QGR4/341

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 341 includes the following:

3 December 1832

From: 1832 To: 1832

Stephen Thornton, Philip Hunt, Thomas Charles Higgins. 40 prisoners. The gaoler reported that he had confined two prisoners, Thomas Brown and James Sawfoot in the sleeping cells for having been detected in playing dice on Sunday morning. They were admonished by the Visiting Justices and ordered to be restored to the common ward tomorrow morning. [Thomas] Hostler, a convict who had been insane, was discharged.

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Hunt, Philip,
Thornton, Stephen,
Higgins, Thomas Charles,
Thornton, Stephen,
Warner,
Short,
Brown, Thomas,
Sawfoot, James,
Hostler, Thomas

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