QGR5/253

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 253 includes the following:

2, 11, 18 & 22 June 1838

From: 1838 To: 1838

2 June: Charles Longuet Higgins. Timothy Edmunds, a debtor, seems very ill. 11 June: George Cardale. Five prisoners ill. 18 June: Stephen Thornton. 33 prisoners. Debtor Edmunds not likely to be long alive. 22 June: Frederick H Neve. 24 prisoners for trial, 2 of whom are females. Henry Tinsley [Tindley in Gaol register] has been placed in solitary confinement by the Governor of the Gaol for three days for misconduct when leaving chapel. Tinsley is in confinement for picking pockets.

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Thornton, Stephen,
Neve, Frederick Hervey,
Cardale, George,
Higgins, Charles Longuet,
Treganza,
Short,
Edmunds, Timothy,
Tinsley, Henry,
Tindley, Henry

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