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ENGLAND
THE
O E
and
WALES,
&c.
STATE
THE
THE
PRISONS
OF
ENGLAND
WALES,
and
WITH
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS,
AND AN ACCOUNT OF SOME
FOREIGN PRISONS
By
HOSPITALS.
and
JOHN HOWARD,
Ah little think
Whom pleasure,
How many
F. R. S.
the gay
common
air.
THOMSOtTt
THE FOURTH
0 AV
London:
PRINTED FOR J.JOHNSON,
M
C.
D C C XC
DULY, AND
I
I,
T.
CADE11,
PARUM EST
COERCERE IMPROBOS
POENA
SJISI
PROBOS EFFICIAS
DISCIPLINA.
T O
THE HONOURABLE
FOR THE
GRATITUDE
ENCOURAGEMENT
AND
FOR THE HONOUR
THEY HAVE CONFERRED
ON THE AUTHOR,
THIS
IS
BOOK
RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED
B Y
THEIR
Cardmgtsn,
Bedfordshire,
Afnlyb, int.
JOHN HOWARD*
CONTENT
Introduction
Sect.
General View of Diflrefs in Prifons
I,
IL
in Prifons
Sect.
Propofed Improvements
in the Structure
III.
Sect.
An
Sect.
Bad Cufoms
IV.
Sect.
Prifoners of IVar in England,
&c.
V.
-
Sect.
Scotch
VI.
Sect.
VII.
Conclufon
Tables
,.,.,
INTRODUCTION.
TH E
diftrefs
of prifoners, of which there are few who have not fbme imperfed
my notice when I was lheriff of the county
idea,
of Bedford * and the circumftance which excited me to activity in their behalf was,
who by the verdict of juries were declared not guilty* fome on whom
the feeing, fome
the grand jury did not find fuch an appearance of guilt as fubjected them to trial j and
;
fome
whofe
them
aflize,
of one
but
extent of
it,
they
fees to
to alleviate.
after
relief defired
&c.
till
which
grew
daily
and looking
I vifited
England.
Seeing in two or three of them fome poor creatures whofe afpect was Angularly
deplorable, and
from the
bridewells."
This
it,
ff
of inquiry.
refolved to infpect^
the bridewells: and for that purpofe travelled again into the counties where I had
been
I
beheld in
all
the reft
many of them,
.;
as well
examining
and town
gaols.
a complication of diftrefs
* In 1773,
but
INTRODUCTION.
but my attention was principally fixed by the
gaol-fever and the fmall-pox, which I faw
prevailing to the deftruction of multitudes, not only of
felons in their dungeons, but
of debtors
The
in
Newgate
that
fays,
alfo.
gaol-fever
is
number of
to the
that in
the gaolers of
fixty-four."
the fix years preceding the year 1579, one hundred prifoners died there:
laft
a certain contagion called the ftcknefs of the houfe " and I fhall prefently
have occafion,
among the fatal effects of this diftemper propagated from prifons, and infecting many
from looking
Thefe
into prifons,
now
effects are
fo
the gaol-diflemper
is
fo frequent in them.
Upon
was examined
this fubject I
their thanks.
who
another
two
thefe
and
;
and preventing the gaol-diftemper.
had printed in a different character,
bill
They both
fhould be acquitted
acts I
in
England.
By
<f
and the
legiflature
many
The
what
me
facts I
had collected.
This
ought to be
rectified
they fhould be
that
much
is
the gaol-fever
my
me
what was
part of
firft
infenfibly.
me by
opportunity offered
diftrefs,
:
loft
obliged
and
this
my
and
tafk
by
me
after all,
to
I
my
repeat
my
me
plan.
in various
my
fufpect that
Vol. I. /. 19.
am
defirous that
perfuaded
it
book.
;
think
and
office as fherifF.
fufferers,
extended
diforders that
from which
am
my
and love to
eafe
and
once
not, as I
many
will
it
am
may
be, totally
mew plainlv,
fo laudably begun.
would not be
remaining,
ftill
grew upon
is
are
fet free
Thefe are
eradicated.
There
The
To
the purfuit of
country.
of an
difficulty I
The
of the miferable.
fome
it
The work
relief
to conclude that
articles,
vifits,
many
my
additional labour
found
in fearching
out
t Vol.
from me
and
II. /. i3.
that
INTRODUCTION.
fometimes the
that
I
had
my
in
firft
my
of
intereft
effects
my
arguments to enforce
perfuafions
their
It
own
and
prifons
air,
had
in
my
latter vifits
thefe ftrong
laft
my
apparel afterwards.
but by degrees
entirely omitted
of the condition
one
was
it
grew
On
them*.
temporary, there
in a
vifited the
I firft
was
in thofe places,
into
many
I wifli the
thofe
fuch inducement have obeyed, will in future follow the example of others
difregarded the law
when
to thefe precautions,
is
This
lefs attentive
prefent
and changing
;
Befides, as
families.
was not,
began
who from
who have
former
ftate.
As
to
would
what
in the
wrong,
is {till
I fet
down matter of
correction of what
The journies
is
power
The
how to
my
that
is,
the
who have
it
in
hofpitals
wimes;
* I have been
and
really amifs.
fact
which
more
difgufting.
here anfwer, next to the free goodnefs and mercy of the Author of my being,
temperance and cleanlinefs are my prefervatives.
Trufting in Divine Providence, and believing myfelf
in the
I vifit.
way of my duty,
1 never enter
I viiit the mod noxious cells; and while thus employed, " I fear no evil."
an hofpital or prifon before breakfaft, and in an offenfive room I feldom draw my breath
deeply.
SECTION
SECTION
THERE
IN PRISONS.
them:
their fallow
meagre countenances
miferable.
dejected objects.
Some
on the
loathfome
floors,
in
in healthy,
are in
of
cells,
peftilential fevers,
in
frifon" expiring
victims, I muft not fay to the cruelty, but I will fay to the inattention, of fheriffs, and
gentlemen
The
in the
There
is,
that
many
of the necefiaries of
totally deftitute
Food.
ance of Food
at all.
fome almoft
life.
them)
in
little is
allowed them
and where
he engages to fupply each prifoner with one or two pennyworth of bread a day, I have
known this fhrunk to half, fometimes lefs than half the quantity, cut or broken from
his
own
loaf.
It will
perhaps be afked, does not their work maintain them ? for every one knows
committed to hard labour. The anfwer to that queftion, though
can be done.
their
time in
houfes that
Some
their
The
floth,
is
impoflible,
to the latter
is
done, or
but fpend
who have
and defired for them neceflary food, have been filenced with thefe
extremely fhocking.
prifoners,
have feen,
There
do they not by
When
thofe gentlemen
have
Sect.
I
DISTRESS IN PRISONS.
I.
why no
them
care
is
of prifoners,
taken of their fick: and have been anfwered, that the magiftrates
tell
In confequence of
covered) with rags
where they go
this,
almoft famifhed
and
fick
of
you
fee prifoners,
difeafes,
covered (hardly
are fent to
prifons.
The fame
is
In
is
it
and medical
or other mifchief.
to be found in
although
many
In above
county gaols.
affiftance,
which
is
We
death."
As
by the benevolent
act, 3
2d of George-W. (com-
monly called the lords act, becaufe it originated in their houfe) I did not find in all
England and Wales (except the counties of Middlefex and Surrey) twelve debtors who
had obtained from their creditors the four-pence a day, to which they had a right by
The means of procuring it were out of their reach. In one of my journies I
that act.
found near fix hundred prifoners, whofe debts were under twenty pounds each fome of
them did not owe above three or four pounds and the expence of fueing for the aliment
for which fome of thefe prifoners had been
is in many places equal to the fmall debts
:
but one debtor of the forty-nine whom I faw there in 1774, had obtained
and the gaoler told me, that during the time he had held that office, which
was fourteen years, no more than four or five had received it ; and that they were foon
At
Carlifle
his groats:
York
To
their
for fees;
No
it.
caftle,
mod
The
truth
is,
fome
bailiffs.
* If the late
a&
"
fhall
to be
ofhoufes
weak and
is
"
happen
The
it
of correction
fick in their
is
required,
lhall
by an
have fome
fit
act 7th
fome more
James
allowance
I.
and
effectual
"
the
cuftodyj
eafy
GENERAL VIEW OF
6
check
eafy
by
no
bailiff
Here
complained of
many
in
kingdom
parts of the
*.
beg leave to mention the hard cafe of prifoners confined on exchequer proceffes; and thofe from the ecclefiaftical courts: the latter are excluded from the privilege of bail
and the former, generally, from the benefit of infolvent acts.
Felons have in fome gaols two pennyworth of bread a day in fome three halfpennyI
worth
in
fome
pennyworth ;
fome none
in
is
that the
tity
money
will
now
it
is
at
uncommon
not
breakfaft;
it j-
to fee the
which
muft
its
is
fall.
This allowance being fo far fhort of the cravings of nature, and in fome prifons
leffened by farming to the gaoler, many criminals are half ftarved: fuch of them as at
commitment were in health, come out almoft famifhed, fcarce able to move, and
weeks incapable of any labour.
their
for
'
Many
Water.
This defect
is
day each
And
Air.
fit
to
as to Air,
which
is
no
and cleanlinefs
lefs
gratis,
own
office
the lungs,
hogihead of
*
**
By
Now
It
is
well
known
George
man
only an hour
II.
is
it
enacted, that
that air
but thofe
" No
who do
lheriff, bailiff,
&c
(hall
to any public victualling or other drinking-houfe without the confent of the perfon fo
if the bailiff
its
arretted
is
himfelf keeps a public houfe, this feems to preclude the debtor's choice
arretted.''
he muft go to a
ounces
at
philofophers,
Sect.
DISTRESS IN PRISONS.
I.
philofophers,
In 1756,
a notorious fact.
at Calcutta in Bengal,
out of
hundred and feventy perfons who were confined in a hole there one night, a hundred
and fifty-four were taken out dead. The few furvivors afcribed the mortality to their
want of frefh air ; and called the place Hell in miniature.
Air which has been breathed, is made poifonous to a more intenfe degree, by the
from the
effluvia
its
fick,
when
malignity,
and what
I allure
elfe in prifons
him, that
my
to travel
commonly on
and even
my
I learn
"
tc
I did
till
leaves of
from a
letter
my firft journies
;
it
were often
fire
in a
many
me
fo offenfive',
my memorandum- book
after fpreading
intolerably difagreeable.
excufes
it
My
offenfive.
windows drawn up
The
horfeback.
is
clothes were in
gaolers
made
Hales, Sir John Pringle, and others have obferved, that air, corrupted and putrefied,
is of fuch a fubtile and powerful nature, as to rot and difTolve heart of oak j and that
buildings have been impregnated with, this poifonous matter for years
From
hence any one may- judge of the probability there is againft the health, and life,
in clofe rooms, cells, and fubterraneous dungeons, for fourteen or
hours out of the four-and-twenty.
In fome of thofe caverns the floor is very
of prifoners crowded
fifteen
damp
is
in others there
on fuch
laid
under-ground
floors
cells,
is
ground
Some
for his
own
ufe.
low
for fafety
t An
aft
made
in Ireland the
"
K
"
3d year of
XLVIIL
Part
I.
page 42.
"
" of the
faid prifoners."
the
Sb
GENERAL VIEWOF
the gaolers
have to pay:
this
and
their
ftifle
prifoners *.
Bedding.
many
In
and
gaols,
in
on
is
my
coft."
The
Morals.
mentioned hitherto
evils
to complain of what
is
affecT:
life
of prifoners.
pernicious to their
have
the confining
now
all forts
thefe,
in
thofe prifons, are in pity fent to fuch county gaols as afford thefe offenders prifon-
allowance.
Few prifons
feparate
in the day-time.
is
There the petty offender is committed for inftruflion to the moft profligate. In fome
gaols you fee (and who can fee it without forrow) boys of twelve or fourteen eagerly
liftening to the ftories told by pra&ifed and experienced criminals, of their adventures,
fucceffes, ftratagems,
Lunatics.
and efcapes.
in
and
by the infane
No
Where
f.
care
is
and Lunatics.
refort.
Thefe
Many
of
for
it is
probable that by
medicines, and proper regimen, fome of them might be reftored to their fenfes, and to
ufefulnefs in
I
G Aott'EVER.
am
life.
were deftroyed by
* This
in
rooms
is
it,
that have
no
my
all
fee fo
common twenty
The
various journies.
f SeeTrim
III.
feparate.
p. 478. where fuch perfons are required to be kept
kingdom.
SlCT.
DISTRESS IN PRISONS.
I.
this fentence,
before
doom
his debtor's
my
from the
numbers who,
vaft
is
to
my
I believe I
to rot in gaol.
in prifon
who
pro-
import of
full
certain
by the gaol-fever.
Not
to mention
now
number of
the
Jailors,
hundred more."
The
c<
firft
and Dr.
Mead
" and
Lord
by the prifoners
clofe
and
naftily
kept
is
:
when
<c
when both
bufinefs, or
j-."
At
the
Lent
affize
At Axminfter,
gaol-diftemper.
from Exeter
in
town
a little
in
in
them died;
fame malady
in
London
in
* I have in my pofleffion a large copper-plate, firfl: publifhed in 1772, by Sir Stephen Theodore Janjen,
{hewing the number of malefactors executed in London for the twenty-three preceding years; and the
crimes for which they fuffered. J will give an abridgment of it in a table at the end of the book. In it
will
annual average
is
total
number of executions
death
V.
An
ingenious writer,
of fanguinary laws
" mankind
is
is
I leave
whether
Mr. Eden,
all
London
in
to others
number of
And
it
Let
may be
it
obferves that
"
the accumulation
left to
any one
to judge,
London
whether, including
does not exceed the number of thofe that were executed annually during that time.
number of executions
Principles of Penal
am
well affured
it falls
Hill
much
fhorter of the
number
that
perifhed in prifons.
t Natu-al
Hiftory,
Exp. 914.
alderman,
GENERAL VIEW
alderman, and
many of inferior
known
OF
to need the mentioning farther
particulars.
jail-fever,
men
of one
in.
England *.
Dr. Lind, phyfician
to.
failors
me
in
ill
by a man who had been difcharged from a prifon in London. The fhip was laid up
on the occafion. That gentleman, in his EJfay on the Health of Seamen, afferts, that
" The fource of infection to our armies and fleets are undoubtedly the jails ; we can
"
"
"
men on
to America, loft
it
directly
by
The
from them.
It often
proves
Englifh
firft
fatal
im-
in
war
that
the
it
prefume,
the gaol-diftemper
Vicious
Examples,
The
is
fufficient
even
if
no fmall importance.
now be
to fhew,
a national concern of
It
a prifon
is
A prifon
"
often faid,
mends no morals.
feffions,
own
pany he kept
And
in gaol.
after the
railing:"
for, as
am
fure
it
may
be added, that
K head of a gang of
his
accounted
pays no debts " I
as eafily
improved,
petty offenders
who
no doubt, in
committed
are
(kill
by the com-
to bridewell for a
year or two, and fpend that time, not in hard labour, but in idlenefs and wicked
company, or are fent for that time to county gaols, generally grow defperate, and
come out
in
fitted
criminals,
idle
in
Half
the prifons,
people
who
vifit
them.
the robberies
committed
How
contrary this to
which certainly
is
to cor-
Multitudes of
mote and increafe the very vices it was defigned to fupprefs.
I
young creatures, committed for fome trifling offence, are totally ruined there.
make no fcruple to affirm, that if it were the wifh and aim of magiftrates to effect the deftruction, prefent and future, of young delinquents, they could not de-
Army,
t Page 307.
J Page 5.
vife
DISTRESS IN PRISONS.
Sect.
I.
vife a
more
effectual
fo
and feminaries (as they have been very properly called) of idlenefs and every
feats
vice.
Shall thefe irregularities, the fources of mifery, difeafe, and wickednefs, be endured
in a nation celebrated
do
good
for
fenfe
fort
war.
we
one
treat
in plenty;
fome
to fpare
hung up
own countrymen
in
am
mean
man had
night every
at
my wim
prifoners of
to the foldiers
fell
It is the farther!
himfelf.
and
on guard*;
Some prifons
hammock to
to deprive captives
of any
diftrefs:
that
fo
confiftent
may prove
our benevolence to be a firm and fteady principle ; and that thofe who are cenforious may find no occafion for afcribing our kind ufage of foreigners to a lefs amiable
motive.
Here it will be faid, prifoners of war are not felons, nor yet debtors and government is fometimes, at the end of a war, reimburfed the expence of maintaining them.
This latter I believe is fact and the former is true without diipute we do not look
upon foreign enemies, nor they upon us f as either debtors or felons we cut one
another to pieces in battle, but when that is over we grow cool and companionate.
;
I grant there is
am now
* I
beef three
The
pints
in a
of beer. On Friday they had not the beef; but a pound and a half of butter inftead of
men of war, indeed, they were upon fhort allowance.
How
quarts
On board the
week
it.
fix
knew by experience in 1756; when a Lifbon packet (the Hanover) in which I went pafienmake the tour of Portugal, was taken by a French privateer. Before we reached Breft, I
prifoners of war, I
ger, in order to
fufFered the extremity of thirfl, not having for above forty hours one drop of water
In the
food.
upon ftraw
my
countrymen were
When
came
to
England,
in the
fti'll
cartel-lhips.
evidence of their being treated with fuch barand that thirty-fix were buried in a hole at Dinnan in one day.
made known
fervant.
perifhed
on parole,
which gained
my
Suffered
on
had
fufficient
attention,
to the commifliohers
and thanks,
to the French
mentioned above, were brought home
Lady frem Ireland, who married in France, had bequeathed in trull with the
:
their
my
lives
of
ufeful
men.
is
Perhaps,
what
book.
prifoners,
CUSTOMS.
BAD
but there
prifoners,
none
is
in their
nature.
to
as well as hoftile
be treated as men.
to
fuffer,
an angry prayer ; feem not duly fenfible of the favour of Providence which diftinguifhes
them from the fufferers they do not remember that we are required to imitate our
gracious Heavenly Parent, who is kind to the unthankful, and to the evil : they alfo forget
:
the viciffitudes of
human
affairs
And
who
may
affluent,
as to criminality,
is
it
commit
may be
it
is
are liable
poffible, that a
may on
tation
men
all
man
a fudden temp-
leji
he fall, and
fallen.
Much,
" mifery
faid,
true, has
been written
fuffered in gaols
" ruption
that poverty
is
they are
with
filled
all
" gate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of
" want, and the malignity of defpair. In a prifon the check of the public eye is re" moved and the power of the law is fpent. There are few fears, there are no blufhes.
" The lewd inflame the more modeft the audacious harden the timid. Every one
" fortifies himfelf as he can againft his own remaining fenfibility endeavouring to
" prattife on others the arts that are pradtifed on himfelf ; and to gain the applaufe of
i
"
by imitating
their
manners."
Befides the grievances already mentioned ; there are feveral bad cuftoms in gaols, and
relating to them,
diflrefs
of prifoners.
SECTION
II.
A CRUEL
cuftom obtains
in
is
and
Sect.
BAD
II.
and then
CUSTOMS.
they have no bedding or ftraw to fleep on, contract difeafes, which I have
if
The
drunkennefs.
to fundry prifons, I
fum
is
had
my
is
fometimes varied by
commonly more
Of the
with reluftance.
it
(which
fets
garnifh which
who
paid
and
if a
by new-come debtors.
There
efpecially cards.
in
&c.
tennis,
is
is
have
entitled to partake
demand
fet
am
down
aware
lately in ufe.
am
at play.
not an
is
firft
are
and porto-
Gamin's.
mo ft com-
In London^
enemy
of the gar-
miffifippi
till
Rut
it.
In fome gaols,
mon; and
in riot
that the
there before
all
the forts
to diverting exercife
yet the riot, brawling, and profanenefs, that are the ufual confequences of their play
the circumftances of debtors gaming away the property of their creditors, which I know
they have done in fome prifons to a confiderable amount ;: accomplifhing themfelves inthe frauds of gamblers, who, if they be not themfelves prifoners, are fure to haunt
where gaming
is
pradlifed;
feem
to
me
hindering
their
fellow-prifoners
of which inconvenience
all
from walking
in
the
prifon.
Loading
Irons.*,
is
which make
their walking,
In
fome county gaols and even bridewells the women do not efcape this feverity: but
London they do and therefore it is not neceffary in the country
The practicef.
muft be mere tyranny unlefs it proceed from avarice ; which I rather fufpect ; be-
in
caufe county gaolers do fometimes grant difpenfations, and indulge their prifoners,
"
'
'
"
Head and George Taverner, were inJohn Berrisford of two half-guineas, two fixpences, and two halfpence, in New Prifon under the pretence of garnifh,
which fad; being plainly proved, they were all found
guilty of an affault and robbery
; and to deter others from the infamous and inhuman practice of taking
the money, and if they had none, of ftripping
poor prifoners that were upon any account committed to
prifon, fo that often-times they have perifhed
for want ofcloathing and necefiaries, they received fentence
^
didted at the
" of death."
Old Bailey
for robbing
Burton's Ne-w
Hew
affize
cattle,
woman.
-
men
Irons,
BAD
men
for
as well
as
<c
call
choice of irons/'
the
if
it.
The
author of
A Letter
Juftice,
to Sir
Lord
CUSTOMS.
&c. againft
oppreffion
this
Coke, Horn's
The
Mirror
learned editor of
f<
Hale's Hijlory of the pleas of the crown likewife declares, that fetters ought not to be
tc
<c
makes an attempt
" of
gaolers,
" manity
<J
it
is
to that purpofe
is
unruly, or
common
practice
of the laws of England, by which gaolers are forbid to put their prifoners to
manded
man
of
in irons
after
this practice,
"
that
It
To
is
judges repri-
may
be given in the
"
juftice
To
would be
is
walls,
mould feem,
celebrated
it
before their
by Thomfon,
Can
Who,
after all, to
them
the
The
in his
number of prifoners. If
make it neceffary to confine
them
raifing
trial f.
poem
&c. fr.
edit.
1738,
human woe,
touch'd with
redreffive fought
jail ?
Where
ficknefs pines
Hail, Patriot
When
Band
Juftice,
who, fcorning
fecret fcorn,
It is the
'
charged with
**
fafe cuftody."
fetters
rod.
requir'd.
fo, that
neceffity of
The
Sect.
CUSTOMS,
BAD
II,
B&ccaria, in his EJfay on Crimes and Punijhments, page 75, obferves that
Imprifonment, being only the means of fecuring the perfon of the accufed, until he
The Marquis
t{
cc
be tried
ought
occafioned by chains
to be attended with as
feverity as poflible."
little
The
diftrefs
increafed by
is
aflizes are
Varying
in irons ten
trial
or
committed
elfe
carts
And
in that
Gaol-delivery
poor creature
finement
at firft to the
is
in
be held.
to be built.
What
once a year.
reparation can be
a prifon
in
in
trial,
made
which, perhaps he
to a
Gaol-
by con-
his morals,
at laft
is
The
judicious Marquis,
" being
a punifhment,
and ufeful
it
be."
will
a crime, a
This fentiment
punifhment
illuftrated
is
is
inflicted, the
more
juft
My
"
reflection,
day
may
" fufHcient to fhew that we are all liable to the imputation of guilt; and confequently
" all interefled, not only in the protection of innocence, but in the alignment to
" every particular offence, of the fmalleft punifhment compatible with the fafety of
" fociety."
One
At Hull
feven years.
is
in
in prifon there
it
trial
once
in three years.
they are
of the peace f
ftill
;
fubject
are
by the
to a fimilar
and detained
in
* 14th George
f
For
demand made by
At
aflize,
III.
See the Table of the Fees of the Clerks of Aflize at the end of the book-
larceny,
and acquitted,
Petty larceny,
in one county
184
demands
Whipped
Eaftardy,
as follows
publicly,
-
17
4
4
till
Clerks
Assize,
&c
BAD
CUSTOMS.
exprefs words of
It
it
is
fees
all
upon
Weftern
fome
Received
re
pence for
prifoner acquitted;
every one.
for
fhilling
April 1775 f Mr. Sherry gaoler one pound eight fhillings and eight
his
him
certificate entitling
F****
J.
and a
circuits
firft
circuit
fe
" per
act,
The
gaoler told
me
this
Devon
acquitted prifoners.
I was informed at Durham, that judge Gould, at the aflize 1775, laid a fine of fifty
pounds on the gaoler for detaining fome acquitted prifoners, for the fees of the clerk of
aflize.
But upon the interceflion of the Bifhop (proprietor of the gaol) the fine was
remitted; and the prifoners fet at large: the judge ordering the clerk of aflize to explain
to
him
One
London
in
may
dictments
pretence, as the
that
is,
"
It
is
I call
it
grand jury are often difmified fome days before that time, and becaufe
thofe who do fatisfy the demands of the clerk of aflize are immediately difcharged.
Another pretence is, the gaoler tells you " he takes them back to knock off their
But
irons."
this
may be done
in
court
London
in
by the help of which they take off the irons with eafe
brought into court, and the acquitted prifoner
to
what
is
a minute
in
immediately difcharged.
the machine
If,
is
according
propofed, prifoners were tried out of irons, this pretext would be entirely
removed.
Clerks of
aflize,
The
is,
the
demand
On many
2 500.
complain of
is
is
what
directly or indirectly
thesis
places.
much
iff:
" Paid by
" And by
" As
to thefe
juftified,
two
lower.
The demand
his Majefty's
Fees or
am
led to by
We
fub-
for a
If they were
as
and
we
their
fee in
21;)
County of Surry
articles,
my
acquitted prifoners *.
for the
laft
upon
One of
&c. in the Home Circuit, were of opinion that a demand not near fo
made
fees,
is
calendar
the thing
that
076
-050
copy of a calendar
-
&c."
Some
Sect.
NUMBER
II.
Some
from the
Non-refidence
OF PRISONERS.
is
is
&cOver
the door of
good
is
order, "cleanlinefs,
There
requifite
London) with
their
Wives and
much
oufly
children.
room;
in-
Wives
AND
Childreks
This point
one
as
Yet the
ill.
little
women
Man
resident.
fome of the
are
Gaolers
Non-
except, perhaps,
probability there
a prifon
when
number of men
the
their
of an induftrious
is
in the
woman
being of
fame room
much
and of lewd
this affair
by the proprietors,
name of wives
prove that
lation.
Some
gaols
when
One of
a temptation offers.
and unfafe
repair,
thefe gaols
the gaoler to confine his prifoners took a method, that was really
The grand
in vain.
j
mocking
it,
Some
*.
thumb-
had the account from a worthy friend of mine, who was upon that very
T tOf
the
complaints, which
To
in general terms, I
mall give
and fail.
NUMBER
In
fundry prifons.
1.
In Middlefex,
My
i.
e.
lift
fummed up
was
PRISONERS.
OF
number of
prifoners
Felons,
together
Petty
Offenders.
in
Total.
in the
as follows
3.
4.
"
1274
228
194
1696
752
617
459
1828
67
27
344
122
2437
994
94
466
653
4084
f Durham,
Petty
Gaols
Private
Property.
NUMBER
Petty offenders in the
OF PRISONERS.
in the third
mod
column
Petty offenders, blank in third column fourth line, are included in the number 459 of
petty offenders in the thirty-nine county gaols ; and in the number 122 fecond column,
fourth line.
&? c. although
many were
petty offenders
and
lift
of felons,
fines.
In the third column, under petty offenders are included a few felons occafionally com-
mitted to bridewells.
I
My
computation
children *)
that,
may be
affigned to each
man
depen-
in prifon.
March
27, 1782,
as follows.
1772,
Difcharged debtors,
who had
wives,
and children,
131 26
We
7196
4328
24650.
publiflied
May
Brijlol fociety
Perfons difcharged,
who had
wives,
Total
I find
number of
May
1775, to
number of dependants
1782, was
There
is
thefe totals
my
rule: the
indeed
for
For
May
1134
36 11
Total relieved
Each of
lift
238.
Dependants on them,
cation by
in their
the
who
73
45
120
and children,
And
>
is
firft
commonly
among
debtors
4745-
many of whom
but a deficiency
laft
by 1343.
I ftated.
Sect.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
III.
number
You add
number of dependants,
twice that
in
appears
table
diftrefTed
is
is,
of prifoners, that
theit
that
is,
4084
8168
12252.
number
has
been
legis-
lature.
It
may
afford
fome
fatisfaction to
purpofe
lhall
be inferted
my
at the
readers, to fee at
in
SECTION
III.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS
IN
OF PRISONS.
HOWEVER
and.imprifons
his
debtor; there
life
man
of a
of
trial,
and of convicts
treatment debtors
principle,
till
have
for debt.
is
a legal
claim
fentence be executed
to
nor can
we
upon them.
Humane
confidently with
any good
of morals or government, refufe the
fame to perfons accufed,
or even to the molt atrocious convicts." Principles
of Penal Law, page 52.
The
;
either
laws
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
No
ought thofe
to
deftruction
is
inconfiftent with
it is
home
prifon, to
who
at
or abroad;
many
inftances of
" Sore
<c
fhip,
tc
loft
<c
rantine."
an immenfe
If one
terrified
prove very
feet
repeated in
if
him
who
by
fum by them
little
work,
1774.
mortality
that
is
we
to
this
confidence
in vain.
no one
;
will
him
fet
it
from
Mr.
Biggs,
in
our
laft
We
moment under
detained to this
to work.
Is
thofe
Some
tranfcribe their
will
we met with
fhall
for
The
fatal.
13,
his
but
many of
that
it is,
complained of
Sept.
fo furfeit us,
this, will
certain
have feen.
words.
They
which
Briftol,
it
lefs
Their
But
for labour.
fit
their feet;
if
much
life.
he
trial
commonly
is
That,
upon
qua-
believe,
is
fuch
the
go from door
to door afking
of being cherifhed, mould be thus extinguijhed? and that the penitent mould by an
almoft
irrefiftible neceftity
brings
him back
to his former
manfion
the prifon
Many
itfelf.
me upon
evils,
the
life,
might have
firft
built in
a
a
is
thorough
new county
this head, in
In order to give
fkilful
hand
will
that
their ftead.
muft build
more than
ufeful one
But
firft I
will fay a
word of the
SITUATION.
PLANy^
COUNTY
GAOL.
Sect.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
III.
11
SITUATION.
A
County Gaol,
if ooffible
and
They
fo fatal
and by their
to thoufands:
is
prevented, that
the
is
(tench of fewers.
I faid a
but
mull annex
fo near as that either the houfe or yard fhall be within the reach of floods.
cumftance was fo little thought of at Appleby in Weftmorland, when their
was
Jirft
it
be not
This
cir-
new gaol
by
floods.
If
it
chofen
build near
be not practicable to
for as the walls
circulation
of
this
air,
fo
eminence fhould be
by other buildings
or
then an
a ftream;
And
the
city.
PLAN.
THE
according
it
to.
and order.
my
By
fhall
as,
the
ideas, unites
ftruclure.
That
felons ward,
may
which
is
it
may be more
airy,
it
have found that efcapes have been moft commonly effected by under-
mining
cells
and dungeons
When
The
room ; and
were
out.
ftill
at their
mercy
it;
for
felons
in.
We
were
Our
lives
but (thank God) they did not attempt to murder us, and rufh
means
is
and the
walls
Arcades,
PROPOSED -IMPROVEMENTS.
22
Small
to have
Willi
rooms
1 aele
many /mall
crown of the
arch,
may
fleep alone.
one of them
pentance.
Privacy and hours of thoughtfulnefs are necefTary for thofe who muft foon
leave the world 5 (yet how contrary to this is our practice
Keepers have allured me,
!
Old Newgate
made 5
day
die
after
condemnation of
be
it
" confequence
" die."
lefs
This
effected.
alfo
for that
for,
is
would prevent
Kin g's
Evidence
pleading
:
that
is,
it
they hardly
thefe
and
more than
in
left
civil refpedt,
how
efpecially at night,
would prevent
how
they
efcapes,
or
would
them
the
ftill
in a religious, as well as
The feparation I am
make them very difficult
The
In
which are
needful.
much
is
their prifoners.)
cells
free gaolers
know where
from
Another
of which
have
to
put
among
in the
would be murdered by
one' prifon,
in the night.
a difficulty
their
accomplices
if
women's ward.
Where
open
all
there fhould
ftraw,
Women^lons.
day.
be no glafs
from the
floor;
fix feet
&c.
1771.
mould be
See
alfo
a Spital Sermon
of
offenders.
urged
bilfcop Butler,
Each of
menf; and
the
8th, 10th,
and zzi
Letters
in his
book
entitled
The
f By an act made in Ireland, 3d of his prefent Majefty, it is enadled, " That in all gaols hereafter to
" be built, there may be diitincl apartments for the men and women ; and that all gaolers, whofe gaols
" will at prefent admit of fuch a diftin&ion, may be obliged to feparate and keep apart the different
" fexes."
alfo
Sect.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
III.
23
have their day-room or kitchen with a fire-place ; and their court and
alfo
offices all
feparate.
both
laid in
and unwholefome
it
if poffible
is
and the
pump
and pipes
very deferable.
in
fuch cafes.
room
In a
fmall ftream
pump
or
commodious Bath * with fleps (as there is in fome county hofpithat come in dirty, and to induce them afterwards to the frequent
ufe of
wafh prifoners
it
It
j\
fhould be
warm
water fufficient to
filled
There fhould
alfo be a
let
copper
of
There
fhould likewife be an Oven: nothing fo effectually deftroys vermin in clothes and bed-
them
fo thoroughly
when
The
reft
in the
at night.
cellent ufe
that
is,
calm weather.
in
ait in a
kept clean
and
alfo
them every
little
minute.
the
fubject,
But on
air
||
in
the wards of
is
is
of ex-
of no fervice,
it
will
am
per-
diforders.
t I might mention as an evidence of the advantage of Baths in prifons, that I have known inftances
where perfons fuppofed to be dead of the gaol-fever, and brought out for burial j on being warned with
cold water, have (hewn figns of
life,
of a
Even
Series of Experiments.
% See
||
cf the
fituation
was
Sec.
fo mild, that
frefti air
in putrid fevers.
A putrid
many of
be convenient in
farther obfervation, I
fize,
MARY
there
Infir-
covered
This machine
day.
room
Oven.
Bath.
Pump.
as I
airinefs
on them.
6'
K
The
VbstiLAT0RS *
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
24
The
fewers or vaults of
in the
all
clofe
colleges)
The
feats
up
feat.
infirmary and fheds will not render the court unfafe, provided the walls have
Separa-
Debtors
and
^
totally feparate:
Charks
XX.
