QGR5/73

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 73 includes the following:

24 February 1834

From: 1834 To: 1834

Charles Longuet Higgins, George P Livius, Thomas Charles Higgins. 75 prisoners. The Chaplain has been absent for one fortnight occasioned by illness. The Gaoler proceeds tomorrow by warrant from the Sheriff of Oxford with Henry Andrews and expects to return the following day.

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Higgins, Charles Longuet,
Higgins, Thomas Charles,
Livius, George P,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James,
Andrews, Henry

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