QGR5/53

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 53 includes the following:

2 December 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

George Cardale 75 male prisoners, 4 female prisoners. The Gaoler reported that this morning a Juryhad been assembled here to enquire into the death of James Clare, who died yesterday and the verdict is that he died a natural death, his age was 82. He had been 32 times committed to this or some other House of Correction for poaching but his last commitment to this gaol was for felony, He was tried at the last Assizes and sentenced to imprisonment here for 6 calendar months. Eleven men have been committed to this place since the 25th November fro various offences.

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Cardale, George,
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