QGR5/516

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 516 includes the following:

29 April 1844

From: 1844 To: 1844

George Peter Livius, Charles Gillies Payne, William Shove Chalk. The Turnkey is very unwilling to give information or say anything. This question has been noticed by the visiting Justices and the Inspector of Prisons on a former occastion and an order given that no prisoners were to be employed in the garden or in the Turnkeys work.

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Treganza,
Livius, George Peter,
Payne, Charles Gillies,
Chalk, William Shove,
Welton, John,
Farr, Robert,
Horton, Francis,
Ayres, William,
Blake,
Turner,
Gell, Richard

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