QGR5/447

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 447 includes the following:

24 April 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

George P Livius, William Shove Chalk. Ordered that the two female prisoners [Jane Stratton, & Sarah Dazeley] be not allowed to remain in the same day room - one of them [Sarah Dazeley] being committed on distinct charges of murder.

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Treganza,
Livius, George P,
Chalk, William Shove,
Chapman, George,
Stratton, Jane,
Dazeley, Sarah

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