QGR5/57

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 57 includes the following:

17 December 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

George P Livius, Frederick H Neve. 71 male prisoners, 4 female prisoners. Three prisoners have been committed during the last week and three discharged.

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Livius, George P,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James,
Matthiason

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