QGR5/280

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 280 includes the following:

9 & 19 November, 2 & 5 December 1839

From: 1839 To: 1839

9 November: Frederick H Neve. 13 prisoners - six for trial, 4 male debtors, 1 female convict, 1 female for want of sureties and one male for imprisonment. 19 November: George Cardale. Two or three prisoners slightly indisposed. 5 December: C G Payne. The case of the debtor Samuel Warren seems to me worthy [of compassion? Illegible].

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Neve, Frederick Hervey,
Cardale, George,
Payne, C G,
Treganza,
Short,
Warren, Samuel

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