Chapter
II.
The
act
may
not be
enacted,
That
that debtors
" Be
it
" they mail be put, kept, and lodged feparate and apart one from another,
" rooms."
turnal feparation.
it
a far greater
is
by
it
the night-time.
in
character of the
fpirit
for
know
am
my
But
of them.
where there
is
of
their diverfions
it
feems to
me
or to what
by fuch
to explain laws
conj ecture
vague principle
clafs
their inten-
the fuppofed
as
was
as
wrong
is
it
all
fhrued according to
tion.
in diflind
at
night.
do not
Worcefler,
at
Thefe
different
more
recollect
than one or two gaols where they lodge together, viz. the Borough-compter, Clerkenwell bridewell, the Devizes and St. Albans.
is
de Arable.
The
from
This would
it.
debtors to
work
that
alio
is,
is
taken down.
remove
is
and
if
may
at a diftance
now made
Conflant
the fmall-
be free
againft permitting
or efcape.
Workshop.
In the debtors ward there fhould be a day-room or kitchen; alfo a large work-Jhop
fQr ^jc j1 as are vvilling to work.
Some few
&c. employed
habit of induftry;
that
have
preferving their
them
falls
on the refpective
parifhes.
Here
city gaols,
would
for I
have
want of apertures.
Prifoners inditled for felony fhould not be compelled to work.
many of them
But
have heard
Sect.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
III.
In fome
comfortable fupport.
had
faid
two
fexes
this
privilege,
as
Exeter,
at
edition,
firft.
to themfelves
whom may
of
my
in
pump, &c.
*.
be feen
the table)
in
leave
number
it
WomenDebtors.
may
ward.
The Ward
for men-debtors, fhould alfo be over arcades, and placed on one fide of the
gaoler's houfe.
them
in
Ward.
order; and would engage the gaoler to be attentive to cleanlinefs and conftant
&
Debtors
to the felons
in
Chapel
fituation.
necefiary in a gaol.
is
mould have
It
out of fight of
it
what
women
reft may be
all
offenfive.
have'chofen for
at
and the
fee ms to
me
a proper
feparated below.
Chapel.
be
Bibles
thofe
who
REGULATIONS.
WITHOUT
and mifery
nefs, difeafe,
I fhall therefore
offer
of a gaol.
The
firft
and humane.
I regretted his
Tothill-fields bridewell.
This
reftrain
officer
to the contrary,
The
it
is
a ftrong temptation
highly requifite that no gaoler, turnkey, or other fervant
be
TtZ 5/^'
m any
I
be eitabhmed
^dangerous
as well as authority,
To remove
garterS
nCtS
'
prifon,
laCCS
'
'
even among
&C
'
felons.
Chelmsford, &c.
is
But then they muft have proper rooms and courts for
their
fuffered
Gaoier.
;
:
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
26
Tap.
fuffered to
in
at,
do we
fexes,
Even condemned
in his
gaoler's
intereft
he
the
in
to
who
treat at
gaols,
and
profligate
may
who
number
is
be
to
leaft
till
1782.
their creditors.
were no
if there
into our
which
there in riot
fee let
was,
What
am
taps,
reftrained
from
riot
and
drunkennefs.
I
know
that
by the
This
beneficial to prifoners,
are,
who
find
ways to
all
concern
ing
free ufe of
in the fale
but would
is
it
of the
and very
f.
of their tap
profits
whereas
if
enjoyment of the
much intemperance
That
it is
gaolers themfelves.
two of them,
allied
" mation
in gaols ?"
The
to
anfwer
from the
tap,
am
con-
whom
means of
had from both, was
for felling
arifing
all profits
to this purpofe,
let it
" Let no
keep them."
proportioned to the truft and trouble
falaries
fince
no
office,
if faithfully
yet not fo
of their gaols.
The
Gaol-Committee,
Wine
is
which
May
have
1729,
mentioned
after
cbuld wiih
it
before,
in
their
report of the
in all prifons.
" At his free will and pleafure, to fend for, or to have brought
f
day time, any beer, ale, victuals, or any other neceflary food."
to
him at
found
Sect.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
III.
found had
be
occafioned by the gaoler's holding or letting the tap,- draw the follow-
ing conclufion
" This
f*
of the tap-houfe, fince to advance the rent thereof, and to confume the liquors
"
**
44
in
meer
neceflaries of
life,
When
was
in
.Upon inquiry,
an ad: againft
is
made
it,
which
then vifited.
prefent Majefty *.
No
mould be a
prifoner
He
"
"
It
is
this to fervantsf.
fhould open and unftop the windows, and order the bedding out to be aired,
and the
no
turnkey.
may
cribs to
The
falutary end.
magiftrates
of
GlafgowJ have
and anfwer
"The
gaoler every morning and evening, at the opening of, and before the fliutting
vifit
cleanlinefs.
man mould
that
is
For
the cafe,
this reafon
all
is
up
an old or infirm
commonly dirty.-^He
allowance, he muft do
dated quantity.
I
have
live at a diftance
from
his
prifon
He
||.
Prifoners generally
take advantage of his abfence. For this reafon, no keeper of a prifon fhould be a
*
f*
The preamble
runs thus,
" Whereas-many frauds and abufes have been committed by gaolers exafHng
exorbitant fees, brewing of drink, and baking of bread, which they oblige their prifoners
to take from
" at their own rates Be it enacted that no gaoler, or any perfon in truft for him, fhall brew or
bake
" gaol or in any place for fate, or keep any lhop for the felling of bread, or beer, or .ale, or
other
them
in the
liquors,
" under
f In
In York
caftle
months.
(in
ward for
from
who was
prefent,
their teftimony.
X I
who, on
my vifit to
city, in a
II
manner
my grateful
truly hofpitable
new
me
civility
me
of thefe Gentlemen,
and obliging.
particularly at Dublin in
gaol.
Sheriff's
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
28
Sber'ff>S 0fficn
ollillZ'
'
me,
Chaplain.
I
,
confequence of the
ad made
a Chaplain appointed to
raoft of the
county gaols
the
When this
clergyman who offers his
in
office is
In the Life of Bernard Gilpin, page 173, the writer, fpeaking of his labours, informs
" wherever he came, he ufed to vifit all the jails and places of confinement
v
few in the kingdom having at that time any appointed minifter." And by
his
us, that
"
affectionate addrefs
" he
is
faid to
in
is
dinner-time.
prifoners
And
at leaft,
if
The
chapter of the
The
gaoler fhould
He
no
efpecially,
prifoners
at
friends."
afking at
prayers ?"
* In the reign of
and by
have
prifons,
not,
as
fome
Queen Mary,
Durham
to
hinder
do,
chapel bell
fhould ring
more
places than
one,
been anfwered,
And, on Sunday
The
fale
Vifitants
are
who
little
fiery trial
was broken by a
for the bigotted
facrifice.
fall
from
But
f For on Sundays
as
is
in his
his horfe
In the next reign he was promoted to the rich living of Houghton in Northumberland
are
Why
"
" They
recovery.
reader, if a prifoner,
The
journey from
their labours in
have
to
be
or attend.
Upon
divine fervice.
New
would be proper
It
fhould
vifitants
mould go out
totally omitted.
is
reft,
weekly penfion.
there,
Sunday:
comes fometimes
fixed for
is
is
his
and
it
faid above.
in the
day-time; which
am
perfuaded would not have been the cafe, if there had been divine fervice in the chapel.
his
Sect.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
III.
his prifoners
the gaol
in
and
alfo
in
fum
The
much
but
man
of repute
in
He
frefh
air
He
At Newgate
them,
and
from them,
One
my
great.
opinion,
are near
vifited
is
and he fhould
enough
to
as conftantly.
this
do
well
visit
Here
prifoners.
To
aft,
he
capital
the danger
prifon
in
the
to appoint a phyftcian,
who, when
state
to the City
to
to
ft.
there are
prifoners together
juftices at
muft diligently and daily vifk them himfelf ; not leaving them to
Surgeon.
His
his profeffion.
is,
be taken off;
you
(as
and
in all probability,
silence
county gaolers,
<
The
diftemper was brought from Newgate, by prifoners removed from thence by habeas
corpus."
No
prifoner fhould be
fubjeft to
and
* In the book of
"
'
Ireland,
"
171 1."
has a
Common
fo
any demand of
lift
is
is
The
Fees.
their pay,
their
t In fome foreign
He
fervices.
their condition.
"
"
their
firmary; and fee that they have proper bedding and attendance.
day.
and
bufinefs
to
of their fellow-creatures.
or Apothecary
nefs
officiates
who
chaplain
each prifon *.
Many
The
to follow.
at
officiate
It
The
them
fet
may
29
fees
licenfe in
is
their fynod,
obliged frequently to
form of prayer
reft
of the clergy of
holden at Dublin, in
vifit
the
year
taken of them.
aecefiary
Fees.
S.
be
articles fliould
am
lifhed, I
fure they
In
fide debtors.
that
left to
mould be reduced
and
mould
fo
Neither of thofe
If fees be not
this
alfo needful
is
is,
abo-
Free
ARD
For common-fide
*
debtors there
fubject to
either be alimented
by
many
as in
order to Clcanlinefs
In
L1NESS
*
gaol
and flaked
the kiln,
vefcence *
leaft
at
as felons
in boiling
water and
;
by pretending
refpect,
that
number of
The
every day.
prifon
sequence
* This
the
every
that
effer-
gaolers affect
to
daily wafhing
This
is
England
in
work by
the
turns
who fweeps
is
a prifon
no inconvenience,
-f.
is
do
prifoners
and room
befl
demonftration,
is
prifoners,
Idle
whole ceconomy of
fize,
jufl after
the ceiling
twice a year
of more importance,
is
Clean-
not an ingredient in
is
the
con-
White-wafhing
it.
Nothing
more
is
effectual to
is
but attempts to efcape are more eafxly difoovered in white than in dirty walls.
ments on
effects
'
inftead of
Is this
"
In England few
for
fenti-
we
is
it
a prejudice,
If
we
own.The
air
from
rivers
is
probably more replenifhed with vapours, than inland countries cleared of their woods ; yet the molt celea houfe, on
brated of antient phyficians recommended the bank of a running river for the fituation of
account of
"
to
it
of offenfive drains.
it
fituation
"
prifons
its
peculiar healthinefs;
fent
by
the
modern
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
Sect.III.
Every
comes
prifoner
daily allowance
for his
Nothing can be
on
this fubjecl:.
and
cleanlinefs
to preferve
"
bodies.
Our common
"
efcape,
what they
"
"
"
t(
to the clofenefs
become
the
To
health.
this
"
"
linefs is
and
in
this,
is
And
of the place.
Jlench
And
that
"
it
as najiinefs
is
is
would
cer-
great fource of
of
which
infeclion, fo clean-
Sir
edit.
purpofe
call
malignity in proportion
firft
an inftance of
us
prifons afford
and promote
Pejlilential Contagion,
at
of Captain Cook's fuccefsful care of the (hip's crew in his voyage round the world, and
"
page 26.
"
"
fo
officer
It is
well
was perfuaded
that fuch
men
**
"
orderly, and
more
attentive to
He
and
became
duty."
"
No. 631.
at the
This remark
is
by an
mind
warm
deftruiftive
to gaol
dirty,
mould be
in
warning clothes
a fack
to
purifying: clothes fhould be kept ready in the gaol for this purpofe
confirmed
both to
Several vices,
their
as
roller clean
every day.
Pails,
There fhould be
mops, brooms,
foap,
in
'*.
Each
prifoner
vinegar,
and
fuel,
fhould
* It would be better if criminals were to wear a kind of frifon-uniform during the whole of their confine-
ment,
more
as
have feen praftifed at many foKign prifons. Among other good effects, this would make them
be difcovered on efcaping. On the other hand, they mould be tried'in their own clothes, for
liable to
may
be
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
32
be fupplied by the
fome
county or
No
{table,
many
Bedding.
town
*.
No
alfo
in
the rooms of
coarfe coverlet,
gaoler
and not be
laid
on the
which
diforders,
" There
common
are
being no ftraw
floor,
This would
prifons.
men were
at Fort-Jugujius, the
"
bedding;
"
and
prevent
John
Sir
providing
it
rooms of
in the
by cutaneous
it
infection
Pringle
May
prifons, I
the account with which the ingenious Dr. Lind favoured me, of his fuccefsful method of purifying in-
" Charcoal fires fhould be lighted in the morning, and allowed to remain till evening, and
pound of brimftone thrown upon each; their fmoke in the mean time being clofely confined.
" They may be made in iron pots. This fumigation fhould be repeated every day for a fortnight.
fected Ihips.
"
half a
" Every
evening after the fumigation, the ports and hatchways fhould be opened, and the infide of the
warm
wafhed with
vinegar
and
men
'*
(hip
"
"
**
died of the fever, and unlefs the infection has been very mild, the bedding of fuch as have had the fever
" though
**
week
it
may
alfo
be white-wafhed.
The remaining
recovered.
to the fleams
fhip, the
bedding of fuch
clothes
may be hung up
expofed
"
fteeped for feveral hours in cold water or leys, be well wafhed, and then dried in the open
Linens, and
commence from
"
cleanlinefs of tne
'
*'
made
to bathe
may have
I
in a clofe place
to the
have
**
" ing
as
is
taken
ill
and a
fufficient
air.
If,
dur-
men
fumigation, be
firft
be paid to the
maa
a change of clothes."
have obferved in prifons abroad a very cheap and pleafant fumigation, which furprifingly corrects the
offenfivenefs of the
berries thrown
f The
bad
air.
upon burning
I fuppofe
it
is
the fame as
is
ufed in
Roman
coals in a chafing-difh.
which
" No
gaoler, or
*'
"
or the houfes adjoining thereto, and provided for the ufe of fuch prifoners, any hogs, cows, or other
**
"*
cattle,
fhall
(hillings for
in
orprifon."
not
Sect.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
III.
not one great caufe of the unhealthinefs of our prifoners be, the want of proper bed-
them
from many
This reminds
me
How different
of what
Vienna
at feveral
in
Holland.
fay,
his
men
and
fubjecl: to illnefs
difeafes
am fully
of the
clothes, I
Prifoners
mould have
lhould alfo be
common
made
day-time
in the
in
the
rooms
which they
in
to get
up
early,
to their bread
fleep
firing.
and
they
They
prayers.
This would divert them, prevent them from fleeping immoderately, and be conducive
to health.
The
doors of
all
mould be open
the wards
in their
rooms
at fix in
at ten at night, as in
in
France and
If once a
liquor,
The
ought to have
at leaft a
the coarfer pieces of beef were boiled in the copper, and half a
without bone given to each prifoner, with a quart of the broth, this Sunday dinner might
it.
to
remove
a bad
cultom
that obtains too generally, the pretence of refrefhing prifoners with better food
drink on Sunday
and
from chapel.
I ftate
Befides
articles.
Here,
as in the
tap, I
mult
infill
upon
it
as highly neceffary,
from
Whoever
diftributes
a ftrong check.
it,
all
concern
in the prifoners
allowance j
all
all prifons,
fubjecl:
may
to
fee
them
felons
in
XXVIII.
ten
pounds a year
The
Food;
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
The
allowance to prifoners.
may
am
fee, that I
fupport health
an*-
The
week
* (I wifh
it
who
were more
is
eafily
obtained)} and the government allowance to afiize convicts under fentence of tranfportation
is
little
fix
And
ment
in his bill
upon
the average price of bread, potatoes, &c. the allowance I have mentioned does not
of cravings, prefemed
prefume
at
believe
it
trial
No
fighting
mould be
fufrered in a gaol
keeper,
greffor
who muft
by
let
him complain
to the
hear both parties face to face, decide the matter, and punilh the ag-
clofer confinement.
more
fevere animadverfion,
mould
Money
The mention
legibly
fent, collected, or
Some of
tially.
might be
it
laid
of Legacies reminds
on a board
me
fo as to
many
it
teftators fruftrated.
" And
it
is
of a
lift
of them painted
Very
Yet
care of legacies
is
to
make
it
is
exprefsly
be given in
fame."
In the like confpicuous manner
of fees ,
many
in
they
till
gaols
are abolifhed.
all
it
mould be hung up
This
totally difregarded,
is
alfo
is
table,
Yet
is
it
11.
in prifons
procure one or more copies of the three claufes f which contain the feveral articles
of the prohibition, to be printed or fairly written, and hung up in one of the molt
public
* J2d George
f In the prohibiting
who
fhall
fell,
in the houfe
nally.
for
And
IL
of one hundred pounds is laid upon any gaoler, keeper, mafter, &c.
away any fuch liquors or knowingly permit them to be fold, ufed, &c.
except they be prefcribed by a regular phyfician, furgeon, or apothecary, to be ufed mediciufe,
claufes, a fine
lend, or give
a fine of ten pounds to twenty pounds, or any time not exceeding three months imprifonment,
mentioned above,
fhall
to the
informer
One moiety of
the other moiety of each of the two fmaller fines to the prifoners; or, ia
I have
Sect.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
III.
3$
public places of the prifon or work-houfe, and renewed as occafion requires, under the
There mould
I
be a table of the
alfo
or allowance to prifoners
diet
The
The fame
fufficient.
mould
table
is
it
The
is
be painted on a board,
more
hung up.
confpicuoufly
want of which
for
in
which the
act
was
The
by
law.
The
table
mould
them by
as the table
of
fees,
Befides fetting
a bell,
faid they
mould be
fixed
by the
as
down
thefe hours
in the dock-yards.
have
Rules.
Yet
it
penalties
exprefsly required by the act 326. Geo. II. that Rules and orders made, figned,
is
and confirmed,
in
mew
alfo
in
many
the want of
them has
often been
lamented by keepers.
An
Alarm
hell
affiftance in cafe
in every prifon,
The
in
order to
fummon
have not feen the claufes hung up in any uuork-houfe. I mall in the fequel mark the numerous
prifons
fame defect I could alfo have mentioned prifons in which, not'withftanding the act, fpirituous
I could
known
who
ways
find
to
evade the
adl,
and do themfelves
hung up
till
fell
the keepers
had licences, after which they were no more feen. I have feen
that I
am
community.
Dr. M'Farlan,
ruined a greater
in his Inquiries
number of tradefmen,
or brought
more
" There
is
tuous liquors."
* I mention this circumftance, that
may feem
trifling, as I
know
f " Be
'<
"
"
enactedThat the judges and juftices of affize mall, at all aflizes make
inquiry whether
fuch table of fees, and rules and orders-are hung up and
remain publick and fhall inform themfelves
* nd fuppl
y and redrer*-and mail exprefsly give in charge to every grand jury impannelled and fworn
f
before them refpeftively, to make inquiries concerning
the fame."
it
alfo
Finally
Alarm
Bell
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
3*
Finally
The
care of a prifon
is
too important to be
left
wholly to a gaoler
Inspector.
To
hj s duty.
this
prifons
are
this part
either
by
paid
in
fail
his
col-
Sheriffs
immediate
their
to
intereft,
care.
But fome
fheriffs
excufe
office:
well
as
gentlemen
as
in the
in
is
great meafure
and
may
it
be expected that
fheriffs will
complaints
all
doubts
he
of,
may
his ftation
of a
in cafe
tf
and,
if
And
thofe
who
magiftrates
is
act
needful, in order
This
country.
The
upon
through
If fuch
more righteous
principle,
but
infenfibility,
think themfelves
mould
more
felt
is
is
and fervice to
juftice to prifoners,
with horror."
will
lefs
;
it
of doing
refer
what he
is
furely
due from
them.
I
Many
The Vagrant
that if they
l<
a *
report,
mafters
tions
&c."
who do
And
juftices,
came
into
my
my
or town-magiftrates
None
gaol."
gaol, they
of thofe gentlemen
Others have
faid,
mould foon be
in.
requires that
;
not keep their prifoners to hard labour, and punifti and correct
them according
to the direc-
their
MAY. 1929
Sect.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
III.
Others, "
their graves."
they
The juftices
fatisfy
my
Now
if magiftrates
continue thus
negligent of their duty, a general thorough reformation of our prifons muft be defpaired
What
of.
and
all will
BRIDEWELL
1
S.
our bridewells be not more properly conducted, fending prifoners from them to
all
the care of the moft attentive gaolers, and the whole inten-
And when
lives
whom
is
creature,
who
them
fend
fecure, fend
another
abufive in
is
them
What
gaol.
is
into
this
ftill
is
often
drunken quarrel
fome petty
guilty of
young
theft
dirt,
of being
inftead
evil to fociety.
a fhocking thing to deftroy in prifon the morals, the health, and (as
It is
done) the
One
and
much improved by
worfe company
fuch education.
that of
abandoned felons
Many may
their
in the county-
loi*s
wickednefs.
it
But
well.
this prifon
In
many
rooms
to
the general
common
number of
firft
of
all,,
aifo a bride-
at leaft
not within
to both.
delinquents.
is
windows
Wo
need not be equal j the back windows half the fize of thofe in. front, and fix feet
from the floor *.
Few or none of the windows fhould have glafs ; only blinds,
fimilar to what are ufed in diftilleries
% ; or fliutters, and thefe fhould be open feveral
R0
it.
* In
rooms, where there are numbers of people, provifion mould be made for
letting out the
of them. See Dr. Priejikys Expaimnts, &c. page 281.
aI1
lar & e
air.
at the top
vitiated
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
The rooms, where the windows are not glazed, fhould have fireThe windows fhould be by no means towards the ftreet, that fpirituous liquors
or files, &c. may not be conveyed to the prifoners.
In the court-yard (for fuch is
neceflary in every prifon *) there fhould be a pump, or fome other provilion for water
hours in the day.
places.
And
in plenty.
prifoners fhould
working.
Work.
For
in
Not
quifite.
mod
certainly, to be
This
employed.
indifpenfibly re-
is
is
||,
For women,
breafl, there
be allowed
meal-times included.
firing.
and
the
at
in winter they
fhould
In
this .
fome
*
"
"
**
By an
act
7th James
juftice
Cap. IV.
it
vided,"
(within about
I.
is
"
one or more
and convenient houfe or houfes of correction, with convenient backfide thereunto adjoining
where
forfeit
fhall
for
fhall not
I.
be erected or pro-
five
lit
Every
&c. the
faid houfe
and back-
for neglect.
t Many
Some warrants do
Magiftrates Ihould confider that prifoners confined for one or two years are entirely ruined
morals, but as to their capacity for labour
for
**
not only as to
The
acts cited in
fall
into
houfes of correction
"
"
decline.
\
"
be duly
fitted
work."
"
all idle
||
It
was remarked
is
requifite with
regard to the keeper of a bridewell; fince fuch an one would neither be able to keep the prifoners properly at
work, nor to prevent their making their efcape at the time of locking up, as I knew to happen at Prefton in
Lancafhire, and other places.
Not having
fufficiently infifted
is
by promoting
liable.
know,
that
mor-
fcanty
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
Sect. IIL
There
windows.
firing
allowed, the
is
fhould be a feparate
room
fick
with medical
Men
relief.
women mould
And
two
many more.
and
Gentle difcipline
is
There
In
at
to
folitary
bride-
and Clerkenwell
ftricTb
commonly more
which mould
Thefe mould be
punifhed by
mould be
fome county
in Tothill-fields
J.
as
for the
the gaols.
as in
prifoners,
fault
rooms
airy
as night-rooms, feparate |.
as well
fame purpofes
fociety.
&c
as in gaols,
clean,
and
at
he
is
fcanty provifion, has been the caufe of great mortality in our prifons during the winter.
houfes three prifoners were ftarved to death, only one halfpenny being found on
them
all.
corrected only
In one of thefe
I
waited on the
coroner (who from the humanity of our laws muft be applied to in fuch a cafe) and he acquainted me, that
the verditt brought in was by the
tion for felony, and
allowance not
-vijitatian
fupport nature.
fufficient to
* Boys confined for correction mould always be feparate from other prifoners, and indeed from one
another.
them
kind and tender monitor mould often fee them, and without tiring their attention, converfe with
as a parent or a friend.
f In
all
prifons,
it
cheap as of oak.
The beds or
cradles at
one inch high at the head, and two feet three inches
feet
in the clear.
The
to
Plymouth
at the feet
fix feet
medicine box hangs by two hooks at the back of each cradle, which
neceffary.
what
lie in
their clothes,
Without
this,
The
floor
three
feet
boards on the fides (three feet eight inches long) Aide in an inch groove.
they muft
from the
at
iron, without
how can
is
fickly objefts.
To
promoted
in
young
creatures
is
or
is certainly erroneous.
There is a mode of managing fomeof the mcft defperate, with eafe to yourfelf, and advantage to them. Many of them are fhrewd and fenfible::
manage them with calmneis, yet with fteadinefs fhew them that you. have humanity, and that you aim to
make them ufeful members of fociety let them fee and hear the rules and orders of the prifon, and be convinced chat they are not defrauded in their provifions or clothes by contraftors or gaolers. When they
are
fick, let them be treated with tendernefs,
Such conduct would prevent mutiny in prifons, and attempts to
:
efcape
and
ill
which
am
fully
perfuaded are often owing to prifoners being made defperate, by^ the inhumanity
'
fir
for his
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
own good. The keeper fhould, by
means, refide
the houfe.
:
nor to
no
licence.
he
may
He
as there
in foreign
is
In
Mill
is
The
fufferings of the
of a gaol, and by
for the magiftrates,
The
room
in hofpitals,
the cafe in
Mr. Henry
lefs
that
manage-
room
truft,
The whole
as that
in the
tl
fame manner
in the
fhould
*,
and
fell
He
in
all
not from
" any want of companion, but becaufe they are lefs known; and this is the true
* reafon why we fo often hear them mentioned with abhorrence, and fo feldom with
" pity."
have before
meat
but
am
It
may be
of correction, or
pound and
befides twice a
For
milk or barley.
potatoes.
no advocate
in houfes
would plead,
rice,
am
faid, that I
among
for I
would have no
a half of
Yet
a day,
only on Sundays.
a change
at moll,
by what
who work
in houfes
of correction
Though
am
in the
fenfible that
as are
at liberty.
I know not any reafon why an houfe of correction may not be conducted with as
much regularity, as any other houfe where the family is equally numerous. Some
by fome preference
in
fo
conducted.
their
Let
diet, or
the fober
and giving them, when difcharged, a good character. This lafl will
be a ftrong incitement to good behaviour. The hours of rifing, of reading a
chapter in the Bible, of prayers, of meals, of work, &c. fhould all be fixed by the
confinement
Chaplain,
magiftrates,
every view.
To
Many young
creatures,
when
bell.
Chaplain
As
is
neceffary here in
as to their morals,
fhould
their term
Such
is
neceffaries
have
this to
them; nor
till
can
Sect.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
III.
"
"
men
morals of
and
am
perfuaded, that
lefs
and
practice
is
it
work
But however
is
The
recited
which can
work."
fo defirable a
religion alone
is
it
laft
in correcting the
fatisfied,
am no
The
theirs juftify
in a
may
it
difference
appear in Speculation, in
great between involuntary
is
cannot fupport
meafure towards
work
of keepers
for
and
An
own maintenance.
its
profit of the
:
itfelf,
all
of
fome of them,
common
applied to
it
it
benefit
not
left to
where work
the difpofal
done, keep to
is
themfelves a fixth part, fome half, and fome the whole of the prifoners earnings
giving them only the Ihort county-allowance, and fometimes but part of that.
I faid all the earnings fliould
Thofe who
for working.
profit
will
And
to themfelves.
When
it
if
But a building
fit
The
But
charge of
if
this,
as well as
of a proper gaol,
that
be found but
light.
the
fo
that
200
many rooms
in
their
efcape
them
are
unrfafe,
and
Why
in
were not
:he
walls
of the
time, that prifoners might with fafety be allowed the proper ufe
Why
which he
of.
crowded together
in
will
courts repaired
no doubt, be complained
will
it
prifoners are
will,
laft
a year, though good quantities of commodities were taken off by the kindnefe of
him to fpin and weave. In particular, the E aft India and Guinea
companies gave him encouragement to make their allabas cloths, and coarfe canvas for pepper bags, which
.before they
*'
"
"
Hulling
by
Jofs in their
theft. '*
the
work of
his
poor
fo
much
5c
" For
for he
would
it
fay,
loft
two pence
in
?.
34.
of
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS,
of them
Money,
and Town-halls
it
the
to
wanted
are
impoflible
the defign
petty offenders;
That
increafe of felonies.
be anfwered without
it?
is
in
mean,
notorious *.
promoted by
Prefcription founded
on culpable
bar
fire
thief,
on the gallows.
"
weeks carried
fuffer capitally
acts
of cruelty.
this clan
to flaughter,
is
of our fellow-
cart-loads
a dreadful confideration
and
" this is greatly heightened by reflecting, that, with proper care and proper regula" tions, much the greater part of thefe wretches might have been made not only
" happy in themfelves, but very ufeful members of fociety, which they now fo
f'
The management
iince offenders are
years.
Mod
of bridewells
at
all
is
Chriftendom
now
prefent committed
to
-f."
a matter of
them
that
means of remedying
degree, and of difburthening the counties of a heavy expence with which they were
charged
to the matter
by the
late
ad
to lay
them before
the public,
when
new
of parliament .
** The -punifhment of a
* The benevolent Marquis Beecaria clofes his 31ft chapter with this maxim.
" crime cannot be juft, (that is neceflary) if the laws have not endeavoured to prevent that crime by the beft
" means which times and circumftances would allow."
f H.
\ 16th of George III. Cap. XLIII.
Fielding's Enquiry,
An
page
aft to authorife,
ult.
punifhment by hard
" labour of Offenders who, for certain crimes, are or fhall become liable to be tranfported to any of
w his Majeily's colonies and plantations." Mr. Eden has obferved that The numbers of perfons for
" whom fome mode of reftraint and punifhment in lieu of tranfportation muft be provided, may be eftimated
If the impolitic mode
" at one thoufand annua lly." See the Preface to his Draught of a Bill, 1778.
of tranfportation be again adopted, the cruelty fhould not be aggravated by confining convicts a long time
before they are fent
off.
Since
Sect.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
III.
my
may be
This
will
crowding our
in future of
and
had written
fupprefs what I
only give,
will
at
lift
in the
there
book,
fo as to
prifons,
confequences.
I
without
may
that
many
It
it.
more comfortable
in the
firft
management
On
the
as
own
claffes of.
from the
may
free
refpect to the.
and the
like, I
venture to
in
fail
a prifon, though
and
difeafes
affert,
may
to be fufficiently irkfome
air
the
in
hardJJnps
under
of elegance
me more
that if to
ceafe to
Then, with
appearance.
be joined fuch
it
be confidered
let it
them
But
houfes.
not
objections
that
contrary,
as too
off,
construction and
ment
fome
faid,
terrible,
fo
meafure be taken
in great
ing,
obviate
may be
hardfhips
will
attempting to
as
Strict
regulations
aid difagreeable,
will
and pro-
fligate.
The "Penitentiary houfes directed by a late act of parliament, may, under proper
management, be made to anfwer very.ufeful purpofes. Much, however, will depend
upon their proper regulation.
I do not pretend to be qualified for drawing up
a perfed fyftem of this difficult bufinefs
abilities in
their refearches
on
this
but in order to
fubject, I
and particulars
have added,
as
feem
to
afiift
at the
me
perfons of fuperior
moft deferving of
at-
tention.
On
" of banifhment,
'
community."
as pradifed in
England,
is
who
criminal,
"
every
efFecl
to the
SECTION
FOREIGN PRISONS.
SECTION
IV.
my
laid
not quite
fruitlefs
my
and repeated
vifit
afide
my
flattered
to thefe
myfelf that
countries,
my
and went
labour was
alfo to Swit-
zerland, in 1776.
In the conclufion of
ferioufly
my
edition, I
firft
made
mould
Germany.
This
I ac-
complifhed in 1778, and likewife extended my tour through Italy, and revifited fome
Thefe obfervations were
of the countries I had before feen in purfuit of my object.
to acquire
in
cities
For
fubject.
Germany.
this
purpofe in 178'!
I vifited alfo
the capitals of
Denmark, Sweden,
and
in
to
remedy
that defect
by confining
my journies
H
Prisons
in the
my
is
it
fo quiet,
purfuit,
after
Dv
They
in a gaol.
freming
my
abroad.
are
fo
clean, that
commonly (except
the rafp-
me how
re-
phyfician
HOLLAND.
Sect. IV.
is
and
healthy.
mod
In
and
Of
One
fix.
reafon of this,
that each
and great
on the
effect
fpectators.
and
particularly defcribed to
a year than
in
is
which
fimilar to
is
in
believe,
prifoner
late,
from four to
They never go
coverlet.
houfes.
many rooms
kept feparate.
what
ferioufnefs,
but
was
it
in another
place abroad.
a broad fword.
wheel
on a
or rather
manner of
crofs laid
execution, which
this
upon the
finimed by a
is
coup
de.
any that
creditor
mud
may be
employed.
ufefully
five
if
in
the
would
net,
of confining
in
imprifoned, the
is
and a half
to eighteen
aliment
mud
and
broken on the
is
fcaffold.
flat
decollation by-
is
halter.
money, or
fecurity for
be
it,
life.
The
is
difcharged.
Another reafon
that the
is,
fituation
is
very difgraceful.
are few,
is
all
No
prifon
vifits in
by a
You do
what
prifon,
have been
is
others, to induftry.
:
but occafional
cry of poor
hungry Jlarving
debtors.
The
States
and women
work
to proper
diligent,
principal
work done by
mills,
have
much
cheaper
lately fet
up
but
in the fpin-houfes
honejl.
The
men
rafping
is
upon
this profeffed
logwood,
now
in
many
feveral
profitable,
little
extra-time
to earn fomewhat for their better living in prifon, or for their benefit afterwards.
