QGR4/203

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 203 includes the following:

7 Dec 1829

From: 1829 To: 1829

George Cardale, Thomas Barber, Philip Hunt, Robert Moore 70 prisoners. The Gaoler reported that all the prisoners have behaved in an orderly manner, with the exception of some person (probably a debtor) having thrown some meat from a window in the Debtors ward to some criminals in a yard below, who were detected in boiling it. The Gaoelr reported that [James] Storrs, whose imprisonment has just expired, has been guilty of a second fraud and forgery in applying under false pretences to the wife of a prisoner named [Robert] Trng at Leighton Buzzard, and obtaining money from her.

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Moore, Robert,
Cardale, George,
Barber, Thomas,
Hunt, Philip,
Tring, Robert,
Storrs, James

BEDFORD, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, 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, magistrate, turnkey, matron, mental health, debtor, meat