QGR5/58

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 58 includes the following:

17 December 1833

From: 1833 To: 1833

George P Livius, Frederick H Neve. The extra trouble occasioned under the circumstances of [John Henry] Mathiasons imprisonment are very considerable. The Gaoler informed that there have been above 30 applications to visit him in one day. The Gaoler having recommended that Skevington th ebaker be employed again for providing bread - leave was granted.

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Livius, George P,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James,
Mathiason, John Henry,
Skevington

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