QGR4/145

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 145 includes the following:

27 June 1828

From: 1828 To: 1828

Philip Hunt. He was informed by the gaoler that on Saturday last Charlotte Lovell was committed on the charge of setting fire to her Master's house at Husborne Crawley. thate there being no female prisoner in the gaol at the time of her arrival, and the said anguish of mind, and falling into swooning fits on entering the prison, she was confined in the female ward to the Old House of Correction in this prison, where thee were other female prisoners, who may attend to her and prevent her suffering solitary confinement.

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Hunt, Philip,
Cardale, George,
Lovell, Charlotte

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