QGR5/92

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 92 includes the following:

24 & 26 April 1834

From: 1834 To: 1834

George Cardale. The prisoners had refused to work on the treadmill on Tuesday until they had more soup. [John] Emmerton is in bed by order of the surgeon.

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Cardale, George,
Warner,
Short,
Banfield, James,
Munton, William,
Emmerton, John

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