QGR4/360

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 360 includes the following:

12 & 13 April 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

George Cardale, Philip Hunt A communication having been made into the undersigned Visiting Justices that the hild of a female convict, Mary Anne Conreve [Courade] had been delivered over by her to one James Macdonald, its reputed father, on the assurance given by himn that it should be provided for, by some relation residing at Welwyn, but it appearing that the said James Macdonaldd is now imprisoned at Cambridge as a rogue and vagabond, that he has assumed the name ofSmith, and that the child is now in prison at Cambridge with him. It is ordered that mr Warner the gaoler do engage a fit & proper female to to to Cambridge to bring the said little girl, now 15 months old, back to its mother, the journey to be defrayed by the County of Bedford. 13th April The child was brought back, in compliance with the above order. The Matron of this prison having represented the state of the infant child above mentioned to be very pitiable, the reputed father having sold its clothes, and used it as an instrument for begging, the undersigned Visiting Justices feel themselves required to order the Matron to furnish some necessary coarse articles of clothing for the infant during its continuance in prison.

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Hunt, Philip,
Cardale, George,
Warner,
Short,
MacDonald, James,
Smith, James,
Conreve, Mary Ann

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