RepositoryCheshire Record Office
LevelItem
ReferenceZQAG/89
TitleBundle of miscellaneous letters and papers, mainly from Whitehall, re the administration of the Gaol.
Date1840-1871
DescriptionIncludes report by Mayor as visiting justice to Quarter Sessions re state of Gaol, 25 Oct. 1847; report by Thomas Haswell, Keeper of the Gaol to the Mayor and visiting magistrates. Michaelmas 1849; correspondence re accommodation for debtors, 1849; reports by J.H. Bagee, surgeon, and John F. Newson, chaplain, to the Mayor and visiting magistrates, 18 Oct. 1849, the chaplain's report enclosing a specimen of writing by a boy prisoner after two months tuition; returns re cost of housing prisoners sentenced at Assizes and Quarter Sessions, 1865-1871; letter from Liverpool magistrates re possibility of photographing regular offenders, 1868; instructions for shot drill, undated; specimens of Gaol notepaper ?for the use of prisoners, containing rules re letters and visits, 187-.
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