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QGR5/91
Title
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 91 includes the following:
Date free text
21 April 1834
Production date
From: 1834 To: 1834
Scope and Content
Thomas Charles Higgins, Charles Longuet Higgins. 54 male prisoners, 2 female prisoners. The noisy behaviour of John Odell and William Munting [Munton] when in their cells has caused a complaint to be made on the part of the Turnkey, and they are ordered to be kept in solitary confinement until tomorrow morning. Bread supplied by new baker at reduced price proves very unobjectionable.
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