QGR5/304

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 304 includes the following:

2 & 12 November 1840

From: 1840 To: 1840

2 November George P Livius, Thomas Charles Higgins, Charles Payne, William Shove Chalk. Met for the purpose of revising the prison rules in accordance with the various acts of parliament and making a report thereon to the adjourned Quarter Sessions to be held on Friday the 13th. 12 November: 28 prisoners.

item

Livius, George P,
Higgins, Thomas Charles,
Payne, Charles,
Chalk, William Shove,
Payne, C G,
Treganza,
Short,
Waples, William

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, ACTS