aswell for their relief, as for their release, shall hereafter be paid, as the same doth grow due, to the Alderman or his Deputy of the Ward of Farringdon within, for the time being, to be distributed four times in the year (viz.) within four days next after every quarter day, for the relief and release of the said Prisoners, according to the true intent and meaning of the Donors, And such Alderman or Deputy to keep a note, what is paid, and what not, to the end that if any of the said money in Certain be detained, it may be recovered by due course of Law.  
Item, That the sum of ten pounds eight shillings per annum, which is weekly paid by the keeper of the Conduit at Newgate, be not hereafter put into the Common Box, nor allowed to the Steward for his salary or Wages, as formerly: But that the same be weekly paid into the hands of the Steward for the time being, for a Stock to be employed towards the bearing of the charge of such necessary disbursments, as shall concern the common good of the said Prisoners: And that the Steward shall weekly give an account in writing under his hand, to the Assistants in the said Gaol, how, and in what manner the monies have been disbursed, and how much thereof shall be remaining in his hands from time to time, to the end they may allow and subscribe the said Account.  
Item, That Henry Woodhouse, the present Steward, be removed, and another nominated and chosen by the major part of the said Prisoners in the Common Gaol, out of those men only that lie there for debt, to continue for one whole year, if he shall, during that time, honestly behave himself in the execution of the said place. In which election, no Keeper, or servant to the Keeper, is to have any voice at all, nor that any menace, constraint or enforcement be used touching the said Election, which is to be approved of by the Sheriffs of London, for the time being.  
Item, That the Steward be no Vnder-keeper, or servant to the Keeper, and that he hereafter only have and receive his former accustomed allowance of twelve pence a week in money, and his double share, and his lodging in the Steward's room as formerly, so long as he performs his office honestly, and account, as aforesaid, The said twelve pence a week to be paid him upon the opening of the Box, and he to make no discharge for any money that shall come to his hands to the Prisoners use, without the privity of the Assistants, and in their presence, and they to sign his Books of Accounts weekly.  
Item, That if such Steward, so to be chosen for one year, shall not well and honestly behave himself in his said place, it may then be lawful for the said Prisoners, to make a new election monthly, as aforesaid, if cause shall so require.  
Item, That all casual charitable relief be put into the said common Box, standing in the Lodge, to which shall be two keys, one to remain with the said Alderman or his Deputy, for the time being; and the other with the said Steward for the time being, that without both the said Keys, the said Box may not be opened.  
Item, That aswell the moneys in the said Box, which is to be opened at the times aforesaid, as also the fifty six pounds eight shillings four pence, in custody of the said Alderman or his Deputy, be by either of them disbursed to the use of the said Prisoners, in presence of the Steward and the Visitors of the said Gaol that shall be appointed, And the Baker's score, aswell that in arreare, as hereafter to be brought in, be then, at the opening of the said Box, first paid by such reasonable payments as the stock will bear.  
Item, That no allowance or defalcation be hereafter made out of the said Box, or other stock of the Prisoners, for candles, ink, paper, pens, mending of locks, keys and hinges of the Gaol, for keeping or looking to the gyves or irons of the Keepers, for the attendance of the Vnder-keepers, or making clean of the houses of office of the said Gaol.