- ReferenceQGR5/381
- 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 381 includes the following:
- Date free text28 March 1842
- Production dateFrom: 1842 To: 1842
- Scope and ContentGeorge Peter Livius. 30 prisoners. Four prisoners on Surgeons list - Joseph Holloman, Richard Kelly, Josiah Smith and John Barnes. Holloman has imprioved and there are hopes of his recovery - the others are not seriously ill but are in the infirmary.
- Level of descriptionitem
- Persons/institution keyword
- KeywordsBEDFORD, Bedford Gaol, House of Correction, gaol, general justices of the peace, straw plaiting, tobacco, debt, Quarter Sessions, magistrate, imprisonment, punishment, chaplains, gaoler, turnkey, surgeon, treadmill, crime, Game Laws, poaching, debtor, disease, transportation, illness, typhus, food & drink
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