QGR5/244

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 244 includes the following:

4 February 1838

From: 1838 To: 1838

Thomas Charles Higgins. 21 prisoners. Contract for supply of bread for the gaol - George Clifton. [Timothy] Edmunds the debtor is better.[NB Gaol register records his death 20th January 1838!]

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Higgins, Thomas Charles,
Treganza,
Short,
Clifton, George,
Edmunds, Timothy

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