Great care
manners,
is
taken to give
for their
own and
religious indruction,
The
and reform
is
in
their
every
houfe
FOREIGN PRISONS.
houfe of correction) does not only perform public wormip, but privately
prifoners, catechifes
*.
am
to
inftrudts the
many come
Offenders are fentenced to thefe houfes, according to their crimes, for feven, ten,
twenty, and even to ninety-nine years
fifteen,
As an encouragement
life.
by fuch behaviour,
felves
who
the prifoner
refped
his
diftinguifli
them-
And
term
is
new
the election of
fobriety
to
thofe
who
are
Indeed,
and
According
to the accounts,
they
fix
This practice
or feven.
is in
every
with an intention to
a longer term,
to
before
little
thefe prifons
fo
beneficial.
infpect
office
in
doomed
magiftrates,
is
make fuch
amendment.
was informed that the produce of the work does not maintain
women by
;
from eight
infirm, very
policy
little
for befides
none however
fix.
to ten ftivers a
lefs
effects
This
day
thefe;
and thofe
is
houfes
and healthy
that are
furely excellent
breaking criminals to habits of induftry, if work fo conftant does not fupport the
houfes, how much heavier would be the public burthen, maintaining the numerous
offenders in thefe prifons,
there
if,
as in
many of our
bridewells,
no work
at all
were done
In Holland, as well as in Germany, there are private rooms in moft of the houfes
of correction, in which young perfons of a vicious and profligate turn are confined on
the reprefentation of their parents, till they fhew figns of amendment.
three
dam
have heard
in
no debtors
in either
of the
When
England that a countryman of ours, who was a prifoner in the rafp-houfe at Amfterto work at his own trade, fhoe- making; and by being conftantly kept
in
feveral years,
there were
was permitted
employed, was quite cured of the vices that were the caufe of his confinement. My informant added,
trade in
that the prifoner received at his releafe a furplus of his earnings, which enabled him to fet up his
London ; where he
lived in credit
and
at dinner
xafp-houfe."
there
HOLLAND.
Sect. IV.
47
there are any, they are alimented at one fixed fum, viz. fixteen flivers a day
are feven vaulted
One
ten.
rooms
of them
fentence
and immediately
common
Rotti
is
final
There
*.
after
a criminal
the fentence, he
is
put fourteen
executed with
is
people.
perfons confined for a limited time for fome fmall offences, and kept to bread and
water.
filled
beer,
ft
and
five ftivers,
and
their pitcher
their allowance
There were
ftivers.
At
was
filled
my
laft vifit
there
former
vifits
Two
men,
and
it
in
fhould be called)
at
twenty-eight
1781,
my
one of
men and
women.
forty
men were rafping logwood, others, combing, fpinning, and carding wool, and
making
(a few)
wool and
flax,
.are turned
fifhing nets,
and carding
and forting
hair, or
They were
by water.
winding
coffee-berries.
clean,
which
well.
fpinning
at
Derby
obferved
and one of the regents informed me, that the room was
feparated than
the
women
into
rooms
long, eleven feet broad, and ten high), each of which contained only four or
prifoners.
offenfive
the perfons
five-
removed every
fion of
one of the
five regents or
infpe&ors
For the refractory there are dark rooms, but not dungeons
in one of thefe, on
fhutting the door on myfelf, I found no dampnefs.
My conductor obferved, that the
:
floor
it
is
to bread
ment
is
A guinea 252*3.
are to pence as
t As
flices
bread
was there
this
is
is
3ffp=sf
at
dry.
Here they
given them
at
are allowed
no bedding, and
are
kept
Their confine-
11 guilders 11 ftivers
i.
e.
1 1
ftivers is
20
ftivers is a guilder)
therefore ftivers
equal to a {hilling.
all
cut in
prevents thofe contefts or frauds which fometimes happen where prifoners mefs together, and the
few on board the hulks in the Thames, where one loaf was given to
fix perfons.
At
RaspH0USE
FOREIGN PRISONS.
At
Rotter.
Rasp
house.
whipping-pod (which
the
is
in the
in full
criminals)
their
its
Englifli Jew,
who
obtained his liberty, though he had been committed for thirty years.
The
regents have a
afTemble in another
They
Sec.
by
alfo attend
rotation at dinner,
and
The
of four hundred
city,
florins or guilders
per
annum +, and alfo a houfe, victuals and drink, firing and candle, and one feventh part
of the produce of all the labour of the prifoners ; fo that it is his intereft to fee that
the
power
to
be a cruel tafk-mafter.
The manner
fixed
is
by the regents,
it is
not in his
me
at length %.
Being
and order
work-houfes in Holland,
in
who
is
the attention
and hu-
t About 36.
X Regulation for the daily Diet, at the Rafp-houfe at Rotterdam.
Sunday Dinner.
as only
work half
fixth
tafk, a
as
a piece
piece of cheefe or
flour,
no bread or cheefe.
Monday Breakfaft.
butter.
butter or
cheefe.
Dinner.
Tuefday Dinner.
For
all,
Wednefday
of cheefe.
three eighths of a
Wednefday
HOLLAND.
Sect. IV.
Being
Rotterdam on a Sunday,
at
prifons,
as
49
there
on
ours,
in
is
The
that
The
audience confided of
about thirty or forty inhabitants of the town, Mr. Schumacher the prefiding regent,
The
the head-keeper and his family, and three under-keepers, befides the prifoners.
number of women
who were
congregation by a wooden palifade, and feated on benches raifed one above another.
They were
all
their faces.
While they
without hats.
The
in
their
up
drefs,
men were neat, dreffed in brown coats, had been fhaved, had clean
(which were
fliirts
but were
up during
flood
mod
They
alio
room out of
in
the
it
them
full
Wtdnt/day Dinner. Each boy, woman, or half-tafked, a bowl of peafe porridge, one fourth of a pound
Thurfday
bone
third of a
two
flices
barley broth.
men who
Boys, or
two
flices
of
rye
bread,
weighing together
or pork*;
Friday Dinner.
eighths of a
three
with cheefe.
Each boy, woman, or half-tafked, the mefs of kidney-bean porridge ; one fourth of
a pound of rye bread with cheefe.
Each man a bowl of boiled peafe, with butter and vinegar fauce ; boys, women and
Saturday
half-tafked,
and
all
have the
The
conftant /upper,
enough
to be eaten
cheefe
the boys,
on week-days,
without bread
women and
for
all,
boiled
buttermilk
is
to this, each
man
of a
pemd
till
thick
Cans.
Each man
has, during
the
three
fummer months,
daily,
of beer,
women and
half-taflced,
for the
three
In the foregoing
regulation
for
diet,
all
no
alteration
the prifoners
is
may be
to
be made,
unlefs
indulged with
j|
2.
daily,
one
2^
if
when
fifli
fhall
meal, provided
be
with
Rotter-
public
in
house.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
5
Rotter-
DAM
The
in view.
turnkeys,
The
joined
fat
chaplain, after a
ringing,
in
fliort
raoft of
When
Sunday,
fix
are
chaplain
convicts
had prayed
It
of them ftood up, one after another, and made the refponfes, which
by ringing the
the
who
fifty-firft
After this he
The
Pfalm.
prayed,
evidently proved that the fervice, though of two hours and a half, was not tedious
or difagreeable.
The
concealed.
feat
fearch
the
catechifing,
the
At
in an hour.
feat
only being
out
let
at
time-f-.
number
together, that
five
all
new
magistrates.
India,
to
as
is
and
zvomtnh ward,
of
One
or two
fometimes
converfed
with
at fea,
He
permitted.
them
entreated to
afterwards went
go
any capacity
in
the
to
lattice
catechumens
of the
fome token
his approbation.
infpired
man
Pesthouse.
in
%.
The
fma]l
fle>
Jt
Maes
edifice,
correction,
The
this
that
feat is
all
it
building in
a fpacious
:
in
which
is
mention
for a
bafon
this
houfe of
of
water
but only
one
is
it
obliged to attend,
they do by rotation.
is
fifty-four feet
thirty,
me
and
by
occurred to
it
Rotterdam
oppofite
hundred and
a fq Uare of Qne
converting
out of our
for
have
with a fenfible magirtrate, his words were, " I have known perfons who
honks of correction thoroughly reformed, and have thanked God for their con-
finement."
infpired,
HOLLAND.
Sect. IV.
when
infpired,
buried
lie
trod on the
it
piles
my
of
brave countrymen
hofpital after
military
as
op-Zoom.
In 178
there were
vifited the
Admiralty
the
in
died a
only two.
confined
and
time before,
little
room
a fmall
in
which,
confined
in part
which was
hofpital,
is
had
Several
well.
owing
to
their being
dirty, without a
chimney,
day, a
bed an d
ftivers
the court.
in
in the Stadt-houfe.
It confifts
of rooms
flairs
In this
And
villages.
The rooms
the prifon
in
is
1781.
in
Middleburg
at
criminal
November
in
been well informed, that for thirty or forty years there has been but
have
is
healthy and
was
apprehend,
Their
and on
coverlet,
up
who appeared
called the
were wood.
fides
its
who were
Holland,
feet
in
Rotterdam.
at
not executed
the crime
till
is
confefTed.
no direct
The
The
and clean.
fpacious, lofty
are
as there is
and the
torture,
allowance to a criminal
In the Houfe of conctlion the prifoners were employed in weaving cloth or facking
the Eaft India company.
for
This
None were
on coarfe carpeting.
;
in
in
is
more
No more
irons.
late
employment
three guilders
The
Breda
prifon at
is
an old tower.
In
this
city.
The
78 1 there were
fome of them
allowance to criminals
is
five
no prifoners
large,
flivers
are
in
it
under the
a day.
was
informed, that the torture-ftool, in the chamber of examination, has not been ufed
for
many
In
years.
the new
employed on
fpecimen
feet
four
houfe
and
prifoners;
in
of
corretTion
[In
November 1781,
latticed with
The
prifoners
to
are
ftivers
always
much
confined
to
their
The
cheaper.
ell,
which
is
two
In
this
and
other fimilar houfes the pafTages are very offenfive, for the keepers will never open
the windows.
It would therefore be much better if the upper part of the windows
were wire latticed.
here
FOREIGN PRISONS.
5*
Breda
Spl "~
HOUSE*
who
attentive
lias
of the drains
to the conftrndtion
been particularly
are of the
ereateft
o
The
down about
periflied in
new
the flames.
prifon,
the two
and
women
proper precautions
joifts
arching the
edgeways,
fpace with
brick work.
Gouda.
At Ld
me had
keeper informed
rooms, but
offences,
them of
all
empty
Gouda,
there
is
fome are
affigned to
In
for
1761.
thofe
which there
On
an allowance to each of
is
a fmall
obferving
little
employed
in
towels hanging in a
room, they told me, that each of them had one clean every week. Here were fome
prifoners from the Hague, and other towns which have no rafp-houfes, who were
admitted
at
a ftipulated annual
Near
this
city
is
florins
for each,
The
beft tranllation of
Ihe
Dilft.
righteous
is
Scripture,
bold as a lion.
is
two men rJping logwood, and the city arms, dated 1682. At my
here, were near ninety of both fexes, and in 1781, forty-feven men and
women.
The men and women were quite feparate ; all neat and clean,
reprefentation of
firft
vifit
thirty-fix
They
told
me
their allowance
fine
cloth
All were
men weaving
was
faid
it
it.
burgomafter,
to
Some
whom
eight or ten
men
to
work
there
are feveral
rooms
Amfterdam
will
excufe
my
omiflion of others.
At
7
HOLLAND.
Sect. IV.
At
Hague
the
53
was honoured with the ver y polite aff fiance of Sir Jofeph Tori.
me to the prifon ; where all was quiet and in order. The
Hague.
magiftrate accompanied
me
rules
with a copy of
meets of forty-four
management of
the
for
rules
to
injlrutlions
attorney-general
and with a
prifon.
the
M.
S. copy
The
on feveral
gaoler
never
is
out of the houfe, but with the exprefs confent of the court, or the
fuffered to fleep
leave
that
is,
the
He may
prifoner.
his prifoners
their
confinement or afterwards.
frefh
ftraw once a
deputy,
is
week
He
and
treat or gift
fum
morning
None
in winter.
Sunday.
by
till
two
to
and
indirectly,
:
during
furnifh
at
winter, coverlets.
in
nor play
be duly preformed.
this
to
be admitted on Saturday
at nine.
The keeper
to
rire.
The
preferving peace,
in
abftra&ing a few.
There
and order.
No
to
officer
ftir
have an admirable
effecl:
cannot forbear
in
In cafe of
fire,
they
is
own expence for three days eight days and at laft, with difcharge. They
may not keep company with any perfons in public houfes Sec. Giving ill language
is punifhed by a fine
Not giving inquarrels, at difcretion of the magiftrates.
formation of defaulters is punifhed with difcharge.
They are to guard againft being
guilty of ill behaviour of any fort, that no difhonour may be caft upon the court of
their
judicature.
Each
on pain of a
fine.
officer to
The whole
to
rules,
be read to them
and keep
all
it
to
fhew on demand,
a month.
In the houfe of
all
employed
in
correction
at
fpinning wool.
Leyden
The
was thirty-two
ftivers a
week.
The
Leydk*.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
54
Leyden
Fest-
HO USE.
through
its
'
hovse'
1S
and
is
reception
by two par-
contracted
the work-houfe or
modern
buildings.
female offenders.
fifteen
has been
it
whole length.
At Harlem,
Harlem
fpacious.
were here
at
making and mending the linen of the houfe. The men were weaving
coarfe linen, in which at the diftance of every fix inches, there was a blue ftripe,
to diftinguifh the linen of the houfe, and to prevent its being in any manner difpofed
call
her)
One
of elfewhere.
that
had been
his
The room
profeflion.
and decently
In
Hospital.
in
The poor
allotted
that in
way of
their
which they
flept,
to
it,
all
clad.
in fomc others) is a noble Hofpital, airy and fpacious, called the
which the perfons admitted are decently provided with meat, drink
Proeveniers,
in
their
lives,
mod
deceafe.
though
provided for
all
who
Age.
If
any
after refiding
to their age,
at that age.
Sum.
one
For example
Age.
Florins.
it
Sum.
fifth
if
in
part of the
Age.
Sum.
Florini.
Florins.
60
2700
2600
22
4900
4800
42
3900
3800
4+
46
3700
64
2500
3JS
66
345
3300
3i5 0
6S
2350
2 200
2ICO
72
195O
3000
74
l800
1700
48
45OO
32
44OO
34
4300
36
4150
405O
38
table
40
28
all
common
A common
50OO
4700
4600
not
20
24
26
Perfons of
is
At
at their
are admitted,
advanced period
damafk, becaufe
filk
loom on flowered
former trade.
6z
54
$6
2903
76
58
2750
78
l600
80
I5OO
choofes
HOLLAND.
Sect. IV.
choofes to
required
eat
in
his
55
of the admifiion
fifth
It often
in
to leave
a certain,
their lives,
Harlem
Hospital
defire admifiion.
advance
florins in
and the money deducted from the fum required when they
lift ;
money
at
enter.
fum which
intereft of the
they paid
at
admifiion *.
Amsterdam
No court.
At
the
feparate.
prifon
Vilitants
is
the
in
may
bottle of
it
with debtors
The
to
fells
at
he
the
lattices
may buy
debtor
liquors)
and felons
Debtors
Stadt-houfe.
converfe
is
an anchor of
allowed to
The
bottle.
quite
of their
call
for a
allows each
city
By
converting with
the
debtors,
all
fourteen days at eleven ftivers or a (hilling a day; after that time at five ftivers
firft
and a half. But this is paid to the gaoler, who h<is great profit out of it, as appeared
from the daily allowance, which I weighed feveral times. Their two rooms are
the
For
this
account I
am
indebted to Dr.
London:
-f,
church at
Hague.
Deaths
When
in
hung up
The
Deaths
this city.
!775>
7895.
780,
10536.
1776,
8982.
781,
10889-.
1777,
8939.
782,
844J-
1778,
779 1
Firft
in
Firft
died
121.
138.
week,
Second week,
Sir William Petty in his
in
779'
9S
,8.
June 1778,
week,
Second week,
In June 1781,
to public view, a
6649.
was there
The
is
774>
'TraSIs, p.
159.
In
November
78
1,
The
Firft
week,
Second week,
In June 1783,
76-
The
Firft
week,
Second week,
number of
burials
in
died
272.
284.
168.
193.
Amfterdam
Perhaps the above computation of the number of inhabitants in Amfterdam is too great; though,
miftake not, Mr. Karjeboom eftimated them at
243,000. And of late, many Jews banifhed from
6245.
if I
other countries,
amount
have made
to 200,000.
an addition to
the
number:
reckons,
that
they hardly
yet
AmsterDAM
*
FOREIGN PRISONS.
in
yet
1775,
eighteen;
in
in
I
found but eighteen debtors;
1776, only fifteen; in 1778,
June 1781 fixteen, and in November, feventeen ; and in June 1783,
feventeen *.
The
ten feet
for
inches thick;
The
bedftead &c.
half thick,
door-
There are on the groundtwo rooms for debtors, and twelve or thirteen for criminals, which open
into paflages feven feet wide ; and below ground there are eight rooms more for
;
floor
criminals.
is
The windows
are
never
left
alone
reward
They
which there
criminal
is
prevent
to
faithfully,
it
is
hours
in
condemned rooms a
are always with him
the
In
cells.
all
after
From 1693
1736
1746
And
only
five criminals
fentence.
to
at
in
my
vifit
in
1783,
The
for the
ftill
in the magiftrates
room,
hope only
in terrorem,
is
in
1778 only
and their
In 1781
all
fix
delinquents
there
the allowance
is
* There are
two
the fame
in
fome,
more.
One
whom
places
was
;:
HOLLAND.
Sect. IV.
57
faid,
Am
t er "
dam
well,
and there
the orphan-houfe,
for a long term, to the rafp, or fpin-houfe, are fent to
brought up
and not
in induftry,
left deftitute
At
a
drawn by
logwood,
of a
is
and
man
driving
tion,
Virtutis
Qua
Over
this device,
there
is
domare
eft
cuntti pavent.
Yet regard
ment.
is
men
a reprefentation of two
in
At
Caftigatio.
men
her
in chains, with a
woman
near
left
is
is
In
filk.
In fummcr 1776 there were fifty-four prifoners.
fbme rooms, where they alfo fleep, there were ten or twelve men rafping an appointed
Others were in the warehoufes, forting and weighing others bringing the wood
talk.
for I faw
to thofe rooms.
make
hours they
go
to
fell
to vifitants,
four regents
whom
who manage
ftivers
The
gaoler or father
is
obliged to obey
ftridtly
the orders of the high-bailiff, the burgomafters, and alfo of the regents.
may
In extra-
in.
The
to
fix to
any of
he, or
He
* In
evening; at
in the
many
fix
their
was
ftrift in
cots,
them up
all
In no cafe
forts
The "father
compare the
At Amfterdam, June
ftiver loaf
is
of
beji rye
5,
bread,
lb.
10 oz.
equal to one milling, the white bread was above two pence a pound.
By
lift
and black
It
of the
ajjixe
rye bread
may be proper
diftinclions
as
and a deacon's
have
7,
1783
lb.
lefs
the
As
lb.
white bread
v>
as
fomewhat dearer.
oz. for
two
ftivers,
exemption from the city watch.; liberty of free entrance after one of the city gates
is
fhut
muft
RaspHOUSE.
;:
FOREIGN PRISONS.
He
He
muft
them
the regents
to
The
collect
all
when
is
feverely punifhed if
required.
at four
They
appoint a fervant
to give any necefTary affiftance to the father, to cut the flices of bread for the prifoners
One of thefe
thefe rooms, in
The fame
it
cots.
in the
prifoners
it
at night,
Few
con-
for the
to the houfe
was found to be too laborious for moft of the prifoners, to work with
faws,
forty
a fortnight or oftener.
vifit
this houfe, in
prifoners; in
Each of
evening to
in the
is ill,
it
The
fix
or eight
medical gentlemen,
who
ruptures *.
No
friends of the prifoners are permitted to vifit them, without exprefs orders
duction ofJpirituous
two
ftivers
Mondays
liquors, or
from
intro-
into
father.
Every
all
vifitant
is
obliged to put
Every evening,
The
laws,
at
eight
implements for their work, are taken from them in the evening, and returned in the
If a convict be guilty of breaking any thing considerable, of burning the
morning.
logwood, or
that
neglect or diibbedience, he
of.
fined to bread
and water
or drown,
is
faid
in a
is
On
a fiction.
Prayers are read morning and evening, and before and after meals, by one of the
beft-behaved convicts
a clergyman on
Once
and divine
fervice, with a
fcrmon,
is
had
am much
this
in the chapel
by
performed
Sunday mornings.
information
their very
come
to
him
obliged for copies of the rules and inftruclions to this houfe, the fpin-houfe, and the <work-
btuft.
to
HOLLAND.
Sect. IV.
59
to contract or lengthen the terms of confinement of the convicts, according to their good
or bad behaviour,
The
as
patients,
Here
Some
With
themf.
fix
no infirmary
is
their labour
at
my
laft
vifit,
Ihirts
keeps them in
flight diforders.
Spin-houfe
Great care
is
fome chapters of
the
who
fuperintend and infpect the work, the diet, and the lodging of the prifoners; and to
chaftife the difobedient.
Sunday
Breakfaft.
The
Three
two pounds of
Monday
Tuefday
fait
Six
Dinner.
Gray
Breakfaft.
As on Monday.
White or gray peafe boiled
Wednefday Breakfaft.
flices
fait
peafe with
fait
flices
thick.
and vinegar.
and fage.
As on Monday.
Dinner.
Supper.
Breakfaft.
Six flices^of rye bread with butter, and a piece of bread as or Sunday morning.
Stockfifli, with fweet milk and butter upon it.
Dinner.
fuli
meat.
Breakfaft.
Dinner.
Thar/day
house.
perfons are confined in private rooms, to which none have accefs, unlefs in
thofe prifoners.
The
whom
of
Rasp-
houfe provides for the prifoners, diet *, clothes, fhoes.and floekings, with
Amster-
Friday
As Tuefday.
Saturday
Breakfaft.
As Tuefday.
Dinner.
As Wednefday fupper.
it.
it.
Their drink is four pints of beer daily. But on holidays, viz. two days
at Eafter, Afcenfon-day, two at
Whi/funtide, three at the fair time, and two at
Chriftmas, they have for dinner, fmoked or fait meat or
bacon, beans or peafe, carrots or cabbage, and the three
fair days they have ftrong beer.
t There are many of thefe rooms, or houfes of confinement in Holland, called Verbeterhuizen
regulations of fome of
The
nn
SpinH0USE
FOREIGN PRISONS.
6o
Amstbrm
S p|\
house.
on a
fcaffold.
As
one Q f
t j ie
till
me
The
fum
to a
purchafe a
fufficicnt to
had
a full
longer than a
the plate.
amounted
it
ftaid
view of her
common
vifitant,
The
miftrefs kept
or
little tea
what was
for
coffee,
all
to
partake.
The
wooden
cafes,
two perfons.
for
In each of
flieets,
the regents.
In
in
this
number of
whom
fent in
from the
work from
fix to
of work
city.
fitting in prefence
the
from one
fame holidays
to eight.
tables
them.
hammer
down
pfalm
cheerful
and each
filled
all
five minutes.
flood
Then
two
at
before
fet
up
and
they
fat
four of them.
then they
The
much was
Hours of
as at the Rafp-houfe.
Of
&c.
They had
twelve, and
each prifoner.
Tax.
fell
other liquors, and one fourth part of what was received at public exhibitions and diverfions.
At my vifit
in
June
The
removed
into the
new
work-houfe.
Sunday
Dinner.
Supper.
Buttermilk.
Monday
Dinner.
White beans.
Supper.
Tue/day
Dinner.
Beans.
Supper.
Buttermilk.
Wednrfday Dinner.
*Thurfday
Friday
Saturday
Gray
peafe.
Supper.
Buttermilk.
Dinner.
Barley.
Supper.
Dinner.
White beans.
Supper.
Buttermilk.
Dinner.
Beans.
Supper.
Buttermilk.
Here
Amsterdam.
HOLLAND.
Sect. IV.
6*
A ^*"
Here
at
(as
in
regulated
firft
Drunkards
large
room
at
my
one of
vifits I
employed
in
faw forty-fix
women
and the
;.
fail-cloth; thirteen
names of the prifoners*. Some men and boys were in another large room,
which there were many looms. But moft of the men were at work in the courts,
inferibed the
in
counted forty or
fifty
mending the
fpacious
and
found
it
The
bought
but
it
in confiderable quantities.
The
which
The
Thefe
at
my
commodious
and the
office
removed
ingenious architect
The
tax.
prifoners are
vifit in
into the
finifhed.
New
Work-
There were
favoured,
me
with
building.
prifons)
Spin-houfe \.
as in the
deficiency
two hundred.
to
the kitchen
Dutch
The produce
in the
a hundred and
in the forenoon.
to
care of their
bedding.
t The
prifoners at the
Though
company
in the houfes
the fame
employment: here
is
a quick
fit
fale for
oakum
for
for ufe.
of correction in Holland, the prifoners have meat only on Sundays, yet the peafe,
made
into
a.
is
is
'
muflr.
New
Workhouse.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
Dol
^
P
and would
62
da"*"
Dol-hvis.
m"
ft
The ground
rooms.
'
the
as
it
good plan
plot
is
is
bet
of working
in the recefs
crown of
Each perfon has a feparate room ten feet four inches by feven feet,
with two doors fome of the inner doors are latticed
the outer frequently
Over the door is an aperture in the wall of about a foot diameter, with a
Hand open.
fhutter.
In a fmall court there are twelve rooms (marked with the letters of the alphabet) far
Each has one flrong door, always fhut, widi an aperture for the intro-
the outrageous.
duction of victuals, which are put into a clean copper bafon chained on the outfide.
There were
clean.
alfo apertures
At
Over
the
rooms of
the
Common
flivers is
my
all
firft
as in
vifits I
rooms
not allowed to go up
vifitants are
admitted below.
The windows
all
whofe friends
for thofe
outwards.
the peft-houfe, and feveral hofpitals for the fick
I vifited
general the impropriety of keeping the patients too warm, by placing their beds, with
recejfes
is
was not
OrphanhousE.
The
This
an exception.
is
women's ward
and though
in
and fpacious,
lofty
full
of patients,
In the Orphan-houfe
at
Amfterdam
there
o^
on the ground-floor
enclofed
and
in
boxes
refectories
were
the walls.
in
The
in
For want of
air,
three
children
in
each
fo
other orphan-houfes in this city, and in the orphan-houfe at Rotterdam) are indeed
objects
of great companion.
indolent
Many
of the fervants
and
miferably nafty,
the children
to
in
great
degree.
is
me
mod
On
in
houfes are
thefe
old and
this
my
to
fome of the
" It
indignation,
common
people in Hol-
land.
is
HOLLAND.
Sect. IV.
is
ficians
all
63
Thus do
The
truft.
the phy-
as do,
a feeble
are
and fickly
Amster
DAM
o RPH ANHOUSE.
race.
In the prifon at
Leeuwarden
fevcral
At my former
178
ment
vifit
there were
forty-five.
make
in the Rafp-houfe,
and
twenty-nine
at
all
offence a
it
women, and
but entertained
fufHciently,
from whence
after;
inftru-
in
fell
me
in a
with her
them
to
November 178 1,
whom
good while
November
in
others
miftrefs going
mon
men
vifitants.
Leeuwar
DEN *
the
murmurs upon
the
concluded the
fault
bottoms and
fides
one.
For the
two
clofets, the
fituation.
Groningen
The
gallows
There
is
alfo here
hang
after
execution,
till
On
is
placed on
(November 1781)
left
is
Over
Vitiorum femina
On
is
In each
is
Thefe were
Anno 1664.
have an opening
Gron reGEN
in their
room
lately
FOREIGN PRISONS.
64
Zwolle.
Zwolle in
many years.
In the prifon at
The
the ramparts.
November 178 1
In
there were in
1S
women.
There
chained.
worked
is
in their
rooms
On
open
As
Jlept as well as
which
room by themfelves and they had alfo a feparate lodgingtwo who were weaving, and had their door
;
fpinning, except
examined
this prifon
Utrecht.
in a
room.
fides
twenty-fix
it
men and
ieventeen
it
At Utrecht,
in
at
two of
whom
The
one of
1,
twenty years.
it
who thought
it.
week,
firft
is
five
June 1783,
in
ftivers f.
The
ftate
allows
For, as he told
thirteen ftivers a day, which are paid to the gaoler.
me, " confinement here is not meant as punifhment; but only as fafe cuftody till
" trial
After which, ibme who are to be punifhed by a fhort imprifonment are fent
criminals
J.
<c
to another prifon,
had been
SpinHOUSE.
where they
live
have a
will
He
his prifoner,
fufficient
faid a
woman who
quantity
and
if fhe
be
ill,
but
altered."
went over the Spin-houfe with Mr. Van Goens, one of the magiftrates,
kindnefs I
am
were
all
employed
three in a room.
178
1,
there were
vifit,
The fame
fpinning wool,
and knitting.
They
The men were
* See ProfefTor
ten ftivers.
whofe
carding and
in
t In
to
Camper
obfervation I
There were no
alteration at
is
to
alfo
feparate
from the
reft.
In June
me by
the keeper at
Nimeguen, where
the allowance is
prifoners.
178^
HOLLAND.
Sect. IV.
1783, there were twenty-five men, and thirty-fix women, thirty of the
room, and
The
women
overfeer or keeper has a houfe for the refidence of himfelf and his family, and an
of
city, clear
ftates,
According to the
deductions.
all
copy of inftru5lions> he
He
a night out of the city, without leave from the chief officer and the regents.
with
affiftants,
done
all
attempted or introduced,
may
be concealed
that
not permitted
is
no
tools, or glafs,
He
muft
no gin or other
He
ployed
others.
feparate
from the
He may
reft.
correct moderately
for a
but
long term,
if
good
may
if
and
he em-
in ftrong
rooms
By
be ad-
vifitants are to
fee that
be prefent
his family,
take care that the manufacturer pays the fame for their work, as he would
from the
muft,
fearch every part of the cells twice a week, to fee whether any thing be
Jirong liquors
of
one
in
another.
fix in
a particular permifllon
The
fervant, or turnkey.
Liewenberch
upon
infeription
model
good county
for a
it,
becaufe
ftaircafe to
On
rooms above.
A part
There
hofpital.
veftibule,
windows
and two
flues
think
all
They have
galleries for
The
this is a
may be
frefh.
feen.
It
is
By opening
one of the
and
Like
floors confift
From
opening the
circumftance very
the
rooms over
the entrance to an open gallery (eight feet wide) over the paflage,
the wards
is
1567.
is
in
bule
it
by an
(as appears
fides,
in each
was endowed
it)
The
the vefti-
from which
may be
rain-water
always
condueled from the roof through vaults built on the outfide of the wards, to prevent them
from being offenfive.
At Deventer,
were
all
ftivers a
clean
the prifon
and fanded,
is
but had
Iffel.
no prifoners.
It confifts
When
there
as
is
at
are
any, fixteen
FOREIGN PRISONS.
removed
to the Stadt-houfe,
continued.
I
important fubject
have
in view.
on the
it
know
mod,
appearing in the prifons, the indufiry and regular condubl of the prifoners, or
cleanlinefs
GERMANY.
The
them
Hanover,
as at
Hamburg,
Zell,
of
neceffity
cleanlinefs
in prifons,
moft conducive to
in fituations
it
that
near rivers
is,
Berlin,
places.
The
One
perly, galley-Jlaves.
caufe of this,
where
is
a prifon to themfelves.
King of Pruffia,
to the
called,
impro-
commitment.
They work on
the roads,
by the government.
as well as fed,
they have two pounds of bread a day, and the value of three halfpence every day they
work.
I
faw but a very few under-ground dungeons in any new prifons abroad
each criminal
crime he
as the
One
rooms up
alone in his
is
flairs
room; which
charged with
is
is
gone to
Italy,
and
if
nefs
and
in
many of the
gaols
in
Germany (nor
but while
Germany
is,
they are
England, &c.
And
lefs ftrong,
in
a certain
ments to
more or
England, &c.
is
At Lunenburg
was confined
friendfliip that I
or from
Hague
fomewhat more to
at the
charities,
in confequence
to
promote the
of an accident, favoured
me
my
fuccefs of
acknowledg-
my
inquiries;
live
GERMANY.
Sect. IV.
live
and
But there
vegetables.
feparate prifons, in
are
6?
is
all
condemned criminal
is
fome petty
may be more
commonly executed
is
admitted
proper than
The
commodious room,
or two
prifoners after
treat
factor has
week
Perhaps, when a
offences.
into
remaining
his
all
male-
which
hours.
in
fo be the
at
is
A Latin
is
in
infcription
There
miferable
and ftockings.
They were
He
*.
are feventeen
in
prifon
was erected
it
utility,
women and
fpinning
The
the purpofes
prifoner.
Osnabrug.
to find here no
at
miferable prifoners.
who
amiable Prince
1756, for
in
prifon
means of
The
almoft
children,
all
found many
without fhoes
different
defcription.
made me
me
-by words.
magiftrate
it
till
few weeks.
prifon
is
for debtors,
Hanewinkel, allured
very lately
In 178
The mode
of the Ofnabrug
it ftill
fitted
up
for a debtor,
remained unoccupied.
infcribed,
1776 the
That
me
or none at
all,
efto.
in
of but
little
trade.
In fuch
of torture here
torture.
large
Bremen.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
Hamburg, and Bremen,
given
it
their families,
little
credit that
in prifon
The
townfman
rooms
Gaol
(or
German
cities that I
any
in prifon.
cells)
vifit
the prifons,
a tower
is
lately
at
and
The
doors are four feet ten inches high and five inches thick, with iron plates between the
The windows
boards.
him
There has
by nine).
been no execution
in this
He
found
had made
his
years.
high
One was
fix feet
ftreet, there
The
another was ten feet by five and a half, and fix feet high.
rooms
are fix
for criminals
no
allowance
is
fix
prifoners.
beat himfelf to death againft the wall, which was ftained with his blood.
At
rooms
for
The
fix, eight,
their
is
only
term of confinement
or fourteen days.
very quiet.
But
Wefer
is
men and
twenty-eight
women, and
in
and
178
1,
men and nineteen women, all at work except a woman who had broke her
The ftronger and lefs docile men rafp logwood : others weave a fet talk of hair
leg.
carpets &c.
Tne keeper appoints a weaver in the houfe to inftrucl every new comer,
who generally teaches him the art in a fhort time. The women's apartments were very
The diet of the men
clean
their work is fpinning cows and goats hair, knitting &c.
differed from that of the women only in quantity; two men were in a mefs, and three
women. They have meat only on Sundays and great holidays. The keeper has a
fal.iry, and fells nothing.
The prifoners defcend by a trap-door into the gallery of the
church, where the men and women are feparated, and have wooden baluftrades before
nine
them.
is
enough
number of
to hold
hundred and
clean
four beds
eighty,'
in
rooms opening
each.
into paffages
The number
in
which
in
large
GERMANY.
Sect. IV.
69
The regulations for the conduct of the houfe were hung up in the
The poor are here liberally accommodated in the decline of life and their
Jarge work-room.
refectory.
all
who
church, and
in
from 1698.
