QGR5/47

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 47 includes the following:

13 November 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

Philip Hunt 55 prisoners. Mary [Ann] Courade [aka Conrade, Conreve, Macdonald] has been taken, with her two infant children, to the Numa Transport ship at Woolwich. An allowance of a pound of candles per week from Michaelmas to Lady Day was granted to James Banfield, the Turnkey, on account of the darkness of the Turnkey's apartments.

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Hunt, Philip,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James,
Courade, Mary Ann,
Conrade, Mary Ann,
Conreve, Mary Ann,
Macdonald, Mary Ann

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