QGR5/26

Minute book of the Visiting Justices [third volume] [see also QGR 4/1-360]. Mentions straw plaiting, female prisoners' diet, tobacco smoke from Debtor's Ward pervading the building, gas, new prisoners' diet. Frontispiece includes prison rules and list of Visiting Justices. Page 26 includes the following:

5 July 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

Philip Hunt, George Cardale. Mr Warner is ordered to separate the convicts into classes and to point out to the Visiting Justices the best means he can devise for preventing the convicts at hard labour from conversing with any other class of prisoners. Thomas Sharp, a desperately wicked and dangerous convict, is ordered to be removed from the treadmill yard, as he is sentenced to imprisonment without hard labour and hereby ordered to be transferred into what is called the female felon ward (now empty) together with Henry Riley, who is unable to work at the treadmill.

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Hunt, Philip,
Cardale, George,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James,
Sharpe, Thomas,
Riley, Henry

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