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Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue

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QGR5/443
Title
Minute book of the Visiting Justices [third volume] [see also QGR 4/1-360]. Mentions prisoners' diet, tobacco smoke from Debtor's Ward pervading the building, installation of gas, alterations to prison. Frontispiece includes prison rules and list of Visiting Justices. Page 443 includes the following:
Date free text
3 April 1843
Production date
From: 1843 To: 1843
Scope and Content
George P Livius, Thomas Abbott Green, Thomas Charles Higgins, Charles Gillies Payne. 22 prisoners. Conduct orderly, no illness except Sarah Dazeley.
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Persons/institution keyword
Treganza,
Green, Thomas Abbott,
Livius, George P,
Payne, Charles Gillies,
Higgins, Thomas Charles,
Dazeley, Sarah
Keywords
BEDFORD, 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

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  sub-fonds | QG
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    item | QGR5/443
    3 April 1843