QGR4/272

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 272-3 includes the following:

12 December 1831

From: 1831 To: 1831

George P Livius, Philip Hunt Ordered that the watchman be continued. The Gaoler stated that Juffs, Brightman and Wallace & Larkin, prisoners in the Gaol charged with felony, had attempted to escape over the wall of the prison The undersigned authorizes the Gaoler to put and to continue irons on those four prisoners until futher orders. Philip Hunt.

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Livius, George P,
Hunt, Philip,
Warner,
Juffs, William,
Brightman, Joseph,
Wallis, Ezekiel,
Lankin, James,
Lankin, Thomas

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