1724
In August 1724, Gervase Scrope was, with John, Lord Tyrconnel,the Honble. Charles and Albemarle Bertie, the Honble. Thomas Saunderson, Sirs William Ellis, John Tyrwhitt, Francis Whichcote, Cecil Wray, and William Monson, Barts., Charles Pelham, Francis Anderson, William Gilby, Joseph Banks, senior and junior, Richard Ellis, John Monson, Thomas Chaplin, Thomas Whichcote, Matthew Boucheret, Edmund Tumor, Thomas Payne, Humphrey Thayer, Robert Viner, Gervase Nevill, and William Ambler,Esquires, a trustee, to whom the Crown granted the office of "Keepers of the Castle of Lincoln, and of the Gaol there," as well as of the house near the Castle called the Shere House, for the use of the County for thirty years at a rent of ten shillings yearly; they being bound to maintain one sufficient and convenient Prisonor Gaol for the safe custody of all prisoners for whom it might be needed.
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