QGR5/428

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 428 includes the following:

5 Dec 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

George P Livius, Thomas Charles Higgins 32 prisoners. The gaoler requests epermission to take his daughter to Chatteris on Wednesday next and to return on Thursday. Clark the constable will sleep in the gaol on Wednesday night. Stephen Thornton: Visited late in the day for the purpose of meeting with Charles Daniels a prisoner in custody for request of bail.

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Treganza,
Livius, George P,
Higgins, Thomas Charles,
Thornton, Stephen,
Daniels, Charles,
Clark

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