Not long
was remarkable
for the
number of
but a Work-houfe has been lately eftablifhed for the purpofe of employing them;
ftreets;
and here,
two rooms,
in
all
and
at leaft
happy
make
miftrefles.
nine years
They
are
The
benefits arifing
ftreets
Orders and regulations are hung up in the houfe, and confift of nineteen articles,
The
from which
ARTICLE
The
J.
warned.
For
die
come
firfl
II.
IV.
V.
Work
noon always
One hour
to XIII.
their heads
combed, and
their
III.
VI.
fix to
allowed
VII.
Above
is
deacons
to
them.
vifit
fix to
day
and
in the after-
at one.
have begun work they are to be called over, hear prayers, and fing a hymn.
after they
Direct the puniftiment to be inflicted for not attending regularly, and their treatment in
cafe of ficknefs.
XIV.
Orders the punifhments for fwearing, injuring others, and damaging the work.
XV.
who hinder
their children
in this
houfe or
at fchcol.
XVI.
Declares the peculiar attention the magiftrates will give to thofe parents, &c.
children in the fear of
XVII.
to
The
purpofe
Bremen.
XIX.
God, and
in
to houfe, every
I fat
their
who bring up
is
No fubfcription
week.
thirty-fix grofche a
inquifitive friend, a
taken
lefs
this
week.
is
German.
the effects of the ventilator ; and were ftruck with an offenfive fmell in one of the rooms.
low 5 and
indifpofed.
The
fymptom of the
him
exceffively
gaol-fever*
The
Work.
house.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
The
Hanover
Prison.
Hanover
Prifon at
Leyna; and
ago
thirty years
0:1
the banks
The
confifts
of the river
rooms have
lower
double doors, with large apertures over them guarded by double iron bars.
openings being oppofite to the windows afford the prifoners the only frefh
higher
the
allowed.
are
at
rooms
ftreet,
elevated above
the
they
floor,
and
In winter
coverlets.
but being too near the water, and lower than the
ftoves,
foners.
1776,
whom
to
little
they mult be unhealthy, and this appears from the countenances of the pri-
this prifon in
of
(tone,
warmed by
are
folid
Thefe
air
are larger
found in
and
October 178
in
1,
there were
fix
,At
my
laft vifit
whom
many
allowance to
the fame,
all is
vifited
in
twenty-nine prifoners,
The
trial.
When
it
in
more
for the
each room)
fecured by chains on their feet fattened to the walls, and irons on their wrifts with a
The
keeper
is
no
fells
of
fix
repofe,
and an
foldiers
morning
officer
fo
is
and do duty
eight,
at
is
who
are
alternately
A guard
relieved every
and
truft
various edicts for regulating this prifon are put into frames, and
hung
He
liquor.
old and infirm, and the prifon grows evidently dirtier as he grows older.
four
The
in the council-
chamber.
The
engine
The
kept.
A criminal
morning.
time, at putting to
his head, breaft,
is,
fuffered the
him
as
in
is
the third quejiion (the executioner having torn off the hair
On
laft
from
and fometimes
the gaoler.
If the criminal faints, ftrong falts are here applied to him, and not vinegar,
as in
TION.
it
and fecretary
fome other
The
House
CoTrec-
time for
Houfe
places.
of correction
is
new building
whom
made
in
The
girls
in
an
in
Here were
of
ing at fo
In one
many
room
frnall
airy
fituation,
appropriated to
were
all
executioner,
linen,
and making
The
lift
boys, in
fnoes and
there were fix boys (the eldeft only twelve years of age) work-
looms
and clothes.
in fpinning.
There
are alfo
GERMANY.
Sect. IV.
The
in the houfe.
girths, nippers
and
own
Befides their
clothes,
coverlets of
lift
orders for regulating the hours of work, learning, recreation, &c. were
fchool-room.
the beds
all
Hanover
The
me.
C"
*J*
hung up
in the
This
is
A good
him.
for
of only two years Handing, does great honour to the founder and
inftitution,
director
monument
the beft
is
to prefide,
In the town-houfe
Brunswick
at
rooms of confinement
for citizens,
The
is
It confifts
and
flaves, the
But
at
of three
rooms, but none of them had been occupied for a confiderable time.
no execution
Brunswick.
in
irons,
appeared healthy and clean, and were furnifhed with fhoes, ftockings and proper cloth-
The
ing.
vifit
being on Sunday,
round
their waifts
all
My
their legs.
were ranged on the outfide of the houfe, ready for work the next day.
The
work-houfe, or Houfe of correclion, Hands near the river that runs through the
On
the
the
work-rooms
firft
and fecond
(it
lunatics in chains)
preventing
being
feeing
in
them
all
This accounted
My
conductor
In
(except fome
rooms
the paffages.
at chapel,
city.
floor the
employed
me from
however admitted
who
infilled
was
floor at
the
on carrying
On
dated
one of the doors, both within and without, was hung up the following
December
12,
1748.
The weight
Fine
Here, as
in the Pruflian
lb.
ez.
10
at
no
ajfize, tike,
Second
4-2
Third
cities,
bonne grofche
ditto
there
order,,
but
is alfo
(3-Jd.)
ditto.
more
House
OF
Correction.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
7*
Bruns-
more
<c
that they
is
expired, to
mud
put a
affift
florin
them
in paffing
" prevent them from begging or ftealing. Laftly, nothing mult be given
" keepers, or to the prifoners confined for punifhment."
to the
Zell.
Lunenburg.
before feen
kiln,
hundred weight.
It
is
Many
cement.
cellent
for the
Hamburg and other diftant places, as it makes an exmen were employed, but the criminals, of whom there
Their allowance was one pound
a half
it
fent to
other
The
warehoufes.
in the
much
provifions
cheaper than in
England.
At Harburg
Harburg.
on one
is
leg,
halfpenny worth
three
on the
But, notwithftanding
of ammunition
who have
when
this,
and
bread,
orders
Their allowance
They
farthings a day.
five
on them
to fire
with irons
fortifications,
waifts.
if
efcaped to
Hamburg.
Hamburg.
Hamburg
my
all
executioner (who
is
it
gaoler)
Here
is
The
affected.
deeper
*.
execution
week
in a
It
me
at chapel,
but
deep
is
cellar
of
this prifon.
was the
is
In the Biittulcy
decollation.
(a
telling
The
me he
mark
In
ought
who
firft
which
places,
It
feet
Divine
is. 3d.).
and ufed
marks
four
is
faw them
Voght.
no court-yard, and
is
with
flairs,
fquare.
1776,
eight times.
Above
the ground-floor.
fervice
in irons.
in
friend, Senator
to be buried
fuffered
by
it
my
have
is
kept
the
laft
was a woman,
Work-
The JVerkund
Tucht-haus
HOUSE.
the reception of the poor
reckoned infamous.
The
inhabitants
is
beggarsand
The rooms
are
petty offenders.
fifteen
feet
Confinement
in
it
is
not
weaving ftockings,
Chap. XVI.
linen,
hair,
and
Of Torture.
wool
GERMANY.
Sect. IV.
73
woo
l ;
forty-five
about
There
hundred.
fix
is
was happy to
and
inhabitants,
directors (or
find, at
much
lad
vifit,
to
who meet
cannot be faid
to cleanlinefs.
as
regents)
room appropriated
their ladies,
my
at the
in praife
governed by eight
and too
men have
It is
the
women
An
above.
hour
is
There
are feveral
four feet
nine
There
a fpacious
is
inches,)
which Mr.
together
Ethiopia,
names
Fan
their
But the
Hajfel,
fo
kind
feet
by
London, &c.
India,
fick
rooms
regu-
alfo the
me,
give
to
as
1766 from
the
inftruftions for
governors
orders
for
and
committed
The
Steward
is
poor, &c. to
all
in
as
have been
(Sundays excepted)
as a fignal
for offences.
the
He
rife
and
morning
at
five,
his
He
is
then to deliver
as to
duties.
They
of the other
or
fell
officers,
any thing
for
to converfe
them.
The School-mafier muft inftrud the" children in religion, and encourage them, at
proper times, to learn and repeat portions of Scripture.
He muft alfo teach them,
reading, writing and accounts, and a decent behaviour to thofe that vifit the houfe.
He
of the other
officers,
are
ojder to guard againft mifchief, and wicked contrivances, and the danger of
it
and
his
The
FOREIGN PRISONS.
74
The
Hamburg
0
^*"
on
Tajk-majler
muft be paid
and
The
Ikill.
felf or
his
The
muft keep an
Clerk
money, and
The
materials
His
wife has
the care of
their
exacl: account,
prepare their
to
wood and
provifions.
He
The
the
all
the
tools,
and
conduct them
to
to ferve
them with
rooms
are fwept
is
He
fteward,
all
it
and from
to,
private advantage.
fee
to their ability
is
own
and to
it.
trade in
tafk-mafter
'
muft avoid
all
con-
familiarity in
the bed-rooms of the prifoners two or three times every week, and examine their
The
all
He
the
go
and obtaining
in the
The
all
night, or to bring in
company.
Such,
on
humble
their
When
neceflary,
to
are.
petition to be difcharged.
are
clothed.
receive clean
fliirts,
Abfence from
others
feeing
prayers
quarrel
an
fwearing,
and
fight
fine,
fix
curling,
without
or
forfeiture.
lying
and
cheating quarelling,
giving notice to
who
All
abet
or
fteward or fchool-
the
violence,
or
Such
as
and for
work, are to be punifhed with fhort allowance, or with ftripes
After
a continued refufal, muft be ignominioufly expofed or put into the pillory.
an efcape they are recommitted and punifhed ; but for the fecond efcape they are
refufe
to
obferved
in
the table of
At
great feftivals.
their
diet,
that
rye bread,
and
at
break/aft
butter
with
hemp
it.
At
dinner
beaters,
arc
The
fick
are
ailowed
DENMARK.
Sect. TV.
allowed a better
by the
In
75
diet,
Hamburg.
phyfician.
the
(confinement in which
Spin-houfe,
is
employed in fpinning, in more lightfome rooms than thofe of the other houfe.
In
SpinH0USE
"
fifty-two.
1776, there were feventy-three prifoners, and in 1 781,
Here, as at fome other towns, is a prifon for flight offences (Roken-Kijle). The
punifhment to be confined for three or four days to two or three weeks, and live
To
The
prevent the
is
up ; but
it
is
returned to
The
fick
what
them
Hospital.
wards being crowded with beds, the ceilings low, and the windows kept Ihut in the
days, it may properly now be called a pejl-houfe.
In this city, fuppofed to contain ninety thoufand fouls, there were but three debtors
in 1776, and but one in 1781 * : and in the neighbouring town Altena, which
belongs to the king of Denmark, there were but two the firft time, and one the lad.
warmed
At
the entrance of
many towns
in
Denmark,
K.
on the top of which the figure of a man is placed, with a fword by his fide, and
a whip in his right hand -f
Gibbets and wheels are alfo placed on eminences, on
which the bodies of malefactors are fometimes left after execution, to deter others
.
from
their crimes.
"
"
**
que
le
" Aucun
jugement prealable de
Quiconque
s'etait
fes
pairs,
pourvu
de
qu'il
donnat
la protection
des loix.
" Les
"
&
caution
infligee fans
lui
biens de la
femme
"
pliques, l'apoftafie,
*f
fur le fait."
la
&
le
dans
forcelerie,
la
les
moindres
trahifon,
de
delits,
furent
mais
les
meurtres,
les
Hambourg, p.
vols forces
eut
faifi
le
ou comcriminel
and 23.
to follow crimes
be ufeful
alfo in
England?
Notwithftanding the numbers of fifhermen and loofe boys about Amfterdam, the Hague, and Schevelin,
their public walks
ftriclnefs
of the
different
police,
Criminals
Altena.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
Criminals are never put into irons before their
hended
ad
in the
application
tion,
trial,
unlefs
when they
made
is
parliament,
to
are appre-
After condemnathe
reverfes
fentence pronounced.
Some criminals are punifhed by being whipped in the market-place, and banifhed.
Some of the lower fort, as watchmen* coachmen, &c. are punifhed by being led
through the
what
city in
is
meafured one
clearer idea of
in
Copenhagen.
The
it,
have reprefented
dreaded, and
particularly
place of execution
it
is
and
is
executing this on
prifoners,
ftate
him
This
Decollation
two
top,
are
is
never heard of
common mode
of execution
but
and
in
it
After
for death,
fentence of a criminal
the
confirmed,
is
He
thinks neceffary.
is
the
In order to convey a
night-robberies
the
is
enclofe the
to
at
a drawing.
in
is
but
This
head,
Berlin,
at
the
is
able
aperture for
as
the
he
is
chaplain
is
allowed to be in an upper
Executions are
rare.
are
condemned
to
work
crime.
The
llavery
'
it
and
to
punifhment
for
has
grand-larceny has
been,
fince
frequency of the
life.
At Rendsburg
Rends-
BURG
for
life,
in
a Hate was a
diftinguifhed
of
one
ftiver
were more
lift
(a penny) a day *.
clear
fixty
well,
fleeves,
They
lie
on barrack-beds.
common
Their countenances
who
hagen.
At Copenhagen, the State-prifon is in the citadel. In this prifon there are five
or flx rooms, about fifteen feet by fourteen, with one window, and a cafe (or bed)
The Danifh
foldiers
fort
ftivers
a day.
in
Plate j
C OP
E N H .A
Ct
lKT..
DENMARK.
Sect. IV.
77
Thefe rooms were clean and white-warned. I obferved here one prifoner,
an officer and foldier in the room, and another at the
The weather being then very warm,
door, though the guard-room was below.
and this is all the
(thermometer 77 0 .) he was permitted to have his window open
frefh air allowed ftate-prifoners, for they are never fuffered to go out of their
each.
CopenHAG-EN.
rooms.
their
fervice,
At
by an oblique perforation
it
into the
obferved
ment of
foldiers, but
the
in
the wall,
to
Struenfee
Here
clofe
are
no dungeons.
In the prifon at the Stat-houfe (Stadens arrejl-hus) there were nine perfons confined
The
apartments, which
obferved to be clean
The
offenfive.
There
week.
are
in
this
prifon
in their
Stadens
feveral
granted them
allowance
work
at
is
damp dungeons.
arched
feveral
refident.
The
confifts
B'lve-
tower.
the gaoler,
as well as
who keeps
in
public
the
a falary
Here,
The
of the men-}-.
thofe
contraft to
own
reafon
is,
attentive
and con-
fex,
The
victs
fide
Stoft-haufe
from
is
Here
this
Over them
and
alfo a chapel,
which has no
flaves,
night
and
as they
one
f a
leg,
Count
many
Struenfee
"
what a
t The
clofe
both
legs
Thefe
rooms
for the
Here
Some had
had iron
firft
others
one
two
diftinguifhed
of barrack-beds.
who were
tiers
there are
On
to llavery.
are two
prifon, there
condemned
came
collars
out,
flight,
chains
light
:
on
one was
though in view
reverfe
is
common
in
England.
chained.
StoctHAUSB.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
78
Copensiac?-
On
ha use.
about fifteen
The
feet
diftrefs
fervice
who
the
at
lay
and defpair
*.
on barrack-beds.
in
My
firft
They
fat
was on Saturday
at
door.
different
parts of the
man
the
firft
down.
pafled
me
to the
were properly
beyond
dirty
then
The
my
at the
revifited
their
At
defcription.
from
were
flaves
went
chapel,
vifit, I
chained to the
rooms, where
together on
placed
my
offenfivenefs of
firft vifits
to the
prifon s.
JLngliJlj
Thefe
from
&c
by feven,
fhocking to humanity.
this
to efcape,
third
Thefe,
inflicted
flaves
to
five
work on
eleven, and
from
one
to
foldiers.
for
working
Their allowance
fix.
ftiver
and
is
a day
ftiver
in
in
is
pounds of
winter, and in
They were
half.
fummer,
feven
attended by a
obferved that
fome of them were chained to one another in pairs with loofe chains. Thefe, I found,
were fome of the worft, who had pafled under the hands of an executioner and were
branded
Spinhouse.
on
firft clafs.
In the Spin-houfe there were about three or four hundred prifoners forting, carding,
f*pi nn n
g wool, for the king's manufactory in this city f. The rooms are fpacious,
but notwithftanding this they are clofe and offenfive, the windows being kept fhut.
ant
In the court
rafping
or
employed
fick.
The
in
man
women were
chopping logwood.
Sixty-fix
furgeon told
confined for
diameter, on
in
prifons,
found
life
J, and all
afligned to the
but
this
they crofs each other at right angles, to prevent their bcdng wrenched
out.
t The King's military cloth manufactory was built in 1760. It is four hundred and twenty-five
long, and employs from five to fix hundred perfons.
All the wool fpun in the feveral houfes of
Great quantities, efpecially of
correftion in the Danifh dominions is brought to this manufactory.
feet
the finer fort intended for clothes for the officers, are fpun in the houfe here defcribed.
In
DENMARK.
Sect. IV.
79
The
feet.
length
Almin-
D ELIC,
wide, are feveral rooms, in each of which about ten or twelve perfons were
employed,
earn,
is
moftly
Being allowed
worfted*.
fpinning
in
There was a
directors f.
gentleman) whofe
keep
to
regulations
all
they
fettled
can.
by the
a manufacturer, (a Scotch
it.
There being no work-rooms, the bed-rooms were crowded. The fewers are very
properly detached from the reft of the houfe, and there is a paffage to them from
* It was a hardihip on the aged and infirm, to be obligid to fpin wool, when they had been long
accuftomed to fpin flax or hemp, which
cleaner.
is
f This being a good, though not common mode of a/li/ling the poor,
regimen for the Sick, as figned by the directors, and hung up.
here
Soup of pork,
Sunday.
the feafon
or lamb, with
beef,
i
Monday.
I,
ijSi.
carrots,
lads
a Jkilling, a halfpenny
lod,
half an ounce.
fkilling,
Tuefday.
Wednesday.
fkilling.
Beef and pork, as on Sunday.
Grout made of buck-wheat and water, three quarters of a pot, a /killing.
Thurfday.
Coleworts cut fmall and boiled with beef, pork, &c. one pot for a
Friday.
Saturday.
The cook
/hall alfo
more than a
/killing's
keep and
alfo
fell
to
the
Danilh brandy
according to the
poor,
/killing.
of a pot, a
/killing.
regulations, bread,
beer,
butter,
purchafe
worth in a day.
Regimen
Sunday Dinner.
of meat, a
flice
foup, with
Monday.
Tuefday.
Wednefday.
thurfday.
F riday.
of meat, or inftead
it.
flice
it.
As on Monday.
Saturday.
In cafe the
phyfician
or furgeon finds
prepare
whatever
is
ordered,
Lunding.
JVendU.
Csrtfeti,
every
FOREIGN PRISONS.
00
Copenhagen-.
The
offensive.
which
is
in
at eight,
Frederick's
Hospital.
The
the centre.
falary
floors
He
perquifir.es
from being
is
officiates
is %s.
yd.)
clerk officiates
area,
is
Many
The
half.
and
felf;
Of
thefe,
gratis
others,
men, and
forty-two
bed
eighty-five
himwomen.
to
one hundred and fifty-eight were under the care of the phyfician, and
of patients.
The
would have
Here,
proper feparation
patients
their
If
were
this
and
univerfally
it
the cuftom to
is
fixty-
two
thefe
white-wafli
hofpitals
their
in
praftifed
a very beneficial
made between
is
and
forts
them
prifons,
table
FULL
Dinner
Sunday.
DIET.
Supper
at One.
with
Hafty pudding
with eggs
at Seven.
butter
bread
and
butter
beer.
Bouillon
Tuefday.
Broth with
lamb
veal or
meat;
Wednefday.
with
foup
barley
pearl
raifins,
every night.
fricafee.
toafted
roafted, or boiled.
fifh
boiled veal,
Thurfday,
Friday.
Saturday.
Rice milk
toafted
filh
Soup,
three
rye
pints,
with
beef four
bread half
a pound j
beer a pint.
Bread and
DIET.
Supper
at Eleven.
As on Monday.
Cherry-foup with toafted bread.
or fteaks.
COMMON
rice
DikneI
Sunday.
Wine
broiled meat.
at Six.
a pint,
bread
and butter a quarter of an ounce j rye
ounce ; eer
half a pound, with butter half an
a pint.
Bread and
butter
night
Monday,
DENMARK.
Sect. IV.
Monday.
Tuefday.
81
barley.
Co penhag en,
fugar.
grits.
butter.
with wheaten
Water-gruel
and
vinegar
bread,
fugar.
As on Tuefday.
Thurfday.
Friday.
As on Monday.
Saturday.
As on Tuefday.
Rye
as
on
tea,
flour
or,
Tuefday.
Each
two
bifcuits
For fuch
(hall
patients as are confined to particular diet, the phyfician or furgeon, inftead of the ufual food,
wheaten bread.
barley-foup,
cherry-foup,
orders, veal-foup,
Broth and
water-gruel
is
forrel,
fpinnach,
codlins,
afparagus,
french plums,
and
Braim.
The
Berger.
Johannffen.
Thuljlrup.
Liunge.
Hennings.
Rottboll.
Hofrnan.
The wards
and
Marine
Hospital.
in fine weather
care
taken to
is
almoft
all
of
whom
hundred and
fickly countenances.
found no proper management here, and the rooms were clofe and dirty.
director fhewed
In
me
The
chaplain,
little
neat.
St. John's
who
was
formerly
of the building
for
At Copenhagen
me
with his
It
is
de Pflug,
a well regulated
who
eftablifhment.
The
is
the
regula-
am
obliged to
Mr.
Trefchow, chap-
*
in the beginning of July 1781, I
20 ounces
favoured
the wards.
This
refides
the
Hospital.
the peft-houfe,
tions
When
is
were of
all
patients.
him,
H0USE
which
John's Hofpital,
St.
city, there
told
Orphan-
penny Englifh)
bought four
of the fecond
forts
fort,
of Iread; of the
10 ounces
fineftl
of the third
had
fort,
SWEDEN.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
SWEDEN,
In
Denmark
an
offenfive as thofe in
Sweden,
But
Some
Denmark.
me
led
this
hope
to
much
efpecially as I
officer
and
every Saturday by
vifited
of the prifons at
the city, which ftands on feven iflands, being well adapted for that fituation.
When
I attended at the trials in the court of juftice in July, the want of frefti
air, in confequence of the windows being fhut, affected me fo much as to make me ill a confiderable time afterwards.
There
fouthern,
are three
mud
(called
The
general
is
prefent
Smed-garden)
mode
afterwards
King
of execution
fet
on
five
end of a
manner of fwearing
to
to
all
in
to parliament,
and on each
a witnefs was
the
reft
by requiring him
in
gold
his
man
for
to put
In civil
The
was
The
In fome
trials
both
caufes,
In
petty
for
plaintiffs
and
a profecution
book of
laws,
called
them
the profecution.
in
in
again
and
fail,
after
gaoler told me, that agreeably to the king's order, the door-way had been bricked up.
civil
The
chain)
fcaffold,
when many
juftice,
(with
feveral
others,
adminiftered.
on a
offences,
The
which
examination,
are beheaded
torture,
The
tried.
of a
one in die
and ordered
be bricked up *.
hours
table,
Women
by the axe.
is
fire at
and
which
one
not in irons.
prifon
Stockholm;
prifons at
ftill
On my
open.
different
SWEDEN.
Sect. IV.
different doors.
83
taking place, that the contending parties fhook hands, and went off together fhedding
of joy.
tears
In the prifon called Norr Kiamndrs Ratt for the northern fuburbs, (which are four
times as large as the city
had
in
it
itfelf)
The
allowance,
It
four of which, having their windows nailed up, were very dark, dirty and offenlive.
five prifoners almoft
and
and
airy,
are
full
as
His room,
of idle people
who were
city,
The
fometimes ufed
was
in the
confequence of receiving no
in
ftifled,
an infirmary.
like thofe I
^k^tt
fix flivers
Here were
Norr
**
Soder
Kl AMNARS
Ratt.
except
air
The gaoler
in
my own
country,
drinking.
dirty,
The
Stads
Kl AMNARS
ATT "
condemned for a certain term, to bread and water. In one of thefe rooms there were
two perfons, who feemed almoft flarved, being allowed only fix flivers worth of
bread, (2d.) per day, and that fold them by an unfeeling gaoler ,
Here is no
chapel ; nor are the prifoners ever allowed to leave their noxious
coffins are
The
(to
cells.
obferved
Smed-garden
may
they
It
Their allowance
irons.
Two
is
fliver
fix
flivers per
Smedgarden.
twelve ounces.
On
where
the
women
refts
till
is
his execution,
which
is
There
in
irons
women
is
this
his
The men are allowed to walk in the court from eight to nine, and from four to
women are allowed the fame privilege, but at different times.
The Prijon for debtors is in the city, and confifts of two rooms on the frrft
five
the
Here were
fixteen men,
floor
Seeing thefe miferable objeas thankful for a fmall donation of bread, I faid
to the gaoler,
"
tence for twenty-eight days muft be very fevere." He replied, " it is good for their
health."
make a good conjecture of the ftate of a prifon, from the countenances of the prifoners
a fenI
can
:
complacency
and fubmiffion appear under kind treatment, even though the
apartments be bad, and the allowance
fcanty.
aU
Debtor
Prison.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
Stockholm.
all
day paid by
was informed,
Spinhouse.
The
0
The
ftivers a
j^ Qm
is
whom
infcription
on a
But
of prifoners was
Stockholm*
Stad
Spin-
declivity, at
day:
in
that
all
is
entitled
is
twenty
is fix
every
obliged to fpin two pounds and a half (equal to about three thoufand
of yarn
ells)
has an
ftands
it
The number
be removed to a more
Rafp-houfe
allowance to each
in
to
it is
or
Spin
^ ajp
their creditors
abridgment of
an
term of confinement,
their
this,
they are
become
proportion to their
in
diligence.
The women's
were
fickly,
and
their
rooms
On
fir
inquiry,
which,
ofTenfive.
it
as an infirmary
had
in
five fick
it
and
dirty
the girls.
women, and
doubt not,
owing
is
prifoners
want of
and other
fait
Some
provifions.
their admifiion
at
to bathe themfelves,
are
cleanlinefs,
and
and to continue
after
month.
They
the
in the
the keeper.
which
am
care of interefted
is
vifited
infpetlor
any credit
charitable
There were
Two
arifes
in
and
fummer,
at fix in
four.
falary of
-f.
inftitutions
infpeflors
in winter, at eight
all
and
men.
fome
Iospital.
evening
in
this
city
for humanity,
not
will
a diftinct
bed was
juft
mention
the
and
in it thirty-two patients.
common
is,
that
it
this,
in foreign prifons.
care and attention, only in thofe houfes where there are not refident
Hamburg,
Switzerland, &c.
The
RUSSIA.
Sect. IV.
The
and
in
or juniper tree
it
aflifted,
him
one of
^AU
the patients.
drefs
whom
HL
Mr.
attended
Stock-
Ho s
was a
woman
RUSSIA.
In
Russia the peafants and fervants are bondmen or flaves, and their lords (or
may inflidt on them any corporal punifhment, or banifh them to Siberia,
on giving notice of their offence to the police. But they are not permitted to put
them to death. Should they, however, die by the feverity of their puniihment, the
matters)
evaded.
eafily
is
Inftances,
brought him
his eftate,
tion that he
Debtors in
this
at
all
mould keep
twelve roubles
cafes
me
the
his land,
of private debts,
if
when he
but
if
he
fails
to
is
it
as Jlaves
any perfon
demanded
give
will
and gave
faved,
ftill
yearly wages,
and
fell
till
fufHcient
the debt
fuch perfon
may
is
is
fecurity
to
In fome
f.
pay twelve
take
liable to
mediately.
There
by the
are
military.
Second
lib.
fort,
coarieft, near
f One hundred
%
in Ruflia,
attention
is
9^02.
41b.
coptcks is a rouble,
f
r
but
all
An
no
prifoners.
ihillings.
impracticable fcheme has been advanced by a late author to oblige debtors in England to
by
their
own
labour.
The Marquis
and confeffed that he had injured the rights of humanity, and was aihamed that he had adopted
fiderate
work
fo incon-
an opinion.
In
Russia.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
So
Russia.
Jn
and humane
ff
diftinction
is
"
"
"
"
only appearances,
The
punifhment.
i.
who
a convict, 3. a criminal
2.
accufed perfon
only detained ;
is
There
no
is
punifhment of the
knoot is
more than
often dreaded
The governor
Peters-
BURG
me
all
of the police
inftruments
the
the
lacerating
is
death,
Petersburg was
at
for
and
that
fo
punifhment
marking
the
the
fix a
The
Knoot whip,
is
cat,
which
feet
half,
the
(which
criminals,
is
done by
a fingle
block
of a
confifts
wooden handle
fixed to a
common
axe and
Knoot.
but the
it.
kind as to
for
commonly ufed
noftrils
are imprifoned:
it is
there are
prifon as a
to
is
capital
whom
condemned
the two others
is
to
is
faftened
much
foftened
criminal.
Auguft 10,
178-1,
When
foldiers.
into a ring
of the knoot.
man and
prifon
round the whipping-poft, the drum beat a minute or two, and then fome
and
after
cords to a pofl
tight.
fipft
being roughly
made
ftript to
man
marked
his
taken
bound with
woman
five times
on the back.
The
fervant
Every ftroke
feemed to penetrate deep into her flefh. But his mafler thinking him too gentle,
pufhed him afide, took his place, and gave all the remaining ftrokes himfelf, which
were evidently more
fevere.
board.
The woman
fome
little
waggon.
as
man
fixty
figns of gratitude.
CLXXI.
In
RUSSIA.
Sect. IV.
many
now
who work on
the fortifica-
Fortress.
forts,
Some were
tions.
8*
P *" R S *
their legs,
feventy-five Haves with logs failened to both their legs, were lodged
which were
(till
more
clofe
offenfive.
in
four rooms,
were confined.
officers
and
ftove,
and moft of
men.
forty-four
fifteen
the
in irons.
perfons fick.
Prisons,
faw
reft
in
In two fmall and low arched cellars (very hot and offenfive)
This
the advantage they derive from the church near the prifon, for they are never
all
permitted to enter
guards of
it,
or to
go out of
their
rooms
foldiers.
In the Nezv government prifon behind the courts of juftice, there are barracks for the
The number
cluding two confined for debt, and twenty-feven male and female vagrants and petty
offenders,
all
crowded together
In the fuburbs
on both
Many
legs.
were boys
into
one room.
In one houfe
palifades.
irons
is
at
in
many
confifts
little
with
is
a large court
high
The
all
fix,
another five or
They
fubfift
The
Debtors
P*on.
in
nver.
Spin-houfe
It
is
is
firft
the rooms
are
S ,i*H0USE '
FOREIGN PRISONS.
83'
Peters-
by twenty-three
the
windows
from the
fix feet
floor
the
and
The
Military
Hospital.
Holland
in
but
There
read.
I fhall
hofpital,
The
Neva.
wooden
palifades,
feet
which
in
in a ruinous ftate,
hanged himfelf in
it is
built
is
it.
At
little
lectures are
having been
left
diftance in a large
by twenty-one
in each of
The
teen fmall rooms opening into a clofe paflage, and very ofFenfive.
Marine
Hospital.
The Admiralty
airy,
on one
fide
into a gallery
Four of
thefe
in
one of them there were forty beds, each admitting only one patient.
this hofpital, in an area or garden enclofed by palifades, is a row of
fummer rooms for convalefcents, each a feparate building, feventy feet by
twenty-fix. They were clean and fweet, and ftrewed with the young fhoots of the fpruce
fir.
In the centre building there are rooms for warming water for bathing
as there
At the back of
feven
were
Bathing
By
House
Educa
tion.
On
a rifing
left to
ground
is
is
at
is
little
The
of commoners.
airy,
number of the
having large
galleries
round them
and adjoining
to the
buildings there are fpacious gardens and lawns, which extend to the banks of the river.
The
the children of
the
number of
number of the
hundred and
*by a fund
liberal
forty
but fince
this
nobility
year
this
eftablifhment
by her imperial
8
this,
till
is
two hundred
and
eftablifhed
it
on
and
all
De
Betjloi,
majejiy.
The
RUSSIA.
Sect. IV.
The
The
Peters-
House
They
of nobles with
each
fifty in
clafs,
in each clafs.
every third year on the 21ft of April, (the birth-day of the Emprefs)
of the
nobility,
in, to
fifty
In
children
charged.
Before they
them with
The
at
rife
rife
every morning, the windows of the rooms are thrown open to purify
frefh air.
firft
clafs (drefTed
in
and
feven in winter,
at
weather
coldeft
their
year, they
back
are
to the houfe,
allowed no
and from
by compulfion.
Twice
in
where
they
confifts
continue
till
to
After
noon,
to be entirely withheld
to
lefs
After
dinner
they
morning,
At
it,
till
which
but care
leffons
they are
taken to render
is
this eftablifhment
dancing;
in
called
and
this
at
is
at
laft,
clafs,
in order to cure
them
in
foups,
this
which
at firft
alfo
to
return
viz.
till
nine
in
allowed for
eleven
is
at
comes
receive
the clafTes,
all
than water.
week they
the
of them
fewing, &c.
knitting,
in
common
of education
a part
each
year,
glafs
other drink
all
this
firft
and a
After
During
nine.
till
fummer.
in
fix
at
the
to
garden,
and
four,
at
have a repaft
a loaf
Here they
in winter of dried
confequence of
this
fo
much
in
the
air,
known
and become capable of bearing the fevertft weather of the climate without
receiving
any harm, their clothing being only a fhort wadded cloak, wh.ilft others
are loaded
with
furs.
The Jecond
to apply
more
clafs (dreffed in
blue) enter
it
&c.
The
burg
of
^iosf"
FOREIGN PRISONS.
9c
The
Peters-
House
*"
aftin
Educ.
tion."
in
becaufe
in
grey) enter
farmer, and
the
fix
They
at
it
in winter
the g arden j) an hour fooner than the children in the firft and fecond claffes;
more time is wanted for inftructing and improving them. They are now
taught (befides drawing, dancing, turning *, needle- work, &c.) vocal and inffcrumental
mufic.
They are allowed a ball and concert every week; and a tafte for books is
infpired,
felect
paffages
from the
beft
authors.
