QGR5/461

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 461 includes the following:

24 July 1843

From: 1843 To: 1843

George P Livius, John Hull, William Shove Chalk. 19 prisoners. 3 males for trial, 3 males for transportation, 3 males for imprisonment, 1 female under sentence of death [Sarah Dazeley], 1 female for imprisonment, 5 males for want of sureties, 3 male debtors. The prisoner Sarah Dazeley has been much depressed but is more calm this morning.

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Treganza,
Livius, George P,
Hull, John,
Chalk, William Shove,
Dazeley, Sarah

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