QGR5/52

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 51-52 includes the following:

29 November 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

George P Livius, Stephen Thornton, Frederick H Neve. Numbers in each ward might be better equalised. There are 75 prisoners, James Clare is in a dying state and appears quite insensible.

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Neve, Frederick Hervey,
Thornton, Stephen,
Livius, George P,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James,
Clare, James

BEDFORD, Bedford Gaol, House of Correction, gaol, justices of the peace, straw plaiting, tobacco, debt, gas, Quarter Sessions, magistrate, imprisonment, punishment, chaplains, gaoler, turnkey, surgeons, treadmills, crime, game laws, poaching, debtors, disease, transportation, food & drink, DEATH