The
it
management of
The
and
in politenefs,
latter, is
The
is
as
the
humbler
for
on
children
degree of health.
this
Of
foundation
fifty-one
enjoy,
as
mitted in 1767, and fifty-two in 1770, none had died in 178 i; and of
ted at different
times,
and feventy
in 1767,
and
claffes
walks of
commoners, only
finer
initiated
by wearing a
They
of age.
&c. and
operas to
little
a family,
in
178
1.
Of
fixty
in
it
children
died,
is
in
178
alfo
1.
fifty
ad-
admit-
fifty
of commoners admitted
But of
fixty
admitted
in
part of the buildings which had been juft erected, and therefore was not fufficiently
dry.
This account
owe
Crok&1ADT
At Cronstadt
'
were lodged
in
(or
feveral
a hundred foldiers,
two,
who were
fick
who
:
Crownstade)
the principal
rooms enclofed by
attend
them while
palifades,
at
work.
removing the
ftation
for fhipping,
and guarded by an
the
flaves
officer
with
ballaft flung
They
had healthy countenances, and were robuft and ftrong, though their diet feemed fcanty.
The
* I
cay
following
was obliged
vifit tc
is
their
To
each for
diet,
leventy-
to
me on
'Mi houfe.
two
RUSSIA.
SCT. IV.
a half (about
and
a pair
fhirts
cloth coat, waiftcoat and breeches} woollen hat and fur cap,
CronsrADT
cangees.
Fuel
alfo
is
allowed by
government f
in
The number of flaves, malefactors and debtors is in general about two hundred,
November 178 1, their number was only one hundred and fifty-one, viz. flaves
mifdemeanors on
is
to be
Admiral
for a
new
many
fpacious rooms,
all
Two
and on
their beds
they belonged.
little
him
diftance
from
at the
&c.
diet,
in
it
fifty-five
common
in Ruffia,
as the cleanlinefs
alfo a
room
Four of
for a
or ten beds in
are
will
at
The
one, which
Greig.
In the Hqfpital
At
in-
their eftates,
but
many.
as well
of the inhabitants
Auguft 22, 1781, the number of patients in this hofpital was five hundred and fifteen.
Thofe attended by furgeons were feparated from the reft, and the appearance of all of
them lhewed plain proofs of the care and attention paid them. An officer vifits the
hofpital every day,
* The French prifoners in England have been defirous of having their allowance in flour,
that they might
make their own bread, as the Ruflian flaves do, who alfo, both here and at the fortrefs, make for themfelves
a fermented liquor called quas, two barrels of which I faw in the rooms.
t The expence
copecks
for clothes,
namely, for
I
owe
this
and fifty-two
Greig.
X ttPMofoph;cairranfa{2ions,Yo\.LX\flll.
1^78.
At
Hospital.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
At Wyschnei Wolotschok
the prifon
pubhc works,
is
Here were
fixteen prifoners
of wood,
anct
employed on the
but one, in irons; two were loaded with irons on their legs, and
all
new
is
prifon,
prifoners in
Tver
The rooms
were fo offenfive,
gentleman did not choofe to look into more than one of them.
that a medical
but
and likewife
it,
for
others,
mentioned,
has been
as
on charitable
fubfift
It
The
reported.
contri-
butions.
The
great Prifon at
Moscow,
Kalufka OJlrog
is
in the
in
Near
fuburbs*.
In the
room
firfl
this
room
rooms
At
rooms
fix
The main
forty -four.
The
is
and
prifon,
It
is
on the outfide
is
feet
entrance from the court juft mentioned leads into a walk (twenty-four feet wide),
on one
fide
of which there are three other courts, and four on the oppofite fide of
In thefe courts there are a number of wooden houfes confiding
different dimenfions.
every
room having
women,
in
which were
is
There
was feventy-four.
ten,
read.
is
in
The
irons.
in the courts
appropriated to.
who was,
and
always locked up
it,
of prifoners in September
diftinct
but none
walk
barrack-bedfteads or fbelves in
178
it
for confinement.
his
flaves.
One
in the
centinel flood at each corner of this prifon, one at the centre of the front, three
at the entrance.
is
or but for the fale of quas-f, apples and bread; and on the outfide of the door
many
contributions
t Quas
ufed
ir.ftead
The
am
obliged to Mr. Dichinfon for a drawing of this prifon, and of the botanic magazine.
of hops.
of the Ruffians,
is
a fort
prifoners here,
who
are
condemned
LXVIII.
departure
to the mines in Siberia, three days before their
them on
is-
1778.
go
being
RUSSIA.
Sect. IV.
At
the
prifoners,
New government in
of whom fourteen
a large
9.3
Moscow,
were women.
In a room. up
ftairs I
law eight
criminals with irons round their necks, chained with a heavy chain to a log.
In each,
Debtors
Prison
ever entered.
The
from
Military prifon
is
fituated in
a fingleroom, into
is
prifoners,
is
It
this city.
feet
tier
by
twenty-fix,
wooden
The
palifades,
finding fo large
at
felt
a nunber
as
Prison *
feet high.
It
wife
Military
thirty
wonder
the
in
fifty-five
ward appropriated to
On
whua were
confined
nine officers,
beds.
weeding
in
in a prifon confifting
only of
Prisons,
>
about noon, and are allowed three copecks woia Q f bread in a day
held from them by way of punifhment.
One of my
all at
At
women
offenders,
in
js
wkh _
in
h e barcerry hedges
in
weeding.
were -employed
jaU
vifits
for petty
but
is
room which
men 4
were
fi
.
work
js
ufed as a pr ;ron
ve women<
j
The former
R u ffian
day.
Here
is
a palace unoccupied,
in 1772, confifting
rooms, of a proper
.
as a
On
going over
it,
Lazaret in the
time of the plague
a
court,j
could not
ie corr ] dors
but^^
0r pafiages
wag we jj
riyer
a(j a p ed
an(j
fize,
The
RETT -
FOREIGN PRISONS.
9+
The
Mimt*ry
Hospital,
ground near a
in
On
river.
rooms
thefe
there
are
At
&c.
thecary,
patients,
Adjoining
little
but
from the
military prifon.
At
cleaner.
purified
more than
it
floor
in
Over
which lectures
for lunatics,
are
confifling
more elevated
vifit
fpot,
there
is
this
me w^n
company, and
his
found
the
all
/
building conftrucled of w>od, for drying herbs, plants,
is
there.
It is
and
riling
rooms;
flung open fome of the windows in one large ward, and this
firft
firft
*.
In the garden
floor,
my
at
them much
ftrewed
Botanic
IdAGAZ
In one part of
patients
feveral
alio
wooden building
is
room
on
fituatecl
(fifteen feet
There
a keeper.
finely
ar-e
of twelve rooms
is
or feven
fix
in
wh'h were
in
in
on the ground-
The
cutting roots.
many double
&c.
ever faw
cafes, or drawers,
(the upper, half as large as the under ones' painted green, with the names of the
and
in
were open.
On
v*"
e dry,
were
as
of the
firft
gathered.
of herbs drying on
full
a balcony
The
poles;
com-erfing with the phyfiLian, conce /n g t,ie treatment of the fick when the plague was at Mofcow
urs in the gaol-fever, viz. bark and good broths, with as
" it was nearly the fame
jn 1772, he faid,
rifons of that lar e cit : but to his hrprize, after vifiting them
S
y
with what he mould fee in the feve/P
0 ( for tne late em prefs then fufFered none to be put to death)
all, und finding them full of male/
fever
"
>
his
among 6m >
return'
St *
nor learn that an X acute diftemper peculiar to jails had ever been
p eterfburg, he made the fame inquiry there, and with the fame
refult."
1 * und
and
edit.
ilill is
1780, vol.
II. p.
34./
as
were
^ nat crue
fever
no
mode of confinement
fy
m pK>ms
in
many of our
fee in
common
and
gaoler,
Mofcow, or
and
in any part
of Ruflia.
Paulowjki
Moscow
RUSSIA.
Sect. IV.
Paulowjki hofpital
trance
is
by
is
on an
fituated
fitting
of feven rooms
Here
is
a chapel
to which there
The
linen.
apothecary lives in
one
ftory
but a more
and the
it,
adjoining
There
are
in
which being
afcent
built
round an
is
buildings twelve
thefe
Thermometers
clean,
A feparate
rooms of
this
air
bed
and other
faid
was the proper temperature (10 degrees of Reaumur's fcale), all the windows being
fhut.
There are fmall ventilators in the windows; but they can be of little ufe unlefs
the windows are daily opened.
or pewter
tin
fame attention
was pleafed to
fee in every
cijlern,
to cleanlinefs
in
in cafe
all
of
our hofpitals,
water
fire,
tozvels
At
may
room of
thefe hofpitals
th'e
buildings.
Here were
feveral
inoculated patients
for
Here were
another court in which there are feveral rooms, tolerably clean, for old
is
invalids.
Their number was about eighty, and fome of them had ferved
as
I repeatedly vifited the great Foundling hofpital in this city at the particular defire
good general De
the
Betjloi
Peterfburg, which
may
my
Coxe's
readers to
The
of
air
Mr.
foundation of
the ground,
this
pamphlet
and Paultnvfei
of
hofpital
my
of
St
fubjet, I refer
this hofpital f.
of
level
obferved feveral apertures (twelve inches by feven) in the itonework, for caufing a circulation
under the floors. If apertures were alfo made in the floors, they would be conducive to the
health of
1
t The public is much obliged to Mr. Coxe, for the account he has given of his examination of the prifons
and hofpitals in his tour through the northern parts of Europe, and for the many valuable
remarks which he
has made, in a pamphlet entitled, Recount
of the Prifons and Hofpitals in Ruffia, Sweden, and Denmark. Printed
forr. Cadell.
1781.
The
jo oz,
tember
bread
Peter/burg and
at
coll eight
178.1 at
iofechy fecond-fort,
Mofcow, the
iIospiTAL
and fpacious.
this hofpital
hofpitals,
Paulowsm
belonging to
The
is
en-
a large garden.
is
a half*.
all
is juft
The
city.
director and
airy fpot
It is built
55
lb.
14 oz.
five
copecks
coll three
third fort,
copecks
fectnd
lb.
fort,
8
1
o.z.
lb.
copecks
POLAND,
Ca T HE*
INE
Ho PIT At.
'
I'OREIGN PRISON
96
Warsaw
In Warsaw,
Prisons,
eight
at the 'Town-houfey in
women, crowded
into three
Down
dungeons
on each
At
in irons.
feveral fteps
There was no
foldiers.
near the palace, in two rooms there were feven prifoners, five of
the prifon
them
by
S.
which
a day,
more than
a little
is
three half-
pence.
The entrance to another prifon was through a guard-room full of foldiers. In one
room (twenty feet by ten) were twenty-fix miferable objects, fome fick on the dirt floor.
In another room, not fo bad, there were four.
new
and
woman
for theft
city there
their allowance
women
were a few
labourers
who
in
in
man
it,
wood and
fawing
me
it
was
rebuilt in 1769.
flraw.
lefs
the public being at the fame time eafed of part of the expence of fupporting
them.
Zucthhus.
In
the fuburbs
is
many of
the
and
hours
reft at
working from
on
floors
fix
in
noon, was two grofche (3*d.) each per day, which went to the keeper for
by
afliftance.
them.
This gave
able an opinion of the police of this country, that I could feel no inclination to vifit
my
Hospital.
The
eight hundred
Jejus)
has this
Deo, Honor
feemed
Moil of
et Gloria.
There were
different
ages.
fsai-
all
SILESIA.
Sect. IV.
put them
into
lame time
at
the
in
bell,
97
Warsaw
HospiTAI
the cradle on an axis into the houfe, where the children are immediately taken care
of.
and
fexes.
at the
and ringing
refpecr. to
work
in different
girls,
At both
vifit,
Convent of
ways
neat,
all
my
vifits
needles,
at their
found an
their ages
fuitable to
working
attentive
and
numerous inhabitants
him.
In the fecond
The
to
city
convent in this
is
it
wards
the
in
and
made
affectionate fuperior
The
are
found uncleanly;
in this fraternity.
St.
miferable
objects,
St.
In the Hofpital of
in
many
of both fexes.
fick,
St.
It
is
all
refpe&s
ever faw *.
SILESIA.
In October
1781
informed me,
in
vifited
1689.
It
in
may be
criminals
none
in
irons.
there
Breslau
Prisons.
a piece
chained.
of timber on the
floor
with a ftaple in
alfo
are double
is
city
gates
no
I
wood
this is
fteps.
and oppofite
to the
guard-room, there
At
confifts of
which
to
it,
Their allowance
rooms
is
regular
affixe
of bread;
yet on
in
feet
is
a Prifon
and a half
in
which
diameter.
forts
which I
vifited.
One
FOREIGN PRISONS.
93
Breslau
Ptusolr
Spinnous*.
One
appropriated to
is
men and
women
the other to
in
pri-
who, by the Governor's order, are employed out of doors for feven or eight hours
every day.
Their allowance is, two pounds of bread a day, befides fire and candle.
f ners >
In the Spin-houfe, fituated near the river which runs through the town, there were
week
and
their
During
year.
The former
thirty-fix
the
reft
They
longing to
this
.that
is,
is
are
employed
in fpinning
the afternoon.
fix in
In
from
fix to
the poor fitting on benches in the lower part of the chapel, and the prifoners in the
galleries.
CoNvgNT*
The
friars
themfelves
friars
for
ferving the fick with their dinners between ten and eleven.
dine at eleven.
went again
Patients
every year a
lift
at four,
to fupper.
thefe
is
twenty-five feet and a half wide, and the beds about three feet afunder.
it is
numbers were
fix
hundred and
vifited
number
fifty-nine,
this
convent
and the
friars
publifh
In 1776, the
In
1780,
and fixty-one.
GERMANY.
Berlin
Pri'son.
AT
Berlin,
ground-floor, and
down
dungeons
thefe
rooms
rooms on the
by
(thirteen feet
nine feet four inches) were numbered, and had barracks and ftoves, one ftove for
The dungeons are for the more atrocious criminals, of whom I faw
who were chained to ftaples in the wall. In 1778 the number of
was eighteen men and thirteen women; and in 1781 it was fifty-eight of
two rooms.
feveral
in
prifoners
irons,
both fexes.
Two
a dayeach.
This allowance
debtor
is fet at
prifoners,
men
the
of
liberty.
when
their
thefe
were debtors;
is
The allowance
procefs
is
to
finilhed,
women
for
whofe allowance
in
criminals
is
if
is
go into
fummer, and
half.
The
court;
the
are permitted to
the
and four
three in winter
the day,
in
from two to
7
three.
The
prifoner,
at
his
GERMANY.
Sect. IV.
pays the gaoler a grofche a day, for the time he was confined hefore
his
difcharge,
his
procefs was
be finifhed
9?
finifhed, unlefs
in three
months
and
if it is
The
procefs ought to
is
Here
who
a head-keeper,
is
Berlin
prison,
is
a furgeon whofe
an under-gaoler whofe rooms look towards the prifon windows
a chaplain
falary is fifty crowns (ecus) a year, befides the pay for his medicines
;
and a
fecretary
falary
who keeps
(greffier)
committed the
religion
place
entered
are
following particulars
the
was
the books,
magiftrate
of nativity
ten columns.
in
whom
by
One
the prifoner
of confinement
of the judges
head keeper's
was committed
he
condition caufe
prifoners.
The
&x.
papers,
fifteen
is
time
obliged
is
his
to
of difcharge
the
vifk
prifon
once a week.
in a
to
that
the court
into
confederates
their procefs
till
may
not be together.
Thefe
of the prifon.
There
no
is
it
One
example
this
my
all
Germany of
in
them
( Haus-Fbightey),
in the Pruffian
in
prifon *.
the other
the
Here
much fever er
punifhment.
and over
into a court, to
are
la
ftoves
back
at the
In the Court-prifon
the fentences, of
are permitted
torture-room in
whom
room, none of
finifhed (as
is
tions, with
is
for debtors
Creditors
allow each debtor two grofche a day, and one for firing, befides paying one to the
gaoler.
Here were
Allowance
thirty-fix prifoners in
to criminals
is
178
one weighed
fifty,
by fmugglers
fire
in
all
the
Copenhagen
at
p. 76.),
ftoves,
though early
On my
cells.
in
had not
O&ober.
fire
On my
allowed them in
exiji in
obferving the
my
country
winter?"
The
Court
Prison.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
100
Berlin
Maison
DE
Travail.
The
1758
Maifon de travail,
the front
The number
hundred and
a fpacious building in
is
is
the fuburbs
of inhabitants in
was ere&ed
it
hundred and
fixty.
in
It
four
fifty,
Beggars, idle perfons, and petty offenders of both fexes are fent to
Every time
to the
this houfe.
Thofe
and proper care and attention paid
was there, I was pleafingly {truck with the
are
cleanly appearance of
inhabitants.
the
all
The
and
fex
and
Here
work-rooms.
light to the
alfo
was prefent
minutes
at
all
were
feated
The
and neatnefs,
galleries,
is
after ringing
eighteen to
table, joined
after
all
a bell, in ten
each
in
And
aH
after
all
at
filled
Four
table.
at dinner,
for each
the hours,
hymn,
then fung an
which,
one
fpacious:
hour
at dinner-time
little
two
a chapel with
is
each room.
in
gives frefhnefs
this
morning prayers,
and
for
breakfafl.
at
The
which
In
1781
there
were
poor.
Both
claffes
poor
the
firjl
tafk
is
criminals.
it.
allotted to
of the
eighty-fix
two
into
latter
When
all
Sunday, peafe
are
Their weekly
do more, they
Wednefday, barley
old rafp or
is
tafted
the
who
they are fick, they are fent to the great hofpital ; where the
them, and
is,
claries,
clafs,
twelve pieces
room
all
paid to
work-houfe
all
at
Monday and
Thurfday, peafe.
Amfterdam.
confined in
for
Friday, beans
it,
It
is
exceedingly
as prevents every
ground
the barley-foup, the bread and die beer, which were wholefome and good, and they had'
of
GERMANY.
Sect. IV.
The
of complaint.
from beggars
were
there
Orphan-boufe
the
In
and good
ftrict
city
*.
boys
forty-fix
and
forty-one
girls,
healthy
all
are at fchool
There
two
are
to eleven,
my
there
Copenhagen
which
and three to
which
infirmaries in
they work.
fix,
This houfe
Jick child.
though the employments of the children,
to
cutaneous diforders,
hundred and
five criminals.
Some few
criminals were
They had
no women
for
and
knitting,
Sundays, in
this
and
Here
are
in
fmall
for
They have
offences.
(^\h.)
meat
only
on.
filk-worms, on which
The
fpinning.
men, committed
thefe were
them were
little
corretlion,
In the Houfe of
fpinning,
be
to
in it in 1778,
were rafping logwood ;
latter
but moft of
Fortrefs or caftle,
confined
a collar of iron.
were
of the
there feems
The
prifons.
is
Neither
this,
chapel.
The apartIn 1 78 1, there were feventy men and one hundred and ten women.
ments of the latter were neat and clean. Their dinner was good foup made of
but the bread was not fo good as at the work-houfe at Berlin ; the daily
barley
:
few fome-
made between
the prifoners-, and fuch as are reckoned infamous, are confined in a room by themI made the fame inquiry of the keeper here that I had
made in fimilar
felves.
times
their tafk,
for
it.
dittinction
is
houfes,
The fame
general,
That the
police
is
all
affize
of rye bread
for the
of the fecond
fort,
by the
fine
fame money.
31b. 7 oz
bread, than
coarfe,
which
Hene
lafi:
alio
fort,
The
In
ftandard.
by the
or
juft
fineft
June
the
1778,
was
Silefia,
to
lb.
i^oz;
gain mere
make
thi.s
is
meat
is
fixed and.pnblifiied.
At
FOREIGN PRISONS.
102
MagdeBURC"
Magdeburg
At
work on the
is
the days they work, they have alfo in money, half a grofche, about three farthings.
The number
was only fifty-one, for many had been taken to recruit the army.
that the
men
women
If
imagine
The
in
nor are
had iron
all
collars,
unhealthy.
were
their
to
alter
a fpacious
by
five
The
feet.
prifon
fpinning.
collar,
by way of punifhment
Another was
He
told
me
twenty-one pounds,
T he men
Some of them
for the women
prifon.
turns.
Among
faw four fick, and yet they had their irons on.
befides
is
and
five
employment was
at
what
Lukau,
as at
diftinct building
at
fome
them unhealthy and miferable objects*.
in a large
Dresden.
their apartments
all
were treading
was a
the houfe of
in
attended.
few prifoners
Lukau.
rafped
but
to
mill
it
for
thofe
making an
that
efcape,
fitting,
that the
changed
to the other
it
leg without
paying a fmith.
Here
are
two other
The
prifons.
each
about ten feet fquare, with one window, and an aperture over the door, and barrackThere were ten prifoners, five of each fex. Three of the men were rafpbedfteads.
ing logwood in a room down twenty fteps;
labourers in building a
chapel.
The
other prifon
twenty-fix prifoners
for
;
the
moft of
bailliage,
whom
contains
nineteen
chambers,
The
The
criminals allowance
which were
fome on both)
in
foot,
is
its
farthings) each f.
There
*
They
feet
fix
who was
f
the
On
are not
all
high, and
fix
paying
liberty
confined to a {"mail quantity of bread and water, in cells of four feet fquare and
feventy-eight pounds of iron, as the ingenious and intrepid Trend,
loaded with
to
my
obferve,
that
bailiff for
permitting
mentioned
me
alfo
to fee
the
feverity of
chaining
women,
GERMANY.
Sect. IV.
in the
two prifons
The men
Prague.
at
at the
Prague.
Maifon de Force, work out, with a guard, fawing wood, &c. for twelve creutzers a day *,
which
is lefs
common wages
than the
The
of labourers.
reft is
Many
with chains to one or both legs, according to the different terms of their confinement.
At Vienna,
in
The
hofpitals.
Vienna*
The
Ld Maifon
Bourreau,
de
is
finking reprefentation of the crucifixion of our Saviour, and the two thieves on
In this prifon are
Calvary.
Here,
But
had found
in
fpots,
This
of that diforder.
ill
him
In the Houfe of
effefis
bread and
his
pulfe,
thought
He
was
is
fteps,
not
He was loaded
the wall:
to
mount
horrid dungeons.
inquired whether they had any putrid fever, and was anfvvered in
ufual, I
as
the negative.
many
me,
it^
of dungeons.
correction,
House
forty
employed
money
in
and took
putting the
name on
the
work of each
much
as
as they
could
fpin
that
in
large
The
that
prifoner,
prifoners
week-f.
in, and:
down
and
fetting
faw
At dinner-time,
Corrbc.
tion.
the
feveral
thought proper.
The
which
prifon was
it
is
women, which
them
for
too
applied
is
very
fecurity,
return, I gave
my
without which,
little
.{;.
much crowded,
In feveral
uncommon
being
often
in
other countries.
obliged
to
be
To
abfent
this
in
he anfwered, that
fetching
prifoners
"
the
In one
gaoler chained
In
opinion that the attention to a prifon ought to be the -whole employment of a gaoler,,
In the holydays,
when
the prifoners are not permitted to work, each has an allowance of four, or
five creutzers.
One
or two of the
women were
The mijtrefs
flie
night and
to
Healing
prevent fuch
room,
FOREIGN PRISONS.
Vienna
House
Correc-
'
cloth,
manufa&ured
In the chapel
Here, and
in
Prague, and
at
is
fome other
and
Two more
T10fs
in the
in
houfe for
a proper feparation of
parts
Too
little
for
fale.
iron-grate
doors, which do not prevent the circulation of air, fo falutary and neceffary in
of confinement.
tailors,
houfes
to the
Though
and
the aged,
commendation the
muff acknowledge,
infirm
of this
prifons
city,
which do honour
to
yet
indigent,
and efpecially to
The
Almshouse.
fpacious building
and
fix
The
fifty-three.
invalids.
is
inhabitants
are near
feet
Many
eighty
of age.
years
They were
cheerfully
fpinning,
front of this
eleven
including
It
The
the fides
three thoufand,
hundred
military
the
Here
cleanlinefs.
whatever
becaufe
they
Hospitals.
have
friars
remove
up
their
Charite
patients
The
fick
in
recover.
their
flairs,
I left
de
alfo
engaged
in the
improvement of
children,
hundred and thirty-nine beds, and two hundred and forty-one in eight
The extent of the front is fix hundred and fixty-two feet.
In the great alms-houfe, and in feveral prifons and other public buildings, the
rooms are all arched with ftone or brick, to prevent danger and confufion in cafe
of fire. In feveral prifons and hofpitals, where I have found the ftaircafes and floors
were
five
rooms
for girls.
wood,
my mind
Before
leave
this
city,
would
juft
is
put
up on
the gates f.
At
It
the general
is
a year.
rule in
this
correction, to ivhite-<usajb
practice, as
we have
them once
or
twice
f The
The fintfi
bills
my
mentioned in them.
was (by
The
fecond fort
GERMANY.
Sect. IV.
Guatz
At
Vienna.
thofe
coverlets,
that
correction,
had feen
in a fimilar
the
Gratz.
houfe
fee that
word
favour of
in
at
Laubach
cannot fay a
Laubach.
clofe offenfive
rooms, each
Trieste.
in Carniola, as
it.
The
befpoke their own mifery, and the negligence of the magistrates and keepers.
But
in the Caftle
They were
confined for three, five, feven, or fourteen years and upwards; and were
harbour, &c.
in the
lighter,
my chamber window
at
work
in a large
*.
by fix foldiers. They did not work harder, than other labourers would in the fame
employment. Their hours for work were from five in the morning till between five
and fix in the afternoon but they had two (from eleven to one) allowed them for
They appeared healthy,
reft, and half an hour more fometime before they left work.
;
They were
Their
was two pounds and a half of bread and four farthings a day.
over, and faw
their
ftrift
difcipline
diftin-
allowance
They were
caftle.
under
them receive
common
though
had two
Ihirts,
two pair of ftockings, &c. and they lay in good beds with coverlets (fee page 33% in
large airy rooms having oppofite windows, and not, like many convicts, in clofe dirty
dungeons, under the
fix
The bakers
fortifications.
at
Inferior
forts
made of
fide
for frauds
lb.
by the
of the Danube,
is
rye
ox.
this
the
grofche, or feven
the water, at one end of which the delinquent, being fattened in his bafket,
At Drefden,
were cheaper.
is
is
immerfed.
continued, and
The
inflicl:ed
bakers
on delin-
Two
wheels were fixed in the lighter, one of them to draw back the fcoop or bucket, and the other
managed by
men
treading in
it)
to raife the mud, which was then emptied into another lighter
Three or four times a day, a foldier (with a bayonet fixed on his
who went
to fetch a tub
By
fail
was
ITALY.
Castle.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
io6
entered Italy
from a
in
Y.
careful attention
Venice.
At Venice,
the chief
of them confined in
There
rare.
v/as
had
prifoners
prifon
is
and
it
one of the
is
On
irons.
found
it
None
of the
fourteen ounces..
who had been confined many years in dark cells, whether they Ihould
?
They all anfwered in the affirmative fo great a bleffing is light
The chapel is for the condemned, who continue there a night and a day
afked fome
and
air
before execution.
Here
is
the relief of prifoners both civil and criminal, and rules are publifhed for the direction
of the
officers
Thefe
who have
There
the prifon.
the
management of
the
it,
of
whom
infirmaries.
procured from the ducal printer, with the regulations for the galleys and pri-
many
fons, for
One of
years pafl.
twenty-feven Haves,
This was
clean.
flaves
were
Ihore,
who
Here, and
in chains of
I
Ihore, in
which were dirty and crowded, theI faw a Have dead on the-
as he could
have no hope of an
Padva,
of
Padua
fit
and Ferrara.
cities,
none
I
was.
informed that not one had fubmitted to the ignominy thefe ten years -f-.
*
The rooms
the heat of
f This
at a
is
fummer almoft
on the
in.
intolerable.
fit
upon
it
for if they
who
At
ITALY.
Sect. IV.
At Bologna
one of which
after four
who
for debtors,
is
are alimented
at
a,
Bologna.
day
each.
The
Hofpital,
S.Maria de
me
Vita, afforded
leaft
great pleafure.
The wards
offcniive.
Hospital.
men and
of the
women were of the fame fize, each containing thirty-eight beds, nineteen on each
The bedfteads were of iron, and the coverlets were white and clean. Each
fide.
ward had fourteen windows, feven on a fide, and all had curtains. They had foldThe wards of this
and on the outfide^ wire lattices.
ing wooden cafements
;
fhelf,
of
all
two inches
feet
On
flip
and
the
the wards, for the convenience of opening and fhutting the windows, was
a gallery eighteen feet above the floor, and two feet broad, with an iron
The
rail
two
feet
doors to the wards were iron grates, five feet five inches
wide.
In
prifons *.
one flrong rooms. None of the prifoners were in irons. They had mattreffes to
Their bread was good. In the torture chamber, there was a machine for
on.
decollation, which prevents that repetition of the flroke which too often happens when
lie
the axe
is
ufed.
The opening
to the court.
of the
are
many
feet
fquare.
The women,
is
Oportet mifereri,
The
are
men
up
you come
ought to be companionate.)
fmall branches
flairs,
In one
is
to
lie
on.
about forty-three
(We
which
new infirmary
to pafs before
is
fpacious rooms, in
The
it,
firft
men and
room were
fourteen
women.
who
paid for
eight,
were in irons.
The
feet
and a half
clofe.
Dr. rargiom,
beneficial
who had an order from his Royal Highnefs to infpeft the hofpitals,
and report what
improvements might be made in them, accompanied me in vifmng
thefe prifons.
P2
The
Flore nc*
FOREIGN PRISONS.
iog
The
Florence
Hospitals.
&
great Hofpital of
fifty. four
feet
clofe
They have feparate wards for wounds and fractures. The women are attended by the
nuns, who have a paffagc under ground from the oppofite convent.
Here are twenty
ftudents, who lodge and board in the houfe for feven years, attend the {ick, ferve thevictuals, &c *. and are diftinguilhed by a long cloak.
But the Hofpital which
ward
clean
is
moll frequently
by a
vifited,
There were
wide.
varnifJxd boards,
in
This
Atone end
is
The
di Dio.
afcent
and
lofty
on
Neither the
The
brick.
rooms with
fides
fingle
nor floors of
this,
priefts 4
The
Giovan
hofpitals of Italy,
tarras or
feet
5.
fteps.
it
on iron bedfteads.
was
of thirty ftone
flight
them honour.
for the reception
of recovering patients,
here four days, and by the change of air and diet their health
is
They continue
confirmed before
Almshouse.
Here
would
juft
It
The wards
more.
who
Leghorn.
advanced age.
attend
on
and
an
Ahns-houf3, S.
Bcnifazio,
for
Leghorn
mention
fatisfied
with
come
this,
in
\ In
at
the expence of
Galleys
better,
as the
old keeper.
The numerous
patients
my
my
acknowledgments to
Sir Horace
Grand
Mann our
Duh
afliftance.
this Fortrefs,
fait
prifoners:
Grand Duke's
nuns,
in. 17.61..
lain on jhore.
of.
twenty.
this
feemed entirely
up
The
perfons
fitting
Fortress.
infirm
In the Prifon at
at large,
mention
works
at
and thirty-two
flaves
at Pifa,
were eighty-five
and
at the
only
ITALY.
Sect. IV.
only for the molt atrocious crimes. Each prifoner had a ring round one leg;
but when they go out to work, a chain is rivetted to two prifoners. Here were
feven pontons to clear the harbour ; but the weather, when I was there, being
their
and
mips
men
to
The
I
their
*.
me
all
the
from which
rules,
their falary
to the
it
They
it
in the proper
and when required, they muft give an.-exact account of all proceedings
They make a report of the refractory to government, that they
againft the prifoners.
may be punilhed in proportion to their offences, with feverer confinement, irons, and
book
The
baftinadoes.
behaved
have
zjlritl
have
in,
on
who
prifoners,
are to exhort
He
be drafted
prifoners,
all
when they
in the
beftis.
to
brought
are
their feet*
The
prifoners
condemned
are
to labour, for
to
the nature
They
of their
are
crimes
feven years,
and
are chiefly
morning, under
guard
of foldiers, and are chained two and two together, with a chain of about eighteen
An
pounds weight.
in.
the afternoon
hour's relaxation
and
is
at
fun-fet,
after
to prevent their
fix crazzies,
according
is
if
crazzies
are paid
hlghnefs,.
made two
When
reft.
and a report
irregularities
but
to the
thirds of flour,
fait
and
oil.
a loaf
is
-f-,
On
and
each
of the two Eajier holydays they are allowed a pound of meat, and three ounces of
rice.
I wifti fome future traveller would give us plans of this Lazaretto, and that at
places, as they
cloth,
buildings.
I preferred
it
to that
which
met with
at
my lodgings,
and-
Lichojh
R
FOREIGN PRISONS.
no
Leghorn
Portress.
and a red cap; every year a pair of (hoes; and every fix months a fhirt, and a pair
of drawers or breeches. Their drawers are fhifted once a month, their fhirts every
For lodging, they have a mattrefs filled with ftraw, and a coverlet
week.
the
ftraw
is
If
fun-fet, he muft wear a ring, and a chain of eighteen pounds weight ; and
he muft pay half his future earnings, till it amounts to a zechin, to thofe that appre-
before
hended him
*.
If they
who
commences
are
condemned
and
for five
for repeated
years, defert,
when
more
retaken,
feverely
The
chaplain muft
injlruB.
the prifoners.
mutton,
all
rice, fine
On
examine
and
night-caps,
their victuals
and foup, to
clothes.
And
turnkey muft
A zechin
is
704
condemned
210
to the galleys,
executed,
17
branded.
This punifhment of branding was abolifhed by the grand-duke, Leopold. In the four years preceding 1769,
there was no capital punifhment.
Debtors.
3+
1770
IOI
16
1771
244
264
89
I 1
1772
292
io s
IO
1773
"S
O
O
774
396
412
109
21
1775
508
150
12
1776
384
I2 9
16
O
O
*777
96
176
142
7
6
O
O
126
142
Total
A Bruxelles,
is
Executed
71
1778
above
Sent to the
Galleys.
264
The
Offenders.
1769
3036
Grand Due
de To/cane
&c.
779.
At
ITALY.
Sect. IV
At the
great prifon at
Rome,
New
called the
in
back of which runs
Prifon *, at the
this infcription
is
Prison
CLEMENTINE
SECURIORI AC MELIORI REORUM CUSTODI/E
JUSTITI/E ET
NOVUM CARCEREM
X. PONT. MAX*
POSUIT
INNOCENTIUS
ANNO DOMINI
MDCLV.
