QGR4/144

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 144 includes the following:

n.d. June 1828

From: 1828 To: 1828

Philip Hunt, George Cardale. The turnkey is suffering under a dangerous attack of ulceration of the membrane of the trachea. The Matron is ordered to make a report of the conduct of Lucy Thompson, confined in the Old House of Correction as a lewd woman, and of the probability of her reformation in order that she may be discharged, if such report be favourable, she having already suffered 23 weeks imprisonment, and the harvest season being near.

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Hunt, Philip,
Cardale, George,
Thompson, Lucy

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