QGR5/44

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 44 includes the following:

29 & 30 October 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

29 October: Philip Hunt, George Cardale The Gaoler reported that he had received a letter from the Secretary of State, authorising him to liberate Robert Henman, on his own recognisance, without finding sureties. The Gaoler reported that he had hired the Times Coach to convey to the hulks the nine male convicts sentenced to transportation. The Gaoler in person and Mr Tansley, a constable, and Mr Coombs, a constable, will accompany them as guards.

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Hunt, Philip,
Cardale, George,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James,
Henman, Robert,
Tansley,
Coombs

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