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QGR5/522
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 522 includes the following:
Date free text
20 May 1844
Production date
From: 1844 To: 1844
Scope and Content
George Peter Livius. Three prisoners are on the surgeons list, Robert Appleby, James Waller and Amos Janes - the latter is nearly recovered.
Level of description
item

Persons/institution keyword
Treganza,
Livius, George Peter,
Appleby, Robert,
Waller, James,
Janes, Amos
Keywords
BEDFORD, Bedford Gaol, House of Correction, gaol, general justices of the peace, debt, Quarter Sessions, magistrate, imprisonment, punishment, chaplains, gaoler, turnkey, surgeon, treadmill, crime, Game Laws, poaching, debtor, disease, transportation, mental health, lunacy, consumption

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Quarter Sessions
fonds | QS
- The County Gaol
  sub-fonds | QG
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    series | QGR
    
    Minute book of the Visiting Justices [third volume] [see also QGR 4]. Records their weekly visits to...
    sub-file | QGR5
    1833 - 1844
    Minute book of the Visiting Justices [third volume] [see also QGR 4/1-360]. Mentions prisoners' die...
    item | QGR5/522
    20 May 1844