QGR5/324

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 324 includes the following:

3 May 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

Dr Ford Bowes, George P Livius, Charles Gillies Payne, Foord Bowes, Robert Newland, WIlliam Shove Chalk. The Visiting Justices are requested to insert when any of the authorities in the gaol are absent.

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Livius, George P,
Bowes, Rev Dr Foord,
Chalk, William Shove,
Payne, Charles Gillies,
Newland, Robert,
Treganza,
Short

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