QGR4/306

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 306 includes the following:

28 May 1832

From: 1832 To: 1832

Philip Hunt, Robert Moore James Lankin was brought before the Visiting Justices and the Turnkey deposed finding the blinds of his window shutters loosened and the fastenings of them were subsequently found under his windows. Lankin was also heard in his defence; and it appearing that the injury done to the shuters of the windows was done with the intention of seeing the sports in an adjoining field he was sentenced to one days solitary imprisonment. The Visiting Justices recommend iron window blinds to be substituted in place of the wood ones.

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Hunt, Philip,
Moore, Robert,
Short,
Warner,
Banfield, James,
Lankin, James

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