QGR4/15

Minute Book of the Visiting Justices' weekly meetings [second Volume]. Contains information on prisoners' numbers, health, and conduct, officers' conduct, contracts for supplies, those awaiting transportation, etc. Page 15 includes the following:

12th June 1825 - 21st June 1825

From: 1825 To: 1825

Robert Moore, George Cardale: 12th June: Keeper reported Edward Martin, Thomas Brandon and William Simons had conducted themselves tolerably well since their release from solitary confinement. All prisoners well except Tyrell & Brown but they are recovering. Robert Moore, Philip Hunt: 21st June: Thomas Cook, Oliver Leach and William Bass having been convicted of scaling the walls of their yard were sentenced as follows: Oliver Leach & William Bass to one month solitary imprisonment, three days of which in the refractory cell and Thomas Cook to a fortnioght solitary confinement in his sleeping cell.

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Hunt, Philip,
Moore, Robert,
Cardale, George,
Martin, Edward,
Brandon, Thomas,
Simons, William,
Tyrell,
Brown,
Cook, Thomas,
Leach, Oliver,
Bass, William

BEDFORD, Bedford Gaol, House of Correction, gaol, justices of the peace, prison warden, transportation, treadmills, vaccination, tobacco, BEDFORD, illness, chaplains, gaoler, surgeons, escape from prisons