- ReferenceQGR5/315
- TitleMinute 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 315 includes the following:
- Date free text15 February & 10 March 1841
- Production dateFrom: 1841 To: 1841
- Scope and Content15 February: George P Livius, Charles Payne. [Michael] Gilman has this day been discharged, sufficient sureties having been taken. 10 March: Charles Austin, Under Sheriff, visited the prisonn.
- Level of descriptionitem
- Persons/institution keyword
- KeywordsBEDFORD, 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, under sheriff
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