QGR5/56

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 55-56 includes the following:

11 & 14 December 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

11th December: Frederick H Neve Regrets that the Bedford Visiting Justices fixed so early an hour for inspection. 14th December Stephen Thornton. Agrees with above. it appears by the sugeons report that the wife of Matthiason, one of the Debtors, while admitted to visit her husband had been seized with a violent fit of cataleptic afflictions to which she has been subject and it was considered advisable to remove her.

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Neve, Frederick Hervey,
Thornton, Stephen,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James,
Matthiason

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