QGR5/65

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 65 includes the following:

20 January 1834

From: 1834 To: 1834

Philip Hunt, Stephen Thornton. The Gaoler reported that on the 15th January 9 convicts sentenced to transportation were sent to the Ganymede hulk at Woolwich: George Wells - for the term of his natural life. John Hall, Samuel Hudson, Daniel Cook, Joseph Ball, Samuel Daniel, Matthew Parrot, Thomas Francis and John Carpenter for seven years. Being unable to leave Mrs Warner in her present afflicted state he had placed the said convicts under the charge of Charles Clarke and and James Morris, constables of Bedford, and Joseph Tansley and Stephen Prior, formerly constables of Bedford, and they had been safely conveyed to the convict hulks at Woolwich and a receipt oftheir arrival given by the Commander. 58 prisoners.

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Hunt, Philip,
Thornton, Stephen,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James,
Wells, George,
Hall, John,
Hudson, Samuel,
Cook, Daniel,
Ball, Joseph,
Daniel, Samuel,
Parrot, Matthew,
Francis, Thomas,
Carpenter, John,
Clarke, Charles,
Morris, James,
Tansley, Joseph,
Prior, Stephen

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