QGR5/28

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 28 includes the following:

22 July 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

Philip Hunt. 47 prisoners. Ordered that John Mann and George harris, who are sentenced to imprionment only, be removed from the treadmill yard to the ward in whichHenry Riley is confined, viz the female felons ward, as they interfere with the discipline of the convicts at the treadmill.

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Hunt, Philip,
Neve, Frederick Hervey,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James,
Mann, John,
Harris, George,
Riley, Henry

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