To
and Clemency,
Jnjlice
For
and
Pope Innocent X.
better cvflody
eretled this
of criminals,
New
Prifon
Lord
1655.
On
the ground-floor; on one fide are the flaves for the galleys at Civita-vecchiar
on the other
fide
is
There
whom
apartments, five of
were
in
more
rooms
which
air
are clofe
and
large.
at
and
offenfive,
Thefe rooms
light.
There were
city.
fixty-
eight prifoners.
for
countenances;
fickly
prifoners, in
who
are
two
and one
infirmaries:
firft
time
ward,
airy
feventy-three
whole prifon
feet
two
is
inches
inches
this I
flairs
a chamber for
feet
is
On
laft
by twenty-three,
one
for boys,
with
Thefe
The
afcent
mention, as generally,
in
fire.
for
The
ftory,
is
three inches
is
beds,
feventeen
ten patients
a fpacious
three
by two
wide
flights
of
feet
The
the fide.
to each
were
This infirmary
* The elegance
one
priejls,
cutaneous diforders.
the
is
is a chamber
for diftracledThere are feveral chambers with
for which each pays one paule and a.
There
who have
four patients.
the
a night.
for prifoners
but'
pale
Here
irons.
objects.
Rome
built)
There
it.
is
FOREIGN PRISONS.
Hi
Rome
r.i
son St
a table
of regulations
in
prifon,
this
ordering the exact times, of opening the prifon and the court, of faying mafs daily,
The
evening.
wifh
every morning
could fay
is
let
down
and
is
On
vifit
the
in
the
illnefs,
after
ordered to
of extraordinary
cafe
in
to
and rope
a pulley
one of thefe rooms, have the privilege of afking alms of the pafTengers.
were
five debtors in
prifon
not offenllve.
is
There
is
and two
for,
There
This
rooms.
The
San
\ N"G e
lo.
The rooms
appropri-
p ur pofe vvere all empty, except one, in which was a bijhop, who had been
Here were alfo eighteen conconfined upwards* of twenty years, and was diflracled.
They feemed healthy
dannati who work in the fortrefs, and had each a light chain.
atecj tQ t k at
and
well.
prifon, for
I
it is
little
On
St. Peter's.
Over
year
that
it
in the
tfie
one
fide
the gate
of the inquifition.
It
is
an infeription importing
filent
hours about
the great
fituated
"
569."
till
my
raife fufpicion.
* There
is
an account of this
in Italy, vol. I. /.
476, third
* When
queflions.
" unconcerned
mode of punifhment
edit.
at
manner of execution
at
Rome
is
Rome, with
rabble,
in
of amufement
how can
difplay,
ufe'ful
"
as a fource
'*
'
"
thefe
fuch exhibitions
make any
If there
is
In
ITALY.
Sect. IV.
many of
Giovanni di Fiorentini: as
inftitution
foner
is
called
This
church of
S.
is
confifts
It
1450.
them
Rome.
in
After a pri-
condemned, one or two of them come to him the midnight before his execution,
They, with the
till his death.
is
confefTor, exhort
his choice
him hanging
they leave
cuts
the evening
till
him
orders
appropriated to malefactors.
when
the year
church
is
fides, is a
this
to be
opened
is
makes one
women, and
fame
dead,
is
fide
in
one of the
drefs in
in
Adjoining to an elegant
to the public.
the prifoner
burying-place
a chapel, which
When
fide porticos
the
men
The
are buried.
The
Hojpital of S. Michele
is
a large
It confifts
and noble
The back
edifice.
front
is
near three
In the
apartments on three fides of one of the moft fpacious of thefe courts, are rooms for
various manufactures and arts, in which boys
When
and inftructed.
who
and barbers
in all
its
fome
branches.
for weavers
When
learning
educated
fum
them up
is
given to
is
a noble fountain,
fet
fixty
com-
have
Adjoining to another court are apartments for the aged and infirm,
all
Some were
and fome
and genius.
rooms and
a refectory.
in
which were
Here they
converted
find
wkh fome
of
Here
is
which are circular apertures for the interment of thofe that are executed.
infcribed,
to judge,
Another
San
MlCHEL1
FOREIGN PRISONS.
n4
Another part of the
Rome
MichLe.
hofpital
is
Over
th,e
door
is
this
infcription:
CLEMENS
XI.
PONT. MAX.
INSTITUENDISQUE
UT QUI INERTES OBERANT
INSTRUCTI REIPUBLICffi SERVIA NT.
AN. SAL. MDCCIV. PONT. IV.
Pope Clement
For the
Of profligate
'That they,
When
who when
inftrutted,
To
XL
and
correclion
inftruclion
youth
were
idle,
might be
injurious,
ufeful,
the State.
1704.
In the
of
room
all civil
is
expreffed.
is
PARUM EST
COERCERE IMPROBOS
POENA
NISI
PROBOS EFFICIAS
DISCIPLINA.
// is
To
of
little
reftrain
advantage
the
Bad
By Punijhment,
Unlefs
By
Here were
fifty boys
Discipline.
room an
infcription
hung
up,
SILENTIU
This room being
different
In
this hofpital
prefling, that
it
is
from any
may
a
M.
room
alfo for
women.
in
it
On
me by
the
the outfide
is
an infcription, ex-
licentioufnefs
and
There
ITALY.
Sect. IV.
There
Rome many
are in
ft*
in general
crowded,
-j^"*^
in this
tals
Here
a ftmreaje
is
up the
for carrying
has
on each
a rail
remarkable for
its
Every
fide.
ftep
is
eight inches wide, and the rife from one ftep to another
fteps are of brick, fet
It
is
Thefe
&
The Hofpital of S. Gio Laterano was alfo crowded and offenfive; and that of
Giacomo degV Incurabili was worfe * : but that called Benfratelli, that for the Florentines,
any offenfive
that of S. Maria della Confolazione, were clean, and perfectly free from
In this laft-mentioned hofpital, no patierts are received except fuch as have
fcents.
wounds or
fractures.
At
night,
hofpital,
in
we take our
leave of
may
Rome,
it
may be
hofpitals,
enter into this, and refide here three days, lodge in airy wards, dine in the refectory,
The
at
The
Civita-vecchfa.
flaves
condemned
to
them
are
confined for different terms, according to the nature of their crimes: but the fhorteft
time
is
who
For that,
are generally
the
term
zn iron glove.
firms have
they have no
leg,
which
* Indeed
is
and
if
life
leffened as the
end of
firft
loft,
arrival,
Perfons
Prifoners for
all a
life
is
but when
term approaches.
their
it
For
0^2
10
Civita-
VECCH1A '
FOREIGN PRISONS.
u6
Civita-
UCCHIA
former; but
condemnation, and then receive a frefh one for the fame time as the
firft was for life, the fame is renewed, and they receive from a
if the
of S. Michele
in
Rome
till
None
are fent
and fed
in fpinning,
The
pounds of bread
three
is
dayj and
make
two or three days, and they are allowed two pounds and a half of
At
beans.
Eafler, Chriflmas,
a pint of wine a
For
two
fliirts,
have once
in
two
rice to a galley.
and
and a half of woollen cloth to wrap round their legs inftead of ftockings.
Roman
At
my
being
Through
a felucca clofe to
baiocs,
about 3
'
at Civita-vecchia, three
waiftcoat,
a woollen
the time of
with their
oil to boil
and Carnival, they are allowed one pound of beef and half
pounds of
fifty-five
is
The
yearly
at
fifteen
computed
9-
in
each of the
galleys.
The
themfelves, being paid according to their abilities and the nature of their work.
fawing
in
pence halfpenny
and
canvafs
calico
and
in
fummer-time an hour
Here
clean.
is
At
&c.
For
Such
as
work
two
at the
the public
for dinner,
for breakfafl *.
on fhore
a fpacious hofpital
room
None were
was an
in irons.
All was
room was
particular
tion is
a contagious diforder.
The fame
it
in hofpitals
is
rooms
am
who
The
ITALY.
Sect. IV.
The principal
It contained,
when
five
was
Naples
is
La
Vicaria, under
Naples
RIi
NS '
117
*
who had
objects,
to a
accefs
In this court
air.
was a recefs, under arcades like thofe that were under the chapel at Newgate. Some
of the prifoners were employed in knitting, and others in making flioesj but mod of
them were entirely without employment. In fix chambers, which opened into a fpacious
hall,
many
were
in
in fingle beds,
j-
fifty
Of
women.
all
is
and
rooms com-
in fix dirty
allotted to the
execution.
The
There were
fixty,
The
Galleys
hundred and
fixty
flaves
in
In the
firft
them
were two
in the third
healthy.
About
feet
in the Jecond
in the arfenal
and other public works, they have an extraordinary allowance of near a penny a day.
After efcapes,
chaplain,
An
if
is
doubled.
Each
galley has
account
is
350,061,
this
1777, their
num*
The
city;
and
at Eafter
viz.
Males
170,574
Females 165,642
Of
this
number
Priefts
3303
Monks
Nuns
4231
63 1
f In
of Italy,
From
not find
in
little
but I
likely to prevail
but, I did
Galley*.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
In the Seraglio, or great Alms-houje *, there were about five hundred and
Naples
house"
Many
rooms.
prifoncrs
fifty
this great
building, with chains varying according to the terms of their confinement, and have
were lhoe-makers
.employment
at
work,
of the circulation of
galley-flaves
them and
number of
for beggars
fome rooms
the former in
that are
marine.
recovering.
their guards \.
The
will
air.
a great
is
The
and which have windows into a court, where they were digging a foundation
finifhed,
to
fome of
is
There
idle perfons.
effects
as in
f.
In thefe rooms
.the extra
It
One of
in this city.
patients
Great attention
are
is
thefe
rooms
is
very
ill
fick
and
fufficient quantity.
The
Hospitals.
great and crowded Hofpitals of S. Apoftoli and UAnnunziazione, have wards ap-
The
wounded perfons
chiefly
and
at
table
at
is
is
room
an altar and a
It
confifts
Near
victuals.
this
was inferibed a reference to the appofite words of Scripture, Matthew xxv. 35, 36.
||.
The
i c.
hundred
thirteen
feet,
and probably
it
will
be en-
larged.
f As no
employment of thefe
life,
flaves, the
he replied,
"
make
the
king
lately
made
a pre/cut
to the Maltefe.
nxibole
is
made an
hofpital (alluding in
an hofpital."
The frequency of affaults and afTaffinations in Italy is generally known. Many of the common people
feem to be ignorant or inienftble of the atrocioufnefs of the crime of murder. The criminals in prifon exprefs,
with feeming fatisfaftioB of mind, " that though they (tabbed they did not rob." If we confider that wards
i|
;u.d
filled
that
many
fanguinary
"
<
In
ITALY.
Sect. IV.
friars,
in all that I
119
order
this
there are no rooms over the fick wards, fo that they are as lofty as our churches
or chapels.
At Lucca,
now
Lucca-,
At Genoa,
befides a Prifon for debtors, and a Prifon for female criminals, there
of the prifoners
room
The
tolerably airy.
To
this prifon
formed
inftrutlions
is
Genoa
faw none
to
in irons.
rooms
by
the
their,
execution.
in
and
it,
contain excellent regulations, as will appear from the following account of a few of
them.
fhall
fix
afliftants
and
is
to be
refponfible, and liable to punifhment, if any of the afliftants mall be guilty of the leaft
The
is
advocate
fifcal
is
once a week,
and to inquire diligently how the prifoners are treated by the keeper and
in
to death, he
confolation
at
When any
The keeper
condemned
is
up
any
afliftants,
prifoner
is
is
always to
the unhappy.
He
is
to
alfo
The
fixed
at
lafl
of juftice^
order
is,
and
in the chancery,
apartments of the
in the
criminals."
In one of the Galleys juft returned from conveying fome noblemen to their country
feats, I
left
The
" That
draw
old and
the galleys at
of fuch orders,
is
on
foore-,
and
in
it
are
hung up
the regulations,
which
as the following:
for the
cruife.
confift chiefly
fhall
in
to determine
who
every month
lifts
of the crews, and of the fick in the infirmary, with an account of die time of their
admiflion, fhall be taken and kept, with the affiftance of the phyfician, chaplain, and
furgeon.
That
rice,.
&c.
all
&c That
allowed weekly to a galley, befides kettles of broth fiatedly given them in the three
winter
cheefe, oil,
and
Galleys
FOREIGN PRISONS.
12
Genoa
Galleys.
with
of wine.
half' a pint
^ meat) w ne
}
paftry,
That
That
midfhipmen
&c.
fhall take
The Turkifh
and for {having
The
feilles.
fummer
Hospitals.
flaves
had many
like thofe I
little
remember
three
is
pounds and
In the great Hofpital there were about three hundred men, and
it
and
it is
fix
hundred women.
leaft
for foundlings,
Here was
in
in winter.
crowded and
Mar-
at
two days
a half, for
There were
clofe
and dirty
with the
noijy
and
infane.
quiet, I
turbulent.
fituated
hofpital,
girls.
on an eminence within
There were
in
it
latter.
is
is
an
It is
Rome.
Over
room,
this infcription
Silentium et Qbedientia.
Milam
Pa I SONS.
At Milan,
of thefe rooms
is
Thefe
fome of
are
the
windows
which
is
by a
who
fufficient to
rooms
The
fpecial order.
general fize
fifteen.
The
entrance
is
life,
are confined.
which
They
before the turnkey opens the inner door, for fear thefe defperate criminals fhould
murder
In the Prifon for debtors, in this great trading city, there were only four perfons
confined for debt.
There
to the
life.
are'
Both
country.
The
moft atrocious,
work
La
condemned
either for a
term of
years, or for
In L'ArgaJiro there were three hundred and fifty-nine prifoners, healthy and ftrong.
A considerable
public walks
that purpofe
pavements, &c.
at
work
in public
(at
fix
men
But
in
attends
behind chained.
waggons
for
work fhoe-makers,
tailors,
fmiths,
wheel-
SU
MAY. 1929
FOREIGN PRISONS.
GERMANY.
From
which
Switzerland
Germany
returned to
my
in
in order to vifit
1778,
fome
prifons
Cities.
At Augsburg,
of
It confifts
many
the prifon
cachots
is
on the
lide of a
There
fuch
have
as
at the
hill,
are alfo
There
is
Augsburg
one for
The
condemned
are brought three days before their execution into two light rooms, which open into
Roman
minifter
The
catholic chapel
is
Roman catholic
The rooms were
thofe of the
Munich
or Munchen,
town-houfe, had in
down
in
it
fix
religion,
all
tzvo fides
of a fpacious court
for
there
two
are
one
clean,
promoting
for
Proteftants, with
circular form,
At
if
Hotife
fide for
where, however,
a femi-
a circulation of air.
prifons
for
prifoners *.
criminals.
One,
In a dark
in
the
damp dungeon
The
other,
Ld
Prifon de la Cour,
feven,
confided of about
In
this
room
fifteen
there
is
cells,
twelve
tabic
feet
by
covered with
floor,
Various
fome of which are ftained with blood, hang round the room.
for the windows are fhut clofe,
the criminals fuffer, the candles are lighted
engines of torture,
When
Even women
But
it
is
Two
view
modes of
-f~.
In
*
is a
Once a
year, viz. on All-faints day, any perfons are permitted to enter and fee the prifon.
cuftom fimilar to
f This room
quiftian,
this in
feems
tranllated
There
much
like
by Chandler,
II.
edit.
"
It
"
arched*
Mukice.
Munich.
O R E
G N
P R
O N
men and
The keeper
me
and frankincenfe
with charcoal
women
thirty
fome weaving
negligence and
a certain fign of
S.
inattention,
was agreeably relieved from the pain excited by thefe fcenes, with the view of the
two
Hofpitals
forty beds;
faw
was inferibed,
The
as in
prifon
chambers
are
at
Over
All
was
Italian hofpitals.
or
Regenjhurg,
in
is
town-houfe.
the
and
There
are
Many
of the
no dungeons, but
and the hang-
their fecretary,
man
affift.
At the back of
the houfe of corretlion
BURC.
wide.
patients
by the nuns
performed
bleeding
were about
feet
but
Nu ren-
fome
Ratisbon
airy,
In the former
Charite.
operation of
the
Ratisbon.
de
Sceurs
{till
where apparent.
every
and Les
of Les Freres
in
the orphan-houfe (in which were twenty boys and fifteen girls)
;
At Nurenbtjrg,
here
the prifon
is
The
There
down
This
The
is
is
ever faw.
the
magiftracy
the
efcape of
of this
his
city. The
gaoler
by terrifying them
prifoners,
In feveral of
German
the
trick
prevent
to
apprehenfions of falling
with the
gaols there
are
dungeons
for
thofe that are accufed of witchcraft, but they feem to have been long difufed
and
hope increafing
light
and good
fenfe will
entirely baniih
foon
the fears of
rooms
are three or
four
that the
hangings.
place
feemed
is
as
the
The
placed in
were fattened
candlefticks
The
them.-
inquifitor
to
the
and notary
wall;
fat
at
inferibed
a gingling
verfe,
which
I.
here infert, as
perhaps no
it
Over
GERMANY.
Sect. IV.
Over
Houfe of Correction
Nurenburg
at
this infcription
is
Nuren-
BURC.
Ho u s e
F
Mortalium dementia
n
LORRECtion.
Compefcitur dementia
The
above forty
they earn
hundred
in a
grind feven
Some men
prifoners.
and others,
work on
week
Some of
*.
the
Schwais
were employed in
making fpinning-wheels
the road.
four
different apartments,
in
grind
at
on cufhions.
in
filver lace
Some
each hand.
in
glafles
for
gold and
what
furplus of
or eighteen
The
grinding fpectacle-glafTes.
in
creutzers,
The men
themfelves.
for
employed
prifoners were
and
polifhing fteel
I
was informed
tafic
Such
prifoners as
from the
guifhed
by having a
reft,
chapel, and
laft in
infames,
and are
place appropriated to
particular
The
them
diftin-
in
the
chaplain refides
in the houfe.
The
and
"
"
there
be able to maintain
fliould
The
greateft attention
be regarded.
It
is
to
to cleanlinefs
be
"
proper fupport."
is
inculcated
"
"
is
mentioned
as an efTential
That
accordingly,
in health
this
is
where
they
were
The
upon
bread and
be feen in the
vifit
"
that
its
management.'
grinding.
is
lives
as will
is
evident from
thus
pointed out.
man who
is
is
conjiderabie
bathing
ceconomy, a
ftricTeft
its
The
remarked
water can
with
liberal
is
itfelf ;
"
obferved, that
is
me
in
fenfible
It
&c.
medical gentlemen
alvvay
the
countenances of thofe
received
prefcribe bleeding
from
the
dull
whom
in
the
faw
rooms
S2
The
bach..
FOREIGN PRISON
IJ 2
SchwaBACH
-
'
hung up
dming-
the
in
room*.
Bayrevth,
Bay* 5UTH
The account
S.
in Franconia, the
men
were
all
filing,
or in working
or carving
or in
proofs or famples
cutting
Some
large
the
at
warehoufe
forts
of the
brought home.
In
The
work was
their
My
this
laborious,
late
Dr.
profit.
Fothergill,
It
propofed a fcheme ot
many of
the advantages
at
who
are fet
to
Schwabach.
In the fummer months, half a pound of beef with half a pint of greens.
Sundays.
And
In the winter months, half a pound of meat with a pint of four krout-
And
Mondays.
Tuefdays.
And
in winter, peafe.
Thurfdays.
Fridays.
In winter, potatoes
And
in winter, peafe
Unto each of
Further.
a
in the
flour.
In fummer, peafe.
Saturdays.
and half
and
the
faid
prifoners
and
daily,
meafure of beer.
pound and a
is fimilar, except that each has only a
and on Mondays and Fridays, they have frumenty gruel,,
butter
or beer:
inftead of dumplings.
To vagrants,
Sundays,
Wtdnfedays,
On
To
labour.
for fupper.
The
GERMANY.
Sect. IV.
The women
*33
Their
Bayreuth.
and neglect *.
In the Houfe of
employed
were fpinning;
in
the
for
cloth
Wurtzburg
corretlion at
a well-regulated
in
and
work
the
and
foldiers,
the
As
eight
Here
and the
ment,
as thofe
the
galley-flaves
The former
are
* I have
It
may
whole,
was
there
The
feparately.
Roman
catholic
term of confine-
for their
are
is
;
regulations
and
honnetes
a book of the
into
diftinguifhed
one
to
be of ufe, however, to give fome idea of the nature of thefe regulations, which feem, on the
After mentioning that the two fexes are
planned.
from
the
i/i/ames ;
chapter
is
given,
treating
on
be kept
to
Mean*
the
feparate,
and
the
alfo
Correction,
of
under
heads.
three
.
latter are
well
honnetes
up
laid
fpinning or
all
kinds,
called)
(fo
condemned
The
leg.
work was
creutzers,
At Hanau,
defhonnetes.
mod
at
houfes have
fuch
all
under
fent hither
i. Religious
inflruSlio",
in
amply
is
laid
He
down.
is
to
read
prayers
and catechife on Sundays, and employ the moil folemn and eameft exhortations
occafionally.
2. Labour.
Idlenefs
but
text;
ij
think
it
The
great
vices,
has
attention
3.
may be employed
in
it.
Such
is
the
paid to
is
been mentioned
of regulations, which
is,
of advantage to have part of the work of a kind that any perfon, though incapable of the
labour,
man may
the
in
that
it
common
perform.
A
Clothing, and Cleanliness.
The allowance is two'
pounds of wholefome bread daily, and fomething hot for dinner. Meat only on a few holidays. For
the fick, there is an addition of four pfennings a day for board.
AH the money, however, is paid to the
keeper,
who
finds
the provifions.
Concerning
cleanlinefs
burg.
were
wheels
Here, and
perfon's
The
their
Wurtz-
weaving wide
in another,
pieces.
or poor-houfe.
hofpital
and
large room.
carding in one
a
me
women
thirty-fix
feet
fix
In a warehoufe,
(hewed
loom.
at each
a manufacturer)
men and
and waiftcoat
flocking
alfo
fifty-four
another,
foldiers,
were
woollen manufactory.
it
is
obferved, that
the want
of
it
not
only
Hanau.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
134
Hakac.
work out of
ments
in
the town
and
The
it.
and have a chain from the girdle to both legs : they never
are put to the moft laborious and difagreeable employ-
from
April to Michaelmas,
of
ft
Michaelmas
to April,
are,
fummer, from
in
five to eleven,
Allowance
two pounds and a half of bread a day: from
and each man about two pence a day
and from
to fix
forts
in
two pounds
They
a charity they have half a florin (about twelve pence halfpenny) a month.
conftantly vifited by a deputy from the regency,
every morning
at
Of
Hanau.
to
it
who makes
the young
when he
prince,
his
are
and they
fpoke with grateful refpeft of the attention fhewed them by the amiable Princefs his
deceafed mother, whofe
memory
will be
long revered
they
liked
They
be
to
" Much
anfvvered,
readily
afternoon
employed,
thus
at
would choofe
or
entrances to
the
number of
more or
flaves
be confined
lefs
the town,
when
in
On
work."
at
&c.
guard, be the
to
be thus abroad
rather
thefe
in that country.
who were
idlenefs
Saturday
They have
This
is
the
ten to twelve.
At
But
and go
to their
chambers
prifon there
in this
they were at
two
in the
fix
prifon,
pair of flioes
The
defhonnetes
for a
to the
are
not
rank of
room
man
for each
befides the
flave has,
;
all
on the ground-floor
and two
room
in the
as
which
thofe to
in
clothes
above-mentioned,
fhirts.
honnetes.
advancement of
late
Each
promoted
di/J;onnetes
not a feparate
is
committed.
firft
the
kind
that
in
whom
confequence of
it,
working on
he was
the road.
There
is
confined
in
Cassel
it.
At Cassel,
^
a
It
has
La
four
'Tour
de
floors-,
but
perfon
firft
they
were
empty.
all
Prisons.
another Prifon,
alfo
is
j#
new church
dejhonnetes
Here
feet
there
not fQ w ^ concm(5t ec
is
a Prifon for
One
gallery with
a large
Houfe of
correction,
galley-flaves
circumftance ftruck
feet
I (hall not,
me
as
two feparate
worthy of remark.
feats for the honnetes
In
and
with a work-room
high.
It
was built by
Charles, .grandfather
.detail
of the
difcipline
GERMANY.
Sect. IV.
difcipline in this houfe,
them
more
is
particular.
At Francfort
I
many
as
1.35
ten
at
One
debtors, where
Franc-
p^oL.
is
for
The
to
correction (near
In the Houfe of
women
at
At Manheim, Monfieur Babo, counfellor to the regency, very politely gave orders
mew me every room of La Mai/on de Force. Prifoners committed to this houfe
A
are commonly received in form with what is called the bien-venu (welcome).
machine is brought out, in which are fattened their neck, hands, and feet. Then
to
of twenty to thirty
of twelve to fifteen
ftripes
:
the
The
at
all
The
idle.
like
own
little
women
ftioe-makers, tailors,
as
trades,
rules
and
good.
orders are
effect,
nth. As
poiTible
cleanlinefs
immediate notice of
it
is
it
required of
to the infpeRor,
perfons to watch
all
Whoever
fees the
upon
It
is
and they
fhall
lean: offence
and
rooms
Not
cards.
:
yet though,
it.
The two
this,
mod
lad are to
this
to obferve all
ftridlly
againft
all
(hall
be.
able
to.
plead
be read
publicly
every Sunday
to the dutiful
fcveral
in
The
venu
-petit
weaver s, lapidaries
it is
ment be given
grand vend
the
they work entirely for the houfe, their labour does not maintain
The
the
or
either at their
one
orders
Germany.
work
magiftrate
the
as
morning
after
diligent.
all
other:
ManH E I M.
;
;
FOREIGN PRISONS.
The
men.
Man
other articles as
heim.
as to
the
numbers, health,
At Strasburg,
that
prevail
Lutherans,
Mm fx
in
in
this
fp ac ; ous
of
in
much
pleafed to find fo
is
oppofite
with
oak
meat.
little
not in the
in
"
fide
plank,
the door
a fortnight,
clean
ftraw.
all
how clean
many women
"
houfe clean?"
is
to the
Mo
floor
full
and
is
ft
is
we mould
How
"
can
it
in the
is
ground
at a mill in
yoke,
bafs relief at
There
I
two rooms on a
for
minifters.
his
fame
of a liberal
at
tamed
is
much
the
me
is
Over
their fabbath.
leaft offenfive.
On my
one
own
their
high
five {lories
and once
On
which
men
there are
there
hofpital
to fecurity.
whom
that they
much
was
the
middle,
the
in
a gallery for
each room has two doors, only three feet nine inches high.
tribute
Sec.
prifoners.
five
landing-place
The rooms
air.
that
city,
is
from working on
At Mentz, La
a
There
Prisons.
it
fpirit
veal,
women
blind before
one of the
in
white bread,
warned by the
it is
in the
BURG
week:
fixty-four in
S-RAs-
Sec.
women, with a
another for
indulged with
are
fick
is,
that
if
lions,
in
this
prifon;
the afternoon.
boars
faw the
a feparate
found no prifoners in
prifon
it.
for debtors.
When
La
which,
in
winter,
On
heated two or three times a day.
Prifoners have clean linen once a week.
my taking notice to the brigadier of the police who went with me, how healthy his
prifoners looked, he faid that " Some years ago, they were unhealthy; and the
is
"
regency removed them from the dungeons: upon which they recovered
*c
fince
are
now
and ever
totally difufed.
GERMANY.
Sect. IV.
It
The
make
keepers
if
the
None
wanting.
by proper
and the
i j7
of the keepers
fell
Secretaire
and inquire
liquor
and Confeilkr
Mentz-
anything necefTary be
clothes, or
if
officers.
and once
In the
offences.
has no
when
ejfccls
to be confined.
This
condemned, they
they are
are delivered
up
officer
of the
I
but
and
elecloi's,
was here
Cologn.
fix years
ago.
men were
as
is
pra&ifed at Francfort.
fpinning,
knitting
or
ftockings.
At
Wesel,
on the
which belongs
great prifon at
a very old
man
when
they
Wesel.
work
was
Pruflla, there
fortifications,
The
King of
to the
or convifts
Aix-ia-
Ville there
who was
whom
CHAPtLtE '
which
is
in
this
city *.
as
in
fome
parts
Citizens
fword,
of Italy
as
are
at
always
by
executed
Hamburg,
Bern, &c.
in
England,
Denmark, &c.
The two
Porte de
St.
prifons
(diftinguifhed
old
In two
rooms of the
La,
old prifon
faw fix cages made very ftrcng with iron hoops, four of which were empty.
(The dimenllons were feven feet by fix feet nine inches, and fix feet and a half high.
On
one fide was an aperture of fix inches by four, for giving in the victuals). Thefe
were difmal places of confinement, but I foon found worfe. In defcending deep
below ground from the gaoler's apartments, I heard the moans of the miferable
wretches in the dark dungeons.
The fides and roof were all flone. In wet weather,
water from the
fqffes
over
it
Io this and
Then he
is
air,
floors.
Each of
One dungeon
fhutter
larger
many
than
Liege.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
*3
Lxece.
than the
reft
felt
fome
thefe cells.
confinement in them
fo
away
the fenfes.
who
faw,
The
(as
becoming
of the fufferers
cries
in the
piring.
" The
in
with a candle,
this,
more fhocking
flill
and
went down
as I
One
to them.
this horrid
confinement
diffracted.
may be
torture-chamber
a bell
as
woman, however,
In looking into
lick.
when
the torture
applied
is
liftening*.
and on a
phyfi-
fignal given
by
Thus
in
Spanifh inquifition,
the
the phyfician and furgeon attend to determine the utmoft extremity of fuffering with-
add
will only
penfion
that
is,
that
in
-f.
this
prifon there
are
rooms appropriated
by the magiftrates,
mocking
practice
to prifoners en
which prevails
alfo in
pa-
fome of the
neighbouring countries.
In the Mai/on de Force there were
employed
in
the houfe
who
a woollen
ninety prifoners,
ranged
four rooms,
in
and
Perfons live in
well underftand the bufinefs, and inftruct the prifoners in forting, card-
beer for each, every day, and foup every other day.
The
chaplain,
who
me
He
this inftitution,
generally, he faid,
"
miffive."
"
In
*'
tortured, ;ien
this tribunal
they regard neither age nor fex, nor condition of perfons, but
'tis
all
Hijl.
of the
page 222.
AUSTRIAN
FOREIGN PRISONS.
>39
AUSTRIAN FLANDERS.
In
Austrian Netherlands
the
is
week
butter a
fcanty
In the prifon
at
&c.
is
them
is
pound and
made up by
fully
fupplies
.a
pound of
Antwerp
there are
two rooms
for citizens
and up
ftairs
there
is
Antwerp.
a cage, about fix feet and a half fquare, into which criminals are put before the torture.
A criminal,
clothed in a long
is
In a fmall dungeon
it
is
faid that
is
is
kind
his confeflion
have feen
which
No
but about thirty years ago there was a private execution in the prifon.
this prifon in
prifoners for
to
is
executed.
fliirt,
a confeilion
In
1778 there were only two prifoners. In November 1781 there were three
debt; their allowance was three halfpence a day.
The Clergy have a Prifon in this city, which is an old tower, three ftories high,
which perfons who come under their cognifance for adultery, inceft, &c. are
committed.
in this city.
In 1778
the
keeper's
magiftrates *,
apartments;
On
on the
criminals.
* In foreign houfes
they
may
the
river ran
warehoufe
All the
women, and
The
the
under
it
and the
on one
fide
were
room
for
the
three fides of a paved court there were thirteen cells for the -men,
other,
making
of correction there
more conveniently
is
lace.
On
one
fide
parents or relations
in
fpinning cotton
pound of cotton
room appropriated
to the ufe
at a
each
House
OF
tion.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
Antwerp
Cokrec-
each;
for fpinning
at
coming, fome did not earn more than feven or eight fous
E
fir ft
a fter
t i1C
Rye
in a
They were
this,
obliged to put on
The
were
ftoves
heated twice a day, and candles and lamps were provided, at the expence of the
magiftrates.
in
move but
a few
fteps
The
prifoners.
other
fo
dark and
as to
fofitary,
be almoft equally
dreadful.
to
a lattice of
wood
in
feats
The women
below.
Here, and
before them.
in the prifon,
alfo
fat in
a tabTe
in
from which
" The
Thefe
mufl be fubmiiTive
at
to the
in
December
The
ift
The
twelve, and
of meals
allowed, at their
broth.,
are fixed
feven,
at
own expence,
The
feven.
;
and
at
keeper
prifoners
are
or a pint of tea or ftnaU beer, and at fupper the fame quantity of tea or beer;
pound of
is
butter,
obliged to
After
They
the
all
at fix.
dinner foup or
week
they
if
to
at
and
times
Sunday
prifoners
firfl
men
are permitted
to.
walk
in
make
women
officers.
fervice
on Sundays,
an
and
alfo
every
time they are not up in half an hour after they are awakened by the keeper, and
for every hour they fleep longer.
after admonition, they
windows
faft clofed
* -K/ou
up.
is
pay a
fliver,
If they
about a halfpenny*
and are
alfo
make any
$ A Jtivtr
is
about a penny,
to
AUSTRIAN FLANDERS.
Sect. IV.
to break the
rejl
of the regents
at the difcretion
to be punifhed
who
and
In
were removed
The
arid
to
Antwerp.
make
or old age,
times of riling,
<kc."
in the
to Vilvorde.
Hofphal of
The
ward
St.
hung up
empowered
in cafe of ficknefs
November 1781
forfeit a fchclling
are likewife
wards are
thefe
beds have no
tellers
as
all
each fex;
for
yet,
as
offenfive.
have (improperly)
the upper
Hostit ac
not
are
joiits
the infirmaries in
in
Holland.
The
In the O)phan-houfe the bed-rooms were large, and had oppofite windows.
beds were
by
laid
HOUSE.
kept open.
Orphan
quite clean.
Prifon
is
for debtors
but none
in
it.
Mechlik.
1778 there were three criminals up flairs, and in 1781, five: no dungeon3.
on Sunday
Allowance, two threepenny loaves f and a pound of butter weekly
Straw, and two
three pints of fmall beer daily.
a pound of meat, and fome foup
In
blankets.
week from
a charity.
November
of
1 ft
The mode
of torture
in of May.
the
to
I will
not defcribe
it
late years.
