QGR5/348

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 348 includes the following:

17 & 22 November 1841

From: 1841 To: 1841

17 November: George P Livius. Received this day a letter from the Secretary of States office respecting the management of prisoners sentenced to solitary confinement. 22 November: George P Livius, William Shove Chalk, Charles Longuet Higgins, Foord Bowes. 36 prisoners.

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Livius, George P,
Chalk, William Shove,
Higgins, Charles Longuet,
Bowes, Rev Dr Foord,
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