QGR5/261

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 261 includes the following:

10 & 13 December 1838

From: 1838 To: 1838

10 December: Stephen Thornton. 31 prisoners. The Governor reported that William Mann, a deserter and felon for trial and Samuel Jones committed on a charge of highway robbery were placed in solitary confinement each of them since yesterday at 4 o clock in the afternoon for fighting immediately after they came out of chapel from the evening service. 13 December: 20 males and 5 females for trial, 2 males and 1 female convicts, 1 ditto for want of sureties, 5 debtors.

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Higgins, Thomas Charles,
Neve, Frederick Hervey,
Thornton, Stephen,
Treganza,
Short,
Mann, William,
Jones, Stephen

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