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QGR5/281
Title
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 281 includes the following:
Date free text
16 December 1839
Production date
From: 1839 To: 1839
Scope and Content
George P Livius. 31 prisoners. There are three cases of slight illness.
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Persons/institution keyword
Livius, George P,
Treganza,
Short,
Warren, Samuel
Keywords
BEDFORD, Bedford Gaol, House of Correction, gaol, general justices of the peace, straw plaiting, tobacco, debt, gas, Quarter Sessions, magistrate, imprisonment, punishment, chaplains, gaoler, turnkey, surgeon, treadmill, crime, Game Laws, poaching, debtor, disease, transportation, illness, food & drink

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    item | QGR5/281
    16 December 1839