QGR4/111

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 111 includes the following:

23 July 1827

From: 1827 To: 1827

Philip Hunt, Thomas Barber, Robert Moore. The Gaoler reported that he had safely delivered John Northwood and James White to the convict receiving ship at Sheerness, to be transported. The Gaoler reported that in his presence, during the journey to Sheerness Northwood mentioned in the hearing of James White that he (James White) had once intended to burn down the premises of Mr Gibbs (his prosecutor) at Ampthill, but that he subsequently confined his revenge to destroying the trees and shruubs, for which he was sentenced to transportation.

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Hunt, Philip,
Barber, Thomas,
Moore, Robert,
Northwood, John,
White, James,
Gibbs

BEDFORD, Sheerness, AMPTHILL, Bedford Gaol, House of Correction, gaol, general justices of the peace, prison warden, transportation, treadmill, vaccination, tobacco, BEDFORD, illness, chaplains, gaoler, surgeon, convict labour, imprisonment, felony, arson, trees, shrubs