QGR5/343

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 343 includes the following:

25 October & 1 November 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

25 October: William Shove Chalk, Foord Bowes. 26 males, 3 females. 1 November: Charles Gillies Payne. John Smith, convicted of horse stealing is mentally affected by confinement as the surgeon states, and is likely to suffer seriously if this be continued.

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Chalk, William Shove,
Bowes, Rev Dr Foord,
Payne, Charles Gillies,
Neve, Frederick Hervey,
Thornton, Stephen,
Treganza,
Smith, John

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