QGR5/320

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 320 includes the following:

20 & 26 April 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

20 April: C G Payne The Governor of the Gaol having received an order to discharge James Wade alias Ward under the signature of Mr Crawley it was discovered that the man committed for the offence described is called JOhn not James Wade alias Ward in his commitment which made it necessary to detain the man a day or two longer. 26 April: Dr Ford Bowes, George P Livius 19 prisoners.

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Livius, George P,
Bowes, Rev Dr Foord,
Payne, C G,
Treganza,
Short,
Wade, James,
Ward, James

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