Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QGR6/64-66
  • Title
    Minutes of the Visiting Justices to the Gaol pages 64-66. Includes the following:
  • Date free text
    29 September 1845
  • Production date
    From: 1845 To: 1845
  • Scope and Content
    Magistrates: C C Beaty Pownall 36 prisoners in custody - 35 males 1 female. 9 received during the week. 4 discharged. The Governor handed in a communication from the Secretary of State announcing that directions would forthwith be given for the removal of Fanny Church to the Lunatic Asylum. The Governor reported that yesterday (Sunday) morning he discovered James Waylett climbing the fence of the first yard, and called to him when on the op to come down. The Governor put him in irons. The Governor also produced a scrap of paper which had subsequently been torn out of one of the prayer books on which was written what purported to be a communication without any name attached from different wards of the Gaol arranging a plan to escape in which the above named prisoner James Waylett was referred to by the name of Sailor, promising to aid his escape by knocking off his irons. This paper the Governor states that he received from William Stimpson (one of the prisoners) who informed him that he was engaged by Joseph Fox (an accomplice of Wayletts) to put it into the 2nd yard where a prisoner named Matthew Brown (also an accomplice of Waylett & Fox) is confined. The Governor accordingly, taking in account the above circumstance as well as the increased number of prisoners prayed that an additional watcher be ordered (in compliance with a recommendation made at the last Quarter Sessions) to be continually on the look out during the day. Ordered accordingly that George mayes the present cleaner whoc is in a delicate state of health and unable to perform his own duty be appointed to watch the different yards in the daytime under the superintendence of the Governor, and that James Bowden be engaged to take Maye's duty (at 2/- per diem) until the Sessions or further orders. Ordered also that James Waylett be kept in proper irons until the next Quarter Sessions.
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