QGR4/136

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 136 includes the following:

24 March 1828

From: 1828 To: 1828

Robert Moore, Philip Hunt The Gaoler reported that the prisoners are in general more orderly since the execution of John Lincoln on Saturday. He also requests the Visiting Justices to authorize him to continue the use of irons on Charles Davies, James Robinson and John Ellard, three convicts who had made a desperate attempt to escape by breaking through the walls of their sleeping cell.

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Moore, Robert,
Hunt, Philip,
Lincoln, John,
Davies, Charles,
Robinson, James,
Ellard, John

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