QGR4/296

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 296 includes the following:

23 April 1832

From: 1832 To: 1832

Thomas Charles Higgins, Philip Hunt, John Leete, George Cardale, Frederick H Neve, Robert Moore, George P Livius, Samuel Charles Whitbread. It has often been said that young and inexperienced convicts have been taught by old offenders in the Bedfordshire Houses of Corerction to make snares and to set them with greater skill; and to commit crimes with greater cunning than if they had never been sent to prison. Thr duties of the Turnkey frequently requiring him to attend to the interior of the mill, and to the grinding and dressing of flour; and not infrequently to act in the capacity of groom or stable manager to the Gaoler as the ill state of health of that Officer and or his wife seem to require them to be frequently abssent from the prison, in their gig, during the daytime for air and a change of scene.

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Hunt, Philip,
Higgins, Thomas Charles,
Neve, Frederick Hervey,
Livius, George P,
Leete, John,
Cardale, George,
Whitbread, Samuel Charles,
Moore, Robert,
Short,
Warner

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