QGR4/321

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 321 includes the following:

30 July 1832

From: 1832 To: 1832

Philip Hunt. The Gaolers Journal was inspected, by which it appears that James Lankin, an atrocious offender, against whom sentence of death is now recorded, has made an attempt to liberate himself from his irons, but was detected and secured.

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Hunt, Philip,
Warner,
Lankin, James,
Lines, Joseph

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