Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QGR1/19/1
  • Title
    Mortgage and Charge at County rate for securing repayment of 550, between the County Justices and Thomas Barnard of Bedford, banker, 17 Oct 1848. This sum is part of 16,500 needed to enlarge the gaol and rebuild the House of Correction, which Thos Barnard has agreed to lend and which is to be repaid yearly in 30 sums of 550
  • Date free text
    1848-1849
  • Production date
    From: 1848 To: 1849
  • Scope and Content
    30 separate mortgages were made: nos 1-12 (to be repaid 1849-1860) nos 11-20 (to be repaid 1859-1868) [note: for nos 11 and 12 both the top copy and counterpart are present] Receipts of Thos Barnard for ten mortgages dated 17 Oct 1848 and numbered 11-20, and 21-30 dated 2 January 1849 Letter from Matron, Mrs M A Tregenza, on her dismissal, asking for a gratuity, 13 Oct 1848 Letter from Mr Bonfield, Keeper of the House of Correction, asking for compensation for fruit trees cut down in his garden, due to the alterations, presented to Michaelmas Sessions, 1848 Letter from W Skinner, late turnkey, at the County Gaol, asking for a pension, he 'having lost all privilege in the Bedford Charity', 16 Oct 1848 Reductions made in the calculations of the cost of Borough prisoners on account of charges incurred for reception of Government convicts (cost given-clothing, books, millboards, brushes and combs, etc) Epiphany Sessions, 1851 Account of monies paid by Prison Building Committee from Midsummer to Michaelmas 1848 (total 7107 4s 9d) Report of Committee 'to communicate with the Landed Propietors on the subject of the Prisons Loan'-2 letters produced, the Duke of Bedford in favour and Chas Gillies Payne against, 31 July 1848 (with copy of Duke's letter dated 23 July 1848) [For Sir G Payne's letter see QGR1/21] Supplement to the [London] Times, 7 April 1848, requesting further tenders for Prison, as previous ones not approved Special edition of the Bedfordshire Times, reporting on a County Meeting on subject or proposed new Gaol, 1 April 1848 Petition from Ampthill ratepayers against altering the gaol, on gorunds of cost, 31 March 1848
  • Level of description
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