At Brussels,
Each
of the alphabet.
of bread (pain
of meat,
of his
truft.
prifoner
men, and
in
no court-yard.
is
man
fufFering
on the
In 1778
prifoners,
one room
The
at
in
pounds
Lent, a pound
De
him
Laecken
is
not abolifhed
is
* hfchdling
is
On
the
firft
women
(va-
is
me
obliged to advance
who had
rather,
hours.
the creditor
torture
on Sunday,, except
At
Porte de Halle,
keeper of the houfe of correction was committed to this gaol for abufe
Here
he had feen a
Ld
in the Prifon
d' ammunition)
in 1778, there
chambers
in twenty-four
his
wife and
two
flay at night.
floor there
is
a chapel,
to them.
about fix-pence.
the
As
fineft,
not
tell
me
the weight,
Over
Brussels
Prisons.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
142
Brussels
Prisons.
Over
no
rooms
women.
prifoners.
At the
one or two, to
Hospital.
the fick
is
Some
all
committed
for
Religieufe of S. Augujlln.
"
offenfive
employed
tailors
are
a day.
at
careful
who
is
weeks.
fix
at
beyond de-
work ; but
mod
of
the men were occupied in the manufacture of paper-hangings; carving the moulds,
The women
making
lace.
In
December 1781,
this
houfe was empty, for the prifoners were removed to Vilvorde, where their apartments
are not fo airy and convenient.
The
rooms of the
Vilvorde
House
OF
C0!< RECTJON.
The
have
Brabant,
feen.
It
by
five
as
any
great canal
half,
for
Brufiels
to
except a
about two
are the
and eight
feet
into
At the
high
which
cell,
all
feet
and
Two
were finifhed, making three hundred and twenty rooms; there were
Each of
the
two
ihorter fides
has one hundred and feventy-fix rooms, of the fame fize as the others, and on as
floors.
the
of the
Ih ucture
leading
thefe
the
fcale
There
Each of
and a
fides,
a half
near
Vilvorde,
177?, near
in
large
as
fituated
is
the fhorter,
upon
is
by water.
almoft furrounded
and
ftill
latter *.
floor,
kind that
is
St. Gullliaume,
provinces of Auftrian
and
and
Part of thefe
fides
were finifhed
fo that,
many
of the governor's houfe, about five hundred were ready of the nine hundred and
*
Nov.
14, 177*8,
The
ajjix.e
Nov.
3,
Ko
78 1, a
price
fine
kcond fort,
brown bread.
fine
is
white fenny
roll
weighed
f white bread
iocs.
Villc.
another
fort,
1 1
oz. for
ninety-
AUSTRIAN FLANDERS.
Sect. IV.
On fome
ninety-two.
Of
wanted.
fo great
vacant ground
importance
is it
On
linen
feet
term
for a limited
Vilyori
may
are octagons
a porter's lodge.
Thofe committed
and men
refeflories
of about thirty-five
totally fo
and on each
feet
cells for
is
Thefe chapels
diftinct chapels.
about forty
built if
keep every
is
to their refpedtive
dark
way
life
from women
be
will
thefe Provinces, to
only.
each
judged by
number of rooms
more rooms
wifely
houfe,
and
ments
all
by
large in
Jlaughter- houfe
Stair cafes
fome
thirty- four
bake-
Convenient apart-
Two
fpacious
In
eight
December 1781
men and
women,
with the
number
The
linen.
new Houfe of
eighty-fix
hundred and
fixty-
They
and the
diflinguifhes
that
room,
employment of both
principal
making
is
There
fine.
though
When
I firfl
While
faw
this houfe,
wafhed clothed
his
clothes
in.
in the
and
but fome of
Mo
ft
work-rooms and
all
refectories
much
all
on
offenfive.
lace.
are feparate
red,
in
or fhoes
making
more
marked
fexes
clothes,
clafs to
his
corrctlion
and
it.
He
uniform
and
then conducted to
his clafs.
There
is
room
for
the magiftrates,
but on account of
The countenances
its
diftance
from Bruffels
The
edicts
the
firft
in
French, containing
1779, in two
Low Dutch
fixty articles,
the
which are
well worthy of attention, in any country where fimilar houfes are erected.
In the city of
Alost
thirty-feven villages.
is
There were
in
this gaoL,
December
2,
Three
Alost.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
144
lost.
in
in a
a flrong cage;
They
^"sonI
>
June
another
room
fined fourteen
At GlIENT
in
one, faid he
De
each criminal had from the city about four pence halfpenny a day
and provifion
in
of that allowance after paying for the weekly warning of their linen.
found that
were
the
five debtors,
fevvers.
was not
their allowance
The
in
money but
torture
is
in at a fmall
ftill
not abolifhed
in provifions.
This prifon
lately,
man
June
out
little
1781,
here
1783,
17,
made very
is
fat
In
offenfive
by
edged Jlool.
In a Prifon, governed by the magistrates for the States, criminals had four pence a
In each of the prifons the keeper had from the magiftrates two pence a day for
day.
is
at the
Here
is
a Prifon
lordfliips,
now
back of
thirty-three
friars
in
This
the houfe.
The
court-houfe.
which open
There were
Sr. Peter.
ileps
fraternity has
many
little
window
in
each:
no
prifoners.
May
30, 1783,
found one debtor; and was informed that there were three prifoners
in the dungeons.
The
of Ghent
city
ceconomy, of which
and
if
may
have a copy.
he be not healthy, he
is
own.
The
not put
among
is
examined
he
prifon once a
good
at his
Every prifoner
is
firft
That
rules
of
coming
the keeper
The
is
exempted from
all taxes.
phyfician to fee that the fick have broth, and other nouriftiment proper for them.
The name
is
derived from the fculpture over the gate, reprefenting a prifoner nourifhed by the breail
Romaa iu&ory.
The
AUSTRIAN FLANDERS.
Sect. IV.
The keeper
provides
and
it,
is
them employed
my
fex
is
when
gave
me no
by
fifty-three)
There
is
two
halls
new
Mat/on de Force.
of
whom
requisite, afliftance
women
men
that for
not
from
their
are
own
is
is
The
near a canal.
It is fituated
in
at
in
It
0 Si agon*
only
men
In the middle of
plan
Another of the
court
this
is
an
is
fides
is
for
women,
On
is
venience, even
fix feet
which, however,
is
in winter.
range of bed-rooms,
is
ten inches by five feet four, and feven feet eight inches
Thefe
feet.
are
and a half by two and a half), a ftraw bed, a mattrefs, a pillow, a pair of fheets,
two blankets
in winter,
fhutter to the
lattice
ftory
to flory.
No
In the wall
for a table.
is
little
perfbn
from running
another.
fire
half.
In order to the admiffion of a prifoner, previous notice muft be given by the city or
province that fends him.
him; and
if
healthy, he
When he
is
comes, he
is
marked with
alfo acquaints
a furgeon
him with
examines
coat and
I'-nen
the
and who
year
The
plate in
to
me
La
Mai;>ok
in
from
is
men who
hofpitable manfion
is
Ghent
at
the
pleafure.
little
In the Hofpital in
into
inftitution, to digrefs
The
its
in this place.
and the tendernefs with which both thefe and the poor
fillers,
feet
women
infane,
here
happened to go
as above.
fubjedt
145
Ghent,
worth copying.
A bell
Force,
FOREIGN PRISONS.
146
Ghent
La
Maison
DE
the
rung
bell is
fummer
hour
in
They
chapel.
in the
at five
rings,
names
go
are
hour to breakfafl.
to
At noon
in
Half an
prayers in a
making their beds (which in fair weather they bring out to air) and
Twas prefent during the whole time the men criminals were at dinner,
and much admired the regularity, decency, and order, with which the whole was con-
ducted.
appeared
with as
At
and
much
this
at a
word given by
The
hours
it is
whole court
who keep
On
rung
at
window over
mould
and,
guard.
ment of the
no noife or confufion
a director;
There
refractory
but
civil fociety.
thefe fucceflive
company
them empty.
Thofe
who
all
always found
is
of
for the
men
are too
is
In
this,
many were
feet
fpin-
in places
An
book
exact account
is
The
ift
j.
4.
The day
it
was
5.
The day
it
was fnifhed.
6.
7.
Number
8.
The
9.
1.
1 2.
ell.
Payment
it.
per day.
&c.
begun.
tafk due
cloth, dimity,
fuch as
work,
firft
&c.
to prifoners
is
fometimes,-make up
to
raffing logwood.
The
fometimes,
daily allowance
is
to
work
alone
I
to
faw in
it
fcldom,
often, excufe
AUSTRIAN
Sect. IV.
peafe,
Each
meat.
two
priibner has
LANDERS.
in it;
pound of cold
Ghent
buy near
Maison
alfo
is
allowed
FOR.CI
to
fell,
prohibited
and fo
at
wine, unlefs
is
Spirituous liquors
it
dice,
quarreling
all
and
gaming
all
of
this
in
French and
their
morals
To
fociety.
in
Such
difagreeable.
it
mending
times
at ftated
as wifli to fee
and offered
de corriger
them
and
Malfaiteurs
et
box
It
is
which
into
among them.
Cards-,
would
the rules
to raoft readers be
will find
book
in
is
tranfcribe all
at
Ghent
in
quarto written by
in
The
to
les
but there
equally diftributed
is
Low Dutch
are exprefsly
title
of
it
Memoire fur
is
de
et
les
Moyens
rendre Utiles a
les
VEtat.
faid tranfcribing
all
would be tedious;
reafon
for this
only given extracts from thefe, and from thofe made for other foreign prifons.
I will
I
I
have
have
fome printed,
leifure
and
in-
were
men
eighty
prifon in
carrying on a well-regulated
ftill
prifoners,
manufactory.
Mod
and quiet.
lowed one
fifth
cloth,
as
Thefe
latter
had on
which
all
brought
in
my
among
correEfion, efpecially
us, that
compelling
prifoners to work, efpecially in public, was inconfrftent with the principles of Englifh
liberty;
at
the fame time that taking away the lives of fuch numbers, either by execu-
tions, or the
fuch force
manity
is
difeafes
in
filencing
little
impreffion
upon
good
fenfe
the voice of
us.
Of
and hu-
The number
bed-
4:
FOREIGN PRISONS.
148
Ghent
Ma^son
werc
de
RCE
*
n tne
ea ** onren ^ ve
hundred and
fix,
lpinning
On
women's
the
making
in
in the
fide
lift
to point out
hope
to be
fome
defects in
a day,
is
fifty,
Their bread,
the kitchen.
in
Emperor
their pardon.
inftitution,
fo
has
too
that
If,
others
the
ftories
corridors
there are
fufficiently
the fewers
work
however, venture
good an
may avoid them,
many
The building
rooms and
detached
not
not proper workwomen have not
under ground
fome
dormiof
being but once
improperly placed
bowls, being of wood, cannot
be kept
enoughand
all
in
excufed.
or at
as carpenters, turners,
rooms
number of petty offenders was
fame manner with the criminals above-
the
fteps
feparate
the distribution
are
provifions,
the
not frequent
eafily
clean.
This furprifed
than thofe at
me
at
firft, till I
confidered that the difference was owing, probably, to the clothes of the prifoners at
At my
vifit
in
1783,
the;
houfe.
and
alfo
do not
reduced
the
farthings-worth a day.
wonder
all
in
fold,
all
from a few
fuch houfes
them
in the
is
confe-
interefted
now
loft in
to the
men and
number and
farthings
to fix ounces,
nor could
there.
fifty)
utenfils
a petition
to
to be
women
bed-rooms
Their victuals
a day.
are
houfe,
is
now ammunition
bread.
is
foon to be
fitted
up
for
an
infirmary.
Bhuges.
At Bruges
there
is
let out.
every week.
No
worth imitating.
Each
fort has
a daily allowance in
in
at
dungeons.
One
is,
Two
things
are remarkable in
money, about
London a clean
who alfo pay the
There
this prifon,
are
his
and well
;
:
AUSTRIAN FLANDERS.
Sect. IV.
city,
different magistrates,
vifit
copying the
after
room where
&c.
to
fome hours
fpent
in the recipe.
phyficians
in
and
kept in the
The
are
is
it
years paft.
fomewhat
Bruges.
every
at
is
to hold
phyfician
of them,
apprehenfive
them when
order alfo the keeper provides for the fick, foup, white bread, &c. the
his
at
many
They
are
The
fuccefs.
meet
The
both."
the
fends
recipe,
the magistrates
regularity for
and
common
is
who,
149
Some
the phyfician.
countermanded by
till
fick prifoners
liberally
provided
for.
The
is,
donors
is
frame a printed
in a
prifoners
:
and
of
lift
In the council-
donations.
all charities
>
which
at
each.,
bequeft
is
to be distributed.
In
December
Each has
weaving.
his
1,
One of
attempt to
for an
fet
He
to this houfej
fire
joifts.
This houfe
fince
is
how much
friars,
RaspH0USF .
another,
pence.
The
is
a very fpacious
them
too clofe
rife
the
a pale look,
at
and
is
in
Roman
catholic
and are
conftantly
of the pharmacy
laft
Their reclufe
countries.
why
life
gives
four,
directrefs
hofpitals
The
There
employed about
their
numerous
patients.
or fiftieth year of
who
The
refi-
dence.
Thefe
all
fijlers
religions."
Then,
faid they,
we hope you
anfwered, "
The
Hospital,
FOREIGN PRISONS.
5o
The
Ostend.
no
June
Ostend, which
prifon at
May
court.
is
in
it
and
is
paid to the
gaoler for each criminal and infolvent debtor, for which they have one
pound and
21, 1783,
The
days.
gaoler
he,
is
The
allowed two pence a day for each, and fifteen pence at entrance, and difcharge.
city.
PORTUGAL.
Portugal.
Imprisonment
There
1774.
is
is
taken in prifons
but
Many from
cordia.
provifions twice a
at
for debt
Rome, pay
is
Portugal by
prohibited in
No garnifh
by
the
kingdom
week
firft
families
in
to fcveral prifons
the
at
lie
in prifon
trial;
are executed *.
Such convidls
fend
They
Brafils.
an ordinance made in
in,
the
and fent to a
houfe (or hofpital) on the other fide of the river, where they are kept fome weeks, to
and to be
bathe,
better clothed
for their
long
voyage.
Lisbon
Prisons.
The
great Prifon
rece p t on G f prifoners
;
at
as well as
for better
On
city.
the
firft
floor there
One
gaoler's
Here
on their
parole.
is
from the
let
thus favoured, was ordered for execution feven years after he had been condemned.
to the prifon
from
his
work
in the country.
For
this
On
the
punctual
PORTUGAL.
Sect.IT.
civil
men
151
There
are
fex
Over
from the
the fick
caftle,
and the
The
priefts,
In
this
no court-yard either to
is
is
It confifts
but
many of
into a paflage
may be
fix
converfed
or to
this prifon
The
a Stipulated
nine.
who pay
pafTage, in
(lemon grove).
ecclefiaftical Prifon
rooms open
condemned,
firft
common
There
the Patriarch.
for the
room
In the
airy.
in that for
fum.
in
or private chambers.
Jecrete
thefe,
P R150Ni"
room looked
there were eighteen perfons, in fingle beds with proper bedding: their
Lisbon
two inches
thick.
feet
room
by
there
doors there was an aperture to admit light, except in two rooms called fecrete, which
were
totally
The
feveral
dark
Prifon
on the
Limoiero
*.
at
are here
confined.
The
Criminals
lefs
and
Bei.lfm
Pr
isori.
and the
gaoler told me, that he had a right to a fee from every one difcharged.
In the rfrfenal are four large rooms for the flaves or convicts, moft of
Moors.
Some work
at
off as foon
as
When
one of
whom
The
are
reft
me
he had been
went out had a long chain between them, which was taken
whom
bifcuit
a day, and
fome
rice,
*"
the prifon of the inquifition was rebuilt after the earthquake of
1755, a few perfons aw t,ie
One gentleman told me, that they open into a long paflage, like thofs at the prifon
rooms of confinement.
by
times
l SEON
Arse NAL
FOREIGN PRISONS.
152
Lisbon.
times a week
*.
The
in carrying
The
and quiet.
lofty, clean
flaves
had each
bed with
paid to them.
manufactory was begun in the Cajlle about two years ago, for the
employment of
vagrant and deferted children, in carding, fpinning, weaving, making lace, embroidery,
&c.
About
in a
But would
to idlenefs.
country like
this,
latter,
may
inftitution
it
of
Such an
in the arts
Hospitals.
a thoufand children
advantage
be a great
S. Joze,
The number
Some of
Thefe
receffes.
receffes
The
Military hofpital of S. Joab de Deos (in which were one hundred and feventy-one
Here
of 1755.
till
them
thought
too clofe.
The
hung up
year, I faw
beneficial
The
in
which
The names
in
no patients
the upper
my
The
firft vifit
March
3,
fix vifttors,
each of whom
at
is
hofpital
firft
whom
on the fouthern
fide
is
here about
rented.
this
propofed.
found
eight or ten Danifh failors had_ lately died here of a malignant fever.
dirty.This hofpital
this
On
many
whom
it,
accounts,
had a bed.
The
In
fide-wall
and
it
Gentlemen
fide of the river, where every advantage of fituation might be chofen.
would then undertake the infpedtion of it; the head furgeon might daily attend;
and our feamen here would not be fo liable as they are, to be decoyed into foreign
iervice.
may
firft
days of Lent
(wtf. Afti
Wed-
SPAIN.
Sect. IV.
15
and ninety chilIn the Mifericordia hofpital for foundlings, there were between eighty
nurfe had four
Each
clean.
and
healthy
looked
Moors.
They
them
dren, moft of
infants
under her
There
care.
is
Baftardy
a cradle
in this
country
in this hofpital
number of foundlings
The
prifoners at
Evora
and Elvas
is
attended with
is
and
The
Hofptal
Some of
The wards
tiles.
may be
by
fubfift
in
why
Evora
trial f.
it,
the reafon
charity.
brought to
Evora had
at
perhaps,
with a
difgrace, children
little
fo inconfiderable *.
this,
axis,
Lisbon:.
clofe.
which
the prifons
I vifited,
by iron grates,
fides
ftreet
at
begging.
SPAIN.
I entered Spain
at
Badajoz,
March
9,
have courts
fhade.
fees
no beggars
for
The fame
demand
1783.
and
it
the
is
which
is
cuftom likewife,
of
of brown
in Portugal,
as
condemned
After condemnation,
"
cz.
chari-
the prifons
lb.
Two
in the centre,
The
Moft of
it.
in
fine
two Vintems.
t At Elvas the Marfhal de Valkre did me the favour to fhew me the new barracks, Sec. 1 could not but
remark to him, that I was perfuaded, the clofenefs of them, as well as thofe under the ramparts, gave his
foldiers their pale
He walked
with
me
to a
new
whom
who
fountain, and
mewed me
he
Spain.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
*54
Spain.
he
called
is
by a
fecretary,
he
executed.
is
and a
Monday
for the
When
friar attends to
The
fentence
is
his fentence
who
is
read to
him
till
following.
a confeflion
is
may
either confirm
read to
it is
or retract
But
it.
in
the cuftom at
is
Madrid
for
condemned
fentence of one
months
the prifons
vifit
When
and they
months, on account of
fix
his large
Asylums.
Some of
were
five perfons
of the privilege
*.
one of
whom
Prisons.
men, and
faid
pavement round
S.
the verge
in the provinces.
deferters
and fmugglers.
There
in
is
found more attention paid to prifoners, and the prifons kept cleaner, in the capitals
At Madrid
At the former, there
At the latter, there
is
which
There
is
The
is
by a court
and moil
The
they rubfift partly by alms, and partly by felling purfes, &c. which they
make
in the
prifon.
Talavera
Hospitals.
At Talavera
were fpacious and
That
for
men had
In the largeft
fix.
Adjoining to the men's ward, there was a neat room and bed for fick decayed ecclefiaftics.
* Dr. Moore, in his View ef Society and Manners in Italy, judicioufly obferves, that, " the afylum which
" churches and convents offer to criminals, operates againll the peace of fociety, and tends to the encourage" ment of this fhocking cuftom (Jiabbing) in two different manners firft, it increafes the criminal's hopes of
" efcaping fecondly, it diminifhes, in vulgar minds, the idea of the atrocity of the crime. When the popu" lace fee a murderer lodged within the facred walls of a church, protected and fed by men who are revered
" on account of their profefTion, and the fuppofed fandTity of their lives ; mufl not this weaken the horror
" which mankind naturally have for fuch a crime, and. which it ought to be the aim of every government to
:
Later XLIII,
At
;:
SPAIN.
Sect. IV.
At Toledo
But
many were
the
whom
all
March
PRli0N
two
16, 1783,
-'
looked unhealthy.
were dying
firft floor,
Toledo
in
on
155
On my
in their beds.
obferving
to the gaoler, that the prilbn was crov/ded, he informed me, that a fortnight before
had been more crowded, a hundred having been then removed to the arfenal
at
it
Gar*
them placed
beds, each of
The
Hofpital of San
from the
city.
It
fex,
opening to the
beds
in
lofty
floor.
recejes,
each
in
by
were, in recefles.
of
their
is
Hospitals.
fix
fummer and
has
fummer
are
window
more
frefh
for
is
finely
windows
the
of which
men
the
is
two rows of
The women's
air.
is
a fpacious
corridor for
walking.
The
principal Prifon
"
"
of
reign
the
his
Court Prifon
this
The number
women.
(La Cared
Reynando
infeription,
this
de Corte) at
Madrid,
A. D. 1634, by
direction
are
many rooms on
one of them,
two
in
men and
forty
fome
in
two
fteps.
who
will
pay him
room, the
fine,
Thefe
lay
a real vellon
In fome of the
are
men
two courts
on barracks
in
lay frngle,
in
to
in
thofe
one
irons.
lets
pound per
waihing
Here
bread
Some
the middle f.
legs,
large
which were moil of the prifoners, was paved and had arcades on
and a fountain
fides,
of the Council,
fecurity of prifoners."
with ftone bedfteads, and iron hooks for chaining the prifoners.
" In
los presos.
There
acuerdo del
con
The
day.
whom
provifions were
The
good; the
which
I generally
faw the
men
their linen.
term
Madrid
Prison.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
56
Madrid
term of
Prisons.
a
He
his confinement.
^/ vellon
was clean
whom
The
rooms
has
for
He
humane and
is
fix doubloons
my
as I
frequently vifitcd,
which
alfo
who
looked'
all
healthy.
The
(La
City prifon
There were
in
Carcel de Villa)
is
it
and humane.
La
Carcel de la Corona
whom
At
gars,
had
his
thirty
is
one court-yard.
The rooms
women.
of
men and
There were
among
this practice
in
people,
five priefts,
it
one
the gate of the poft-office, there are four or five dungeons where vagrants, beg-
here five
few days,
till
There were
their allowance
was twelve
quartils
The Prado
is
&c.
barrack-bedfteads.
on which they
lay
prifoners
To
pence)
quartils (five
who work on
thofe
to marines, fourteen
in
roads, bridges,
They
and to thofe
in
irons,
which are
feventeen
is
who do
not work,
twelve quartils.
i
law about
fifty
coming from work, and afked fome of them, which they preferred
working, or confinement?
They
readily replied,
the former
at the prifon,
San
lR; ",NDO
'
ders, vagrants,
and beggars.
Here were
Some were
city, is a
carrying ftone
to
men and
a lime-kiln
>
five
hundred
fome making
and wafhing the linen of the houfe; and fome were fpinning linen and worfted.
work-rooms
houfe.
The
are
the cafe
in
The men's
in
The women
much
is
is
cleaner.
is
generally
is
The
Two
The
provifions were
men
good
at dinner,
They
are
SPAIN.
Sect. IV.
a fhop for
Here
the fale of wine, the quality and price of which are fixed by the
The
trance, or difcharge.
it
157
prifon
be
No
fold..
ma-
fees
is
has alfo a guard, confuting of thirty foot and eight horfe, which
is
changed every
month.
Here
tive
is
governefs.
a head-keeper or
man, who
the houfe:
refides in
The
fenfible
and atten-
there
a refident
for an
embezzlement
for
exad
employment of every
regular
fide
religious duties
humane,
fide, a
on the women's
as alfo
ftridt
of decorum
in the diftri-
two fexes
feparation of the
is
fiiall
table *.
*
Twenty ounces of
At
Twenty ounces of
a half of jew-beans.
Twenty ounces of
full,
two ounces of
rice,
and two
To make
their ollas
\\,
fait
butter
for fupper.
On
pound of
On meat days,
oil
Full Diet.
Half Diet.
Common Diet.
Low Diet.
Breakfaft.
Dinner.
Supper.
Bread
fix
is
to be
ounces.
Breakfalt.
Dinner.
Supper.
The
Breakfalt.
Broth.
Dinner.
Supper.
The
irotii
fame.
fame.
only.
Chocolate, bifcuits, wine and other necefiaries are allowed the fick
fix
at
Madrid.
Nurfes and others who attend the fick are allowed a diet of ten ounces of meat, fixteen
ounces of bread,
Olla, is a general
term in Spain
of wine daily.
ws. meat,
greens, pepper,
&c.
The
San
Fernando.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
Madrid
The
of prifon,
Hofpicio, a fort
Hospicio.
ent j re jy feparated.
wool.
Forty or
In two rooms
wide cloth.
in
of the
fifty
fifty
in years,
go to breakfafl
were picking
in another, fixty
Some
for gloves
All
I alfo
faw at work.
commonly
and fup
boys were
carpenters
leafl
alfo a well-regulated
is
confiderable
Fifty
attend
rife at fix
They have
at fun-fet.
twenty-two ounces of bread, and two ounces of peafe a day, and half a pound of
There
The
are
difor-
regulations of this well-conducted houfe are the fame with thofe for San
Fernando.
The Real
Hospitals.
and ten
Ho/pit al General,
by two hundred)
feet
is
which
in
The
Three
are
hundred
fides
of the
divided by a wall having feveral arches, are furnifhed with double rows of beds on iron
bedfleads (fix feet three inches by three feet two) one for each patient, and a marble flab
is
is
The rooms
many
an
five
wide
The number
The
of
women was
In
of men,
airy
this hofpital,
of
vifitors
by a
lift
that
was
eafy.
and
fhut.
A multitude
The number
windows were
were lodged
and
at
Their apartments
one or two
in
in the
new
Here
is
guarded.
for
a detached ward, for prijoners, furnifhed with twenty-eight beds, and well
Here
are likewife
rooms
The
confumptive patients.
contagion of confumptions
is
it
an officer
eighteen
in
and
Danger
only the clothes, bedding, and furniture of rooms, but alfo the walls and ceiling.
has been apprehended even
and for
this reafon
of
who had died of this diftemper. Befides one principal phyfician, there are
others, who attend their flated wards
fix furgeons with two hundred pupils
;
(pyatkantes)
and twenty-three
priefls;
befides fervants,
who
all
hofpital.
The
undred and
feventy-three
is
men
The
Here
wards for
the
the
men. are up
aperture in
flairs:
N.
women's apartment
it
The wards
them..
the
Sect. IV.
159
Madrid
is
may
converfe with
them without
Hospital
feeing
of both fexes were cleaner and quieter than thofe of the general
hofpital.
In the convent
De
la
Latina there are two rooms for fick men, one for fummer, the
much
hofpitals.
-Here
In
At
the time of
my
vifit,
more
attention
are
is
is
they were
rooms
who
died in
There
are at
The
Hofpitals
The
with glazed
The
before them.
The
and
is
built in the
is
and
It
The
The
patients
In one room
Here is alfo a refeftory.
one pound of mutton, and
The
men
a quarter of a
pound of
lard
In the two rooms for the fick, the regulations for the phyfician, furgeon, and
a day.
patients, are
In a
women..
crofs.
lofty.
tiles.
five feet
veller
form of a
room
hung up.
in this hofpital a charitable fociety, called the
flreets,
meet with
in this
flipper of bread
Hermandad
del Refugio,
meet
this hofpital,
diftreffed
people they
and eggs, one night's lodging (in rooms which are appropriated for
raifins *.
The
where one of the eighteen phyficians already mentioned always attends to examine
and admit patients. In that part of this hofpital which is next the ftreet, there is a
place into which the fick put notices of their diflrefs, in confequence of which they are
immediately vifited and relieved by the fociety.
pital,
about no.
lb. coft
from twelve
to fourteen reals
of barley, from
real
is
five to fix.
2 Jd.
111.' *
Herman.
* l
Re
FOREIGN PRISONS.
Valladolid
In the city of
there are four courts, the chancery, the city, the bifliop's
Moft of the
it
it
but in the
bifliop's
has no dungeons.
In the chapel
is
lie
on a bench
men and
long room:
in a
condemned.
April 4,
women.
thirteen
In the City prifon alfo moft of the prifoners were crowded together into one long
room.
which
in
one,
Fees
are brought
are
to
trial.
About
one real.
demanded
thirty convicts
Not
long
fince,
Madrid
The prifon
allowance
is
The
a day.
reals
of the prifon
at
as
(prefidios)
is
are
prifoners
two principal
true of the
crime for which he was tortured, but confeJTed another (a murder) and was executed
for
it.
my
1 failed in
by the kind
which are a
applied to
On
go
him being
in proceffion
accefs
faw the
to
fhew
me
month with
me
The
of the order,
me
but he told
me
which
to the tribunal,
feven
of the
feveral
inquifitor,
with feats for the two fecretaries, and a ftool for the prifoner.
him
at
to
At Madrid,
Lifbon.
inquifition at
got
holiday
this
crofs
me
morning.
received
of Count Campomanes,
afliftance
a table
it
that he
make.
The
fecretaries,
was received
at
the
inquifition-prifon
is
like
at
denounced
at
an
altar,
admifllon at
their
inquifitors,
On
the fide of
in
this
that
fecretary's
by the two
my
letters
Valladolid.
at
Valladolid
The
tribunal
room
locks) into
the
room, over which was inferibed, that the greater excommunication was
againft
all
inftgnia
ftrangers
who prefume
of the inquifition.
famous Spaniih
In
to
enter.
a large
In
room,
two
other
tribunal
fhelves,
SPAIN.
Sect. IV.
room,
prohibited books, fome of which were Englifi: in another
many
lhelves,
***
The
multitudcs of croffes, beads, and fmall pictures.
and the veftments for the unhappy victims. After feveral confultations,
alfo
I
few
mewed me,
Valla-
I^wisi-
was permitted
go up the private
ftaircafe,
learned,
cells
by walking
in
by two walls, to prevent prifoners converfing together, and that over the
between the walls there is a fort of chimney or funnel, enclofed at the top, but
are feparated
fpace
Thefe funnels,
Both the
cells.
enter.
fcrves
fides,
The
their prifoners.
me
inquifitors allured
two
gloomy area
It is well
known
it
common
The
feet
by
appear.
it
with windows
Burgos,
Prifon at
no appeal.
is
need not
fay
how
horrid
is
by
lliled,
a monftrous
court of inquilition.
the Efgueva: the wards are one hundred and eight
at the ends.
The
is
on any of
at the
apojlolic
light
cells
and a glimmering of
fome of the
air
Each ward
Hospital.
into corridors.
(built, as appears
by an
is
infeription
on the
and
a fountain,
front, in
1778)
Burgos
Hone trough.
The
Prison.
by nine and a half. They have two doors, the inner one latticed.
The number of prifoners April 8, 1783, was one hundred and forty-live men and feven
women. The women, as in other gaols in this country, are always locked up in their
In the men's infirmary there were nineteen beds in recelTes, but only fix patients.
rooms.
The
this gaol
orders are
The
hung
Hofpicio
for foundlings,
in the
was not
Here
is
in,
till
In
this, as in
and fewers,
river,
It
is
and
confilts
men and
Four nurfes
The
though
No
rules
and
Two
rooms
women,
are appro-
in the houfe.
for
no torture-room.
and a chapel.
brought
offenfive.
up.
made
it
The
bread
is
good and
half.
The
Hosprcio.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
162
The
Burgos.
thefe
who
lain,
by being confined
my
tears,
in
a dark
interpofition
room
for her.
woman
in
one of
is
The
Hospital
DkLfttY.
t,
Rey
Hofpital del
at the rich
as
from
may
the others.
by nine
feet
for
feet four
city,
be feparated
in alcoves
(ten
The
other
women.
belonging to them*.
The
Pamplona
Prison.
Prifon at
fmall courts
and
flocks,
Pamplona
the prifoners
alfo a
It has three
There were
prifon.
is
lie in
diftempers had not fometimes prevailed there, and was anfwered in the affirmative,
and told that about eight years ago, eighteen or twenty prifoners had died
Here were
time.
each
men and
fixty-one
floor of this
prifon
rooms were
The term
clean.
The
One of
all
for
me
that he vifited
I
I
;
faw
the
this
him
he
that he did.
replied,
The
if
fmall
women.
Each had a bed
in a fhort
Allowance to
is
here
is
The upper
to
women
three
torture
is
whom
releafes
had releafed
to
the council-chamber
thirteen.
(Navarre).
The day
before
in
the
prifon,
and
got to Pamplona, he
all
were
releafed.
Asylums.
Two,
of the four churches in this city, are Afylums for debtors and criminals, at
C.tadel.
Thofe
in
Thofe
in
the upper
in
(or convicts)
crowded
number, very
for very
flight
fickly,
offences.
leg.
barracks,
SPAIN.
Sect. IV.
There
is
money.
is
all,
loaf,
it is
"p
^^
di-
Thofe
vided, and one half given them everyday, to prevent them from felling it*
only a ring, find fecurities for not efcaping, and fometimes are employed in
who have
term
is
doubled.
Some
more
for
fettlemcnts.
Here
is
in
are here
employed,
Workmen
vagrants,
to
carry on
MiseriC0RDIA
alfo
manufactory of coarfe
cloth.
Near the
Mifericordia there
They
de la doBrina).
is
forty-five
There
Hofpital
This houfe
girls.
in a building erected
is
(los ninos
in the
churches.
in part
fupported
found the men's wards very dirty J, but the women's clean.
and alio wards for fick prifoners.
is
obferved, that the fame attention was paid to them, as to the other patients, for
twice
attended one
of the
phyficians
and
lie
Jiandard weight.
lb.
oz.
10
iof-
five farthings.
10
two pence.
Good brown
t At Madrid
alfo, a part
bread
lullfeajls, is
appropriated to the
The
floors
of moft hofpitals in Spain, are laid with a foft and bad brick, and they are fometimes fprinkltd
many
is
women
attend.
What
The cuftom
walking of rooms.
