QGR5/430

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 429-30 includes the following:

19 Dec 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

George P Livius, Charles Gillies Payne. 42 prisoners. Two prisoners [James Inskip & Charles Stanford] to be conveyed to Ampthill on the 22nd on a charge of arson. Ordered extra 1/2 lb bread for each prisoner having ascertained from the surgeon that the priisoners require this addition of food during the winter months.

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Treganza,
Livius, George P,
Payne, Charles Gillies,
Stanford, Charles,
Inskip, James

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