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Report of the Visiting Justices to the Bedfordshire Epiphany Sessions 1874. William Stuart junior, Montagu Burgoyne, W B Higgins, W Francis Higgins, R H Lindsell, Turner A Macan, Francis J Thynne, John H Brooks, Hugh Smyth, C C Beaty Pownall. Includes the following:

January 1874

From: 1874 To: 1874

Messrs Finch & Lush the proprietors of Fisherton House Lunatic Asylum have applied for re-payment of a sum of £1.2.0 paid by them for clothing and railway fare for Frederick Ireland, a lunatic sent from this prison, on his discharge from the Asylum as cured under an order of the Secretary of State. The Visiting Justices promised to bring the subject before the Court of Quarter Sessions and recommend that such an order be made. The Visiting Justices recommended that a Prisoners Aid Society be formed for the purpose of assisting prisoners on their discharge and enabling them to find employment.

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Stuart, William,
Burgoyne, Montagu,
Higgins, W B,
Higgins, W. Francis,
Lindsell, Robert Henry,
Macan, Turner Arthur,
Thynne, Francis John,
Brooks, John H,
Smyth, Hugh,
Pownell, Charles Colyear Beaty,
Finch,
Lush,
Ireland, Frederick

BEDFORD, Pentonville, Fisherton, gaol, general justices of the peace, chaplains, prison governors, Quarter Sessions, imprisonment, Bedford Gaol, County Gaol, House of Correction, crime, punishment, employment, mental health, lunacy, CHARITIES