Reference
W3068
Title
The Old Gaol and site
Date free text
20 Apr 1802
Production date
From: 1797 To: 1802
Scope and Content
Conveyance: £170
(i) John Miller, John Osborn, Francis Pym, John Higgins, esquires;
Joseph Webster, William Mead, Robert Hele, Selby Hele, clerks;
being the major part of the justices for the county assembled at Quarter Sessions on 7 Oct last;
(ii) Samuel Whitbread of Southill, esquire
-- the old gaol (plan in margin) and the site thereof
on the West side of High Street in St. Paul's parish;
bounded: North by the Chequers (owned by John Moore Howard);
West by a road or way leading to above;
South by Silver Street or Gaol Lane;
recites act 24 George III enabling justices to erect new gaols and sell old ones;
presentment by Grand Jury 27 July 1797
that gaol was insufficient and inconvenient;
justices have caused a new gaol to be erected on another site within the permitted distance of 2 miles,
and have removed the prisoners to it;
witnesses. Theed Pearse, John Upton, W. Watkins "treasurer for the county of Bedford", John Ash Sturges
Level of description
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