QGR4/50

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 50 includes the following:

20 March 1826

From: 1826 To: 1826

Philip Hunt, Robert Moore: The Governor repored that all the prisoners who had been vaccinated had taken the cowpox and were doing well, and that [William] Symons who had been affected with natural smallpox is recovered. The Infirmary room...has been cleaned and fumigated. The two Bygraves [Thomas & William Bygraves from Biggleswade] were removed to Newgate to be tried at the Old Bailey.

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Hunt, Philip,
Moore, Robert,
Symons, William,
Bygraves, Thomas,
Bygraves, William

BEDFORD, BIGGLESWADE, London Newgate, Bedford Gaol, House of Correction, gaol, general justices of the peace, prison warden, transportation, treadmill, vaccination, tobacco, BEDFORD, illness, chaplains, gaoler, surgeon, convict labour, burglary, smallpox, cowpox, vaccination, DEATH