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QGR5/8
Title
Minute book of the Visiting Justices [third volume] [see also QGR 4]. Records their weekly visits to the Gaol, with numbers of prisoners, notes on some individual prisoners, their responses to complaints and reports from the Gaoler, Turnkey, Matron and Surgeon. Mentions execution, transportation, debtors, cases of typhus, ague and smallpox, use of the treadmill, provision of food and drink for prisoners, adaptations to the prison buildings, classification of prisoners, and attempted and successful escapes from the prison. Page 8 includes the following:
Date free text
6 May 1833
Production date
From: 1833 To: 1833
Scope and Content
Philip Hunt, George Cardale, Thomas Charles Higgins. 54 prisoners. The Gaoler laid before the Visiting Justices the commuted sentences of the following convicts, viz: 1) George Farey, capitally convicted of robbery to be transported for life. 2) Henry Riley, capitally convicted of house breaking, to be kept at hard labour for two years in the Old House of Correction. 3) Thomas Brown, capitally convicted of robbery, to be transported for life. 4) William Dudley, convicted of house breaking, to be kept at hard labour for two years in the Old House of Correction. [Joseph] Lines, who had been released from solitary confinement is reported by the Surgeon to be languid, but not to shew any penitence. He has been a year in prison, a month in solitary confinement.
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