QGR4/171

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 171 includes the following:

9 February 1829

From: 1829 To: 1829

Philip Hunt, Robert Moore. The surgeon's journal reported the prisoner Lovell to be ill of typhus fever. The convict [James) Burns, who had been guilty of fraudulently obtaining money by a counterfeit pass, and who had subsequently broken prison, and has shewn great dexterity and cunning, applied to the Justices for shoes, clothing and money to enable him to reach Great Yarmouth. But as his settlement appears to be in Scotland, the Visiting Justices could only have granted a pass to Scotland, and fearing that notwithstanding the utmost precaution he may pervert any pass that could be made out to fraudulent purposes they have preferred ordering him a pair of shoes & stockings and five shillings in money to be furnished him by the Gaoler on his discharge.

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Moore, Robert,
Hunt, Philip,
Lovell,
Burns, James

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