1
have obferved
air
and
ftration
in
cleanlinefs,
of warning the feet and hands of patients before they are put to bed, which
fome hofpitak,
is
and an abftemious
not
diet, are
cf phyfick.
fingle;
Hospitals.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
164
Pamplona,
fingle
and
room
fhould be in that
her
feet in a
On my
juft
take
my
leave of Spain,
me
in
at
muft make
my
tour through
it
my
(he faid
was
it
The French
by the fame
The
Prisons.
Flanders and
Tour de
St.
Pierre at
offenfive
Lille
and
FRANCE.
are chiefly governed'
France.
There were
an old building.
is
four vagrants.
Allowance
fmall
Sir
Netherlands,
the
^83,
The
provinces in
by
FRENCH FLANDERS
is
in
it,
May
this
prifon,
at
my
fifteen fteps, I
laft
At
vifit
The
my
grateful
caught
acknow-
butter,
24,
of the fick, in
Citadel
in the kitchen
the true reafon was, that fhe thought they would difturb.
I replied,
In a fpacious
reft.
Before
Lille
fmoky kitchen.
effects of
lying in caferns, or
May
the fortifications.
here were three hundred and forty prifoners, moft of them deferters.
in
irons.
The
there
fcurvy has
were
lately
eighty-fix
made
26, 1783,
In
the fick-
fome of whom,
havock
great
here.
Particular attention fhould be paid to air and cleanlinefs, where prifoners have
employment.
Humanity
to
them, and
"
"
"
We have found,"
fays he,
late
"
who
at
are
vifitors,
condemned only
and
who
are
for a year or
now kept
apart."
my mind
committed
two
for
therefore,
Such
no
demands
:
life,.
by
a regulation
In
FRANCE.
Sect. IV.
Lule
In the General Hofpital for the poor of both fexes there were about two thoufand in
May
Thofe advanced
1783.
girls
Many
one third of
making
lace, for
dormitories, infirmaries,
and
at
spitai
There
their earnings.
mary, (Hotel-Dieu), are very good; but (taking up more than twenty quarto pages)
they are too long to be inferted.
The two
Hofpitals
the admiflion of
takes in
mewed
dries
Each
kifles
one
foot.
fome inconveniences
warm
wounded
bed
his
arife,
is
immediately
the windows;
is
St.
them, and
fervant
and
and recovering.
When
bed.
Comteffe
The
women.
very lick
La
men,
it.
A man
towel..
mode
of
in
Arras
In the prifon at
I
had feen
who had
in France.
thirty-nine prifoners,
irons.
it,
faw two
he told
in the
me "
it
Arras.
court
was for
attempting an efcape."
At Amiens
Conciergerie.
are
In the town-houfe,
He was
for
Les Bourgeois
et
Le
Libertinage
the other,
La
woman
for
of a
trial
Amihms.
him of
his
intellects.
The
his releafe.
In or near
Paris
For-l' Eveque,
the principal prifons were the Conciergerie, Grand and Petit Chdtelet,
V Abbaye,
and the
But
Bicetre.
my
at
vifit in
1783
worft of them, Petit Chdtelet and For-l' Eveque, with their horrid
demolished.
The
new
airy
dungeons, entirely
The
condud of
prifons.
It
and
humane and
claries
and a
cri-
of
total abolition
men
of under -ground
dungeons
Paris,
FOREIGN PRISONS.
i66
upon
dungeons,
Paris.
who may
it is
poffibly be innocent,
Moft
'
door
in
is,
each other by a
feparated from
half high,
fome
prifons,
a turnftile.
and
to four
feet
area or court.
little
lovvnefs of the
doors (at
each of which you muft (loop) and the turnftiles, effectually prevent the prifoners
rufhing out.
In moft of the prifons there are five or
one walking
them
is
ftrictly
abroad, or otherwife at
one
at the
This
lcifure.
And
one hundred
at leaft
yet in
may
fome of the
I
is
there, the
firft
tolerable,
the
My
are
paved
hardly believe
how
in
in
needful.
lefs
recently in-
that
it
was evident,
humane
attention
them.
One would
manner
and chains
No
prifons, there
was
to conclude, that
are
a year.
livres
was paid
They
in rotation.
When
which
have
to
at
the judge.
women's ward
liberty they
directly or indirectly,
at the doors
1 was furprifed
two or three
turnkeys, viz.
fix
to
when
in
fummer once
was
in
the chambers
it,
befides the
that
Englifh gaols.
in
One
this
I felt
or twice a day.
upper rooms.
this
circumftance
As
properly feparated,
up
a feparate
room
it
is
difficult
the gaoler of
Le
to
keep fuch
Petit Chdtelet
become
the
to
fit
as
was obliged
the gaoler or a
No
perfon
is
As condemned
criminals generally
throw off
and by
young and
by fending thofe who
all
referve,
relating their
lefs
offenders
are fentenced
care
is
practifed
to
FRANCE.
Sect. IV.
the time
till
Some
two days
after fentence.
Tourneik,
being carried
for their
many months
continue here
St.
heard that about two- hundred were fent from that prifon
vifit
found only
Pa
Bernard; where
off.
to Marfeilles
in 1778,
La
to a feparate prifon,
to the galleys,
is
In
a half of
good bread, and half a pound of meat, and foup. On maigre days they are allowed
On their journey they have two pounds of bread, half a pound
peafe in their foup.
of meat, a pint of wine, and about a quarter of a
are fent from hence to Marfeilles,
Toulon,
many
was informed,
that
May
in
pound of
cheefe,
They
or eggs.
Breft,
May
and the
I
this
prifon.
To
inferior court
the fentence
without hopes of
is
fentence; and
it is
is
Then
to- fufFer.
to death
till
their decifion,
till
the
life,
on which- a prifoner
that
no one condemned
by the
the
laft
his execution.
The chambers
to Eafter
day-time,
among
night-rooms
at the
in the
and fhut
in the
at feven,
at feven in
November
to
night.
their
opened
are
from Eafter
at fix,
November
ift to
Taking
garnijh, or
at
come out of
Women
from men.
footing,
is
that fort,
him by hiding
dungeon, and
ift
as
lying in bed and idlenefs, are productive of the fcurvy and other diftempei's.
are kept quite feparate
Eafter
from November
at fix,
in the court-,
Common-fide
felons.
evening
ftrictly
his clothes
fufFer other
prohibited.
If prifoners
on whatever pretence
&c. they are
They
punifhment.
if,
fliut
up
demand
of a
order to obtain
new
it,
they
for a fortnight in a
dark
in
fame chaftifement
The
foup.
The
They have
foup
is
is
pound and
is
The
year 1753.
occafion of
it
France they
call
le
the prifons
and
to fpread in
fcorbut,
from
a half
a fociely,
which was
in
the prifons.
instituted
about the
the fcurvy.
the
Hotel-Dieu, whither
prifoners
that
had
it
were
removed*
FOREIGN PRISONS.
The
removed.
caufe of
it
were
ill
of
at
it
By
carried.
Abbe
the
occafion,
This put an
which
in
malady
for
and return
and are
it,
who
of character,
attended
general
thoufand
is
(hirts,
in the prifon
and by
fuel,
and
foliciting
was completed.
it
The
does
many kind
a lady
offices to
the pri-
but
-f-
be properly
the infirmaries
elder pri-
(every Saturday)
linen
feven
laft,
them with
;
that at
they receive
fupplies
foners in
by the fociety
gratified
is
in
clean
Numbers
it
fo
in
it
this
with
in that prifon.
the
Eight hundred
all
butions;
relief
Louis, to
St.
for
fortnight.
There
is
alfo
faw
at
On
public
Chriftmas 1778, and foon after found the prifoners fupplied with clothes.
Thofe who
lleep
Thefe
latter are
feldom
let
out
but
in
the
All the regulations are ordered to be read in the chapel to prifoners, the
firft
Sunday of every month, by the chaplain and they are hung up in the prifon for
common infpection. If any prifoner tears, or otherwife damages them, he fuffers
;
corporal punifliment
turnkey, he
The
is
regifter
if a
is
if
difcharged.
difcipline
obferved
is
fo
exact,
that
at
the
fire
the
in
Conciergerie,
the
numerous
prifoners (as
otherwife %
or
For a
forbidding their
trnjl
furnifliing
f Tre/orteres ou
I
la
Dames
1767.
fpirituous liquors,
Tom. L
/. $ 10, Sec.
de char he.
quarto, 6th
Combe, in his Traitc des Matieres Crimimlks, Paris, 1769,
condemned a gaoler to be hanged,
edition, cites at page 339, an arret of parliament in the laft century, that
periflj for
want of food.
FRANCE.
Sect. IV.
by a
to the magiftrates,
They
are allowed to
The
turnkeys
drunkennefs. &c.
fo as to caufe excefs,
fome things
fell
to their prifoners
is
fo
needful, order
them
fmall
twenty thoufand;
thoufand;
at
is
fixed in
about
is
it
at Fol I'Eveque,
nominated, he
whom
to
twenty thoufand;
complain of
to
all
and
vifit
their
men
of
in
to
remove
if
Chdtelet,
twelve
he added,
France."
after
if,
The
Grand
When
magiftrates.
man of
office is
and
at the
confidered,"
them
the Petit-Chdtelet,
at
things
this clafs
the
totally
who
llvres
which are
thoufand
And
If the
to the crown,
fifteen
of a gaoler belongs
it
prifons
they recover.
till
man,
The nomination
Poor
months together.
at the Conciergerie,
in the
at ten at night.
and dreadful.
"
"
"
"
to
ftripes.
mud
by
and require.
foners fick,
day;
and
when known
this,
and
vifit
169
he has been
careful inquiry
probity, he
is
given him
freely
all
they formerly paid to the crown are remitted, and the leafes given up.
As
for debtors,
their
number
is
Of
fmall.
the
This perhaps
more.
and imprifons a
fiilence,
i.
e.
is
debtor,
owing
to the following
fous, equal
good
in
and
if
fo
do
As
all
expences occafioned by
The whole
provided for by
attended
to.
The
good
laws
fick
fends to
all
be properly attended
the prifons
arrefts
fet at liberty.
falls
Befides this,
on the creditor
prifoners are
the execution of
who
and
enabling
fubftitutes
is
of them
ftciently
bailiff
the like
Every
arrets.
to nine fhillings
London)
prifoners in
two or three
is
this,
carefully
vifit
them
to fee
of
the
Paris.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
170
Paris.
and two
the attorney-general,
room
The
They go at Chriftmas,
Simon and Jude. There is
clerks.
St.
Eafter, WhitfunticTey
in,
It is
occupied
allowed to
do
is
little
The
aloud.
it
into every
ift.
if
make of
the
They
without
3.
of
prifoners
debtor can
raife
How
tors.
livres
him of
they clear
the remaining
two
long
all
the
if
it
detained too
trial.
They
to the parliament,
who have
In behalf of prifoners
name
If a
the parliament
commonly
orders the
prifoner be acquitted, he
is
difcharged within
The
laws of France do not in ordinary cafes admit a debtor to bail without the
But
And
men
is
even
bail
this
each cafe as
occurs.
liberty
for fees,
is
livres.
no (landing law
for this
and that
it
it
moment
immemorial cuftom
rather an
received their
a
in
creditors to accept
no infolvent a&s.
their
When
prifoners have
be detained
whatever.
The
When
he
has any to make, he applies to the chief juftice, by whofe order the prifoner was
committed.
the
If
he
by an
was imprifoned
if
order
from
the king,
to
he applies to
the lieutenant-
criminal.
Befides
the deputation
he
is
that
FRANCE.
Sect. IV.
that of the deputation
I learned,
and
By
humane
They
to the diftreffed.
Paris,
parliament) oblige creditors to accept one third part of debts under two thoufand
livres
The
this
The dungeons
piazza.
the
At the
is
vifts here
new
with a fine
lying
L'Abbaye
who
eyen thofe
on
lie
ft
by
eight)
fix feet
In
tion be
In four of thefe
made
and
men
end of an expedient
in
the partition,
is
it
to prevent efcapes
of
perfora-
between that and the wall into the keeper's court, through the aperture which
for that purpofe.
were fometimes
Here
fifty
On
ftraw,
in the Conciergerie,
-
In the dungeons,
Prifoners
who pay
for their
half.
A livre is jbb
f The number of
little
prefent of wine
is
1,
1776, and
99
22
13
14
25
rooms
Total
June
Men
Women
Men
Women
Men
In the Infirmary,
feven and a
is
left
confined.
Some pay
GrandChatelet
upon ftraw f.
is
bread,
rooms
In the debtors rooms a partition of lath and plafter, detached from the brick-
rank.
*^iz'
feveral vifits in
dungeons (ten
Co
*.
all
At
abolijlxd.
is
and
At my former
in each.
There
caution.
Conciergerie has
29
202
May
15, 1785.
126
o
18
o
16
22
182
10 ^d.
prifoners
May
In rooms,
47.
On
209.
ftraw,
In dungeons,
16.
In infirmaries,
33.
Total 305.
dungeons, on maigre days, becaufe their allowance then being only
The
L'Abbaye.
FOREIGN PRISONS.
172
AR1S
The
^
de la
Force.
Hotel de
la
Force, a
new Prifon
It
is
building, and has feveral courts and areas for the feparation of men, and
The
The number
of
courts are
women, and
all
men and
and petty
(vagrants, deferters
for debtors,
offenders)
Over
women.
eleven
their
doors are painted the price to be paid for the beds from five to thirty fous a night.
There
are alfo
cannot pay
all
poor have one pound and a half of bread and foup every day *.
Here
two chapels, an
are
Here
airy
apothecary's
this,
infirmary,
day on duty
in cafe
lift
number of
many were
defcriptions was
The
prifoners of
all
fent
each fex
for
into the
arret
one another
office
of the police,
more
firft
ian fourteen
days.
to
rooms (called
At my
fmall.
laft
'
The
1783, the
17,
for the
are
on
ftraw.
pay
On
fix livres a
The
court
are
now not
women,
for
thirty-eight prifoners
ufed'.
fituated in
is
whom
fome of
a-
A
articles
being new,
la prifon."
i. e.
is
t Moft of the
for
month
fecond
the weight
all
-f-.
At Paris and Bordeaux, in May 1783, the fine white bread was two pence per pound
and brown bread, eight pounds for nine pence: but at fome diftance from
three halfpence
article
whom
Here were
or four years.
rooms
are fix
the city.
Here
fecrete)
vifit
women, who
for loofe
is
rooms
are three
May
but
each of
zvalk in
is
of Saint-Martin
Prifon.
t]
two
Martin.
departments
in feparate
affift
The
furniflied
deferters.
Saint-
and a well
1 will
of
Marquifat
Pain commun,
pefant
Pain
pefant 9 livres
fol
bis,
or fou
is
equal
to
fols.
16
fols.
ftiall
it.
"
of
D Arpagon.
18
livres
fort,
lift
here copy.
3 fols.
a halfpenny
Englifti.
copy
Prifoners
le
Paris a
of
pay no
fee at
coming
in or
great
FRANCE.
Sect. IV.
No
great degree.
court.
*73
a half
Paris..
Bicetre
is
only a prifon,
women,
for
men and
the Hotel- de-ville there are two rooms, in which were two
At
The
are within
upon
fhould call
it
an enormous one
walls, not
a coarfe
work-houfes
the infane
Of about
The majority
If
men that
who wear
four thoufand
are
the poor,
Each
difeafe.
fort
many glazed
hundred
livres
window
feet fquare,
:
there
There
and ninety-fix.
The number
are others in
of thefe rooms
there were
Such
are
called
Ld
Force,
of the court (Ld Cour Royale) which were crowded with prifoners:
fide
in a
is
is
Some
court and apartments totally feparate from the other, and from criminals.
in little
were
it
Salpetriere
as
woman.
Paris.
is
its
fmall
in
1778,
idlenefsj
afcribed
examples they had here feen, and the inftructions here given
them.
Over
mary
the two
rooms Ld
Force, there
a diftemper very
a general infirmary
is
common and
them
of this
ill
and over
that,
an
infir-
fatal
a year or two, from their confinement, as they were never fuffered to go out of their
Many
rooms.
loft
it.
at the expiration
of their term at
the Bicetre.
In the middle of
Ld
and
a ftone funnel
at
and the
fixteen fteps
From
for air.
that
is
my
the fituation of
cell,
down
reafon,
and
hope
conclude
will
be an
the
city
it
is
very dirty
no
fire-place in
and
which
is
a curiofity.
yards deep.
It
The two
was funk
in
1735
is
at
my
former
vifits
they
Bicetre,
FOREIGN PRISONS.
*74
Paris
BlCETRE.
up by
horfes,
fheads.
now
three
prifoners to work.
rooms,
five
hundred and
Sal?.
IU
E..
number
much
are
upwards of
is
Here
embroider}-.
feen
by Grangers.
infirmaries
in
fixteen buckets
for
Many
There
in
at
my
former
for
vifits.
women
and
girls,
their
fineft
The
is
infane
and a fifterhood of
religieufes
lodging-rooms are
their
of
in
five thoufand.
are
fix-
hundred hog-
faw
hofpital,
five
in
They draw
hours in a day.
The prifoners
The great
They worked
about
fet their
in
daily
at a time,
fenftble
and drew
in five minutes.
mod
in
a bed.
employed.
At my
laft vifit
there were
Many
There
are three
The whole
good fitters.
may occur to fome of my
Bastille.
The
Baftille
am happy
to
It is
the fale of
extremely
be able to give
this,
confined in
fcar.ee-
this pri-
it
which fome
by means of
it
is
; and
become
and have caufed the plate to be copied from that in the work.
<
This caftle is a (late prifon, confifting of eight very ftrong towers, furrounded
with a fofse about one hundred and twenty feet wide, and a wall fixty feet high. The
the end of the
entrance
is
at
court
is a
large
is fifty
modern
feet
by twenty-five.
corps de Iogis,
is
which
up to the
Contiguous to
a platform continued in
14Z&. or half as
top.
At the bottom of this
from the court du Putts. This
are the other two towers. On the
feparates
much
it,
it
terraces,
fometimes
The Bastille.
FRANCE.
Sect. IV.
by
On
a guard.
this
In the corps de
days of rejoicing.
is
that tower
is
clofets, in
Near
Sec.
it
to hear mafs,
be feen.
fee nor
The dungeons
at the
In the
refides.
is
logis is
offices,
laid
fome ftraw
and
to lay
" Of
which are
They
are
cages of iron.
There
The windows,
another.
" Almoft
in winter.
all
is
They have
the other
feet thick,
is
" A
The
ill,
prifoners
exceflive in fnmmer,.
damp.
who
is
They
dangeroufly
in the
ftoves.
by the name of
and having
free-flone.
may
number of
their
If prifoners
itv
Each
The
room.
of note are
name of
domeftios.
"
library
in the Baftilk
it.
One
of the centinels on the infide of the caftle rings a bell every hour, day and
Some
awake
this
prifon,
inculcating a reverence for the principles of a free conjlitution like our own, which
will
FOREIGN PRISONS.
i;6
Paris
n0 [ permit
xx \\\
name
of
any degree the exercife of that defpotifm, which has rendered the
in
formidable*.
Bqftille fo
gloomy manfion, an
plating this
to retreat through
the
my
of
officer
But while
caftle.
Many
it
at
was contem-
and
furprifed;
that freedom,
was forced
which
one
for
it is
the ftrid
would have
of France,
police
fuppofed that the other prifons would have been as inacceffible to a vifitant as the
And
Bajlille.
indeed
pleaded
my
firft
unfuccefsful.
it
as
of the arret
article
whom
17 17, I
Le
Petet Chdtelet
its
and
For-l'Eve'que,
in
them.
The
Hospitals.
Hofpitals
of Saint-Louis and the Hotel-Dieu for the Tick, are the two worft
They were
The
crowded,
fo
Hotel-Dieu
is
ward
and
(St. Charles)
The new
low.
that formerly
in the
my
former
vifits,
patients were
two or three
in a bed^.
"for
if
once
it
were
left in
the
"
foon be an end of
"
||
were
all
(as in
'*
les
bulle
Unigcmtus."
'*
porteront."
One
removed
is
||)
there
whomwould
les
noirs
cachots
fire
que par
Book
I.
Chap.
1.
as follows.
article
Commentaries,
"
by the crown
daily pra&ifed
have been aflured upon good authority, that, during the mild adminifl ration of cardinal Fleury, above 54,000 httres de cachet
iflued,
dejireront
it is
f The
"
France
is
to imprifon arbitrarily
les
des
fur
charites
le
dam
les
les
aumones
tie
les
Over one of
is
from
its
application to
"
C'ejl icy la
Mai/on de Dieu,
et
Id Porte
du del,'"
The
FRANCE.
Sect. IV.
There
The
They were
is
is
a confiderable afcent to
dirty
and
lifts I
procured
noify,
and
at
in
my
many
vifits in
May
6,
1709,
16,
1707,
20,
i657>
21,
1708,
received in 1782,
21484,
Number
3899*
Died
Though
two
thefe
hofpitals
St. Louis.
662.
694.
660.
661.
3898.
899-
it
has
it
country
this
information.
The
Hofpital of
La
men,
Charite for
is
a half wide.
lie fingle
a bed
twelve thoufand
is
may be
attention
made
lately
is
There
in Paris.
are
now
is
The
is
as
livres,
Here
is
de Dieu
it
may
This
hofpital does
honour
the friars
fhur.
fraternity has alfo the charge
This
They
the infane.
The
the
are allowed
viz. at
fix,
nine^
in the
number of
beds
is
The
a
Adjoining
(who continue here only eight days) have four meals a day,
patients
is
fmall houfes for the aged and infirm of both fexes, and fingle
Here
new room
rooms
is
for
My
rooms
learned friend Dr. Price will be pleafed to find feme alteration for the ^better in the Hotel-Dieu, for
number
ffLjments, vol.
I.
/>.
296. 4th
fifth
edit.
Rooms
FOREIGN PRISONS.
78
Rooms
Paris
Hospitals.
in the hofpital
and beds
p Qor
j-Jomeftics an(j
in the lick
as
afylums
fr encJ s#
j:
feventy
by fourteen of the
are attended
It has
beds for
The
fillers.
men's wards
medical
but
my
In the Hopital des Incurables there are about four hundred perfons, molt of them aged
the
cleanfed
green woollen,
The
this hofpital.
hundred
The
vingts.
it is
in
fummer white
linen
the houfe
pleafant garden.
five
Quinze-
the
livres,
is
now
by an arret of March
14, 1783.
a day
twenty-two
fous
two fous
is
They
married,
or twenty-three years,
month.
for firing
1260
beg
to
for the
accommodation of three
in the
three
twenty-fix
pounds of
fait
who have
families increafe
now
thofe
thefe
fettled
;
The
on them
fingle perfons,
Wood
befides
fum
is
the
and
fous
thirty-fix
Every indulgence
is
alfo
to apprenticefhips.
means of
their
by keeping
fubfiftence
The
mops.
are
and
whom
Several
forty of
lately, in
'
filters,
then thoroughly
is
into a fpacious
little
regulations
diforderly.
An
infirmary
is
them.
An
the eyes.
fervice
FoundHospital.
At
annual fum
This
hofpital
week
is
a privileged place
it
to
on diforders of
in
which divine
conftantly performed.
is
the Foundllng-hofpital near the Hotel-Dieu, the infants lie in neat cradles with white
furniture
May
fifty,
are fent into the country foon after they are received.
five
is
Salpetriere,
and the
reft
when they
They remain
moft of the
St.
girls
is,
are placed at
Antoine; in which
there were at this time four hundred and fifty boys and girls. I learned
that they
in the country
laft
place
from the
lifts
FRANCE.
Sect. IV.
179
which are made out every month, that the whole number of foundlings on
lifts
foundation on the
May
of
ift
feven.
Thefe
at Paris.
alfo
faw
little
who
to be fo
But
relief.
city
thefe prifons
made
parliament for regulation of both are for the moft part fimilar, and were
They
year, 17 17.
are
in the
ProvInci
do not fcem
Paris.
>
fame
this
of them
articles
in the laws
of other nations;
but cannot fay whether the French arrets were compiled from them, or followed by
them
*.
The
cbaujjee," level
Yet
prifoners in dungeons
St. Jofeph
much
faw
(formerly a convent) at
their fhirts.
de
many
fick
Lyons.
them
none looked
In the nine other rooms of that gaol there were one hundred and twenty-
eight prifoners
fteps
" au raiz
at Paris.
To
at Challons,
among
it,
I fat
who
faid
he was
in
cannot leave
this
I
form of
in the
city
have feen
a crofs,
in
France.
It
as
it
is
is
The
wards thirty-two
feet wide, and twenty-five feet high ^ with apertures between the
of the floor above, and two tier of windows; in many of them two cafements.
Three rows of iron bedfteads in each ward.
Under a dome in the centre is an
joifts
oclagon
The
They
title is
The
The
is
Avec
three articles.
To
aliment of prifoners
f The
this arret
and
is
fame
le
Tarif
les
it
des droits
mribues
aufdits Geoliers.
title,
office
It contains thirty-
t!27
firft
article
be fo difpofed that
fk
health
-
ners
a* 11
**
be
that
HotelDlEU
'
FOREIGN PRISONS.
180
Lyons
*I)ibv~
There
foundlings
for the
crofs-wards are
airy,
fo
are
infane
as
feparate
all
not to be in the
remove
to thefe they
more
lains
flow hectic
againft the
excellent precaution
fo frequently
complain
*.
for which
fix
The
The
who make
apartments,
the
meals
and feem an
There
Thefe
an
is
whom
at
fitters.
purpofe there
in
are,
and thofe
recovery;
patients
and quiet.
and twelve
medicines prefcribed;
fever,
clean
foe
Thefe
refectory.
airy
to
offenfive
leaft
for lying-in-women
the
all
and
neateft
mofl:
elegantly fitted
up
plate.
Bordeaux
At
the Town-houfe in
Bordeaux
fteps there
many
who
told
me
in another
The
room
In two
On
woman.
men were
The
in the court.
win*
fixeet.
clean.
down
rjsons.
at
needle-work,
Hospital.
The
floor
great Hofpital
is
in a clofe part
of the
The women
round a quadrangle.
The wards
city.
for
men
are
on the
medical patients; one for chirurgical (blejfee), the other for thofe that are very
there were
two
in a bed.
who have
firft
This hofpital
is
kept clean, as
it
In
ill.
is
under
is
St.Omer's.
At La
new
Dunkirk.
In the prifon at
Dunkirk,
prifon, at St.
The
Omer's, the
daily allowance
is
pound
rooms by
themfelves.
was induced
to take fuch
Thoughts on Hofpito.h.
and
'<
find
he
advil'es
that
of convalefcence propofed by
my
hofpital,
from the
ingenious friend
recollection
of fomething
in his
frails."
Here
FRANCE.
Sect. IV.
ill
Jailors all
who
lay
on
ftraw, with
In three other rooms there were thirteen accommodated in a better manner, becaufe
The
fix fous
man
room was
bread, beer, and foup were good, and the beef tolerable.
The
plenty of water.
in the laft
The
The
hofpital.
it
was
In a
Each
fifteen.
fick (of
whom
there
hung up
regulations were
f and French.
in Englifh
In
*
ran/omer
is
the
till
fum
is
fimed.
f B
Rules
Article
The
I.
be obferved by
to
by
orders given
Y.
THE
all
Prifoners of
KIN.GWar
None of
much
lefs
ftrike the
in the
Kingdom of France.
the commifTary of the marines encharged with the care of the prifoners
the prifoners mail infult, threaten or
turnkey, nor any of thofe appointed to do bufinefs in the prifon, under the
penalty of incurring fuch punifhment as lhall be ordered by the commifTary of the marines, and of lofing
turn of being exchanged
nay, further, they lhall be clofe confined and deprived of one half of their food cr
pittance.
Art. II.
and
if in the
lift
makes review,
Art. III.
till
Art. IV.
make an
the commifTary
fhall
out, that
it
may
be
order to prevent the confulion that might refult from miftaking of names.
redlified, in
to
when
delivered to the commilTary there be found any error, they lhall point
damage
to the place
names
be punilhed by being
call.
it
be with intent
efcape, or otherwife purpofely and wilfully committed, the expence for repairing fuch
damage
lhall
be paid out of the food of thofe that are found guilty of the infringement, and if there be no means of difcovering the guilty perfons,
all
the prifoners lhall contribute an equal (hare out of their food to the charges of
fuch repair.
Whoever
Art. V.
after efcape
of food,
from
till
forbidden to
It is
are allowed
to take
fight,
the
common failor.
or make any riot
fhall
be flinted
as a
quarrel,
air,
in
the
the
may
require.
The
Art. VII.
lated,
and whatever
mit to
it.
Art. VIII.
The
for,
by
food
fhall
man
prifoners are to inform the commifTary of the clothes or other necefTaries they
(hall
till
he fub-
may want,
not only allow them to be provided with fuch things, but fhall alfo
Art.
Dunkirk.
Prisoners
WaR>
FOREIGN PRISONS.
Eercues.
Prisoners
Waj
Bergues I found forty-feven EngUJh pi/oners. The table of vidtualhung up here as at Dunkirk, but the provifions were not fo good. There
were twe ve on tne r P ark m this town, nine at Bourbourg, and two at Ardres, who
told me they had procured bondfmen for their fecurity.
In the prifon at
ling was
The common
Calms.
crowded
for
Prifon
room
on
my
complaining of
for coverlets.
at
on
ftraw, without
to the
this
commiffary y
he
faid,
fuppofed perfons of
may
Seven-
coverlets
Art. IX.
at
it
this defcription
England
in
and
fee if they be
portion whether in weight or meafure according to the following victualling table; and if there arife any
reafon for complaint, either of dreffing, ferving
the commiffary of
it,
who
grounded
fhall
to apprife
juftice.
Art. X.
fit
be allowed to tradefmen or
It fhall
fellers
their
fell
as
morning
in the
till
three
fpot.
Whatever prifoner
Art. XI.
that are not
of this
fit
fhall
dare by
this
means
any
letter, fhall
facility.
T A
A
Days of
the
OF V
L E
C T U
ULI N G.
Middling Beer
Week.
Bread.
or Cider.
Pot
containing
Paris meafure.
Monday
Beef.
Pounds
Pounds
Avoirdupois
Weight.
Avoirdupois
Weight.
Cheefe.
Ounces.
Ounces.
Peafe or Beans.
Pint
Half a Pound
Avoirdupois Wt.
ii
Butter.
"x
4-
Tuefday
V/ednefday
I
Thurfday
i|
7f
~<i
*4
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
7 Pots, or
14
3.
ii
1
4i
io|Qu.
or 6
"a
X
2
In fuch places where beer or cider cannot be had, there fhall be delivered to each prifoner three quarters
x>f
hammocks belonging
by twelve.
feet
to the failors
for
tiers,
were twenty-three
court of this
The
were
))
FRANCE.
Sect. IV.
**3
CAiAi^
p
OF
War.
feventy-five for
On
my
Dunkirk) were hung up, both within and without this prifon.
Many of the prifoners in this and other prifons had no change of
fame
as at
December
great ftorm of
veffels
and fome
linen,
fhipwrecked
in the
31ft, 1778.
military hofpital, to
their bread
and meat
think of confequence in
the Conftruttion and Regulation cfHofpitals, moft of which have been collected from the
obfervations I have
The
Situation
made
abroad.
diftinct
the entrance to
from twenty-five to
being fhut ( d
dows (e)
rows
more
readily
the beds
rooms and
refectories
defcent into
exercife
(m
it
(I
the beds
may be
the fire-
in each
(g)
eafily raifed or
ward a
ciftern
airy
and
plafter (f)
in fpacious receffes
air
and
two doors to each ward, one of them iron latticed (n the wards warned
once a week
hair rriattreffes
(k)
prevent
fafb.es to
a piazza
the wards
them ( b
the bedfteads iron painted, and with a fcrew, that the backs
of windows oppofite to
lowered
warm
at leaft
once a year ( 0
bath, and to
conform
the
patients wafhed at
of nicety
cleanlineis.
L
fa-J See
(c)
(e)
lfle
Milan, Utrecht.
Burgos, Bordeaux.
Regula.
Hospitals.
Construc;
of Wight.
Bologna.'
(I)
Par:-:.
( m ) Haflar, Plymouth.
(n) Bologna.
(0)
Edinburgh, Haflar.
SECTION
PRISONERS OF WAR.
SECTION
PRISONERS OF WAR
Prisoners
W hen
I vifited
my
countrymen confined
in
England.
Englifh prifoners
aflift
ENGLAND,
in
of war
as prifoners
&c.
in France,
fome of
the
and other gentlemen informed me, that they had received great complaints
commijfaries
to
V.
me
in
France, and of
On my
my
me
with
In order
feveral prifons.
Having determined
in
my
begin
confequence of two
in their
circuits
late afts
to the
of parliament
grand
obfervations
in
I fhall
1782 on
firit
thefe
in
my
whom
and
now add
narrative I
and
juries, I chofe to
tour in thofe parts where moft of the French prifoners were confined
of them, therefore,
what
my
paid peculiar
attention.
Plymouth.
not fo fpacious as thofe appropriated to the American prifoners, nor were they fo well
accommodated with
and
provifions.
The
which had
hofpital,
fifty
patients in
In the fhip Cambridge there were three hundred and ninety-fix prifoners
day, two hundred and fifty
bad
it,
was dirty
offenfive.
and too
"Tiger,
was
At my
little
fitting
up
in.
An
the
meat
for an infirmary f.
July 30, 1782, the old prifon was difufed, and there were a hundred
and eighty-feven French, two Spanifh and feven Dutch in a new prifon. This is
vifit,
iituated on
an
eminence
the wards
are fpacious
till
6th
Gw.
(twenty feet
III.
nine
inches wide),
Cap. XLIIT.
was
finifhed.
and
PRISONERS OF WAR.
Sect. V.
and there
a large area.
is
185
Prisoners
of
cartel.
windows
wards of
None of the
glazed; they had (Venetian) blinds fimilar to thofe in
in the
this
diftilleries (fee
who
May
to
1777,
27,
Aug.
Dec.
1779, Dec.
1780, May
7,
Dec. 24,
I,
this prifon,
American
eighty- two of
prifoners,
45.
31, 1782,
French
7673,
109.
25, 1782,
Spanifh
749,
12.
Dutch
634,
13.
10352
179.
7,
1783,
Died
American 1296,
1782,
Total
the
had
alfo
vifits.
Received into
From
War.
This
and the airy fituation greatly contributed to the health of the prifoners,
Of
Ply-
mouth.
at their
own
defire.
a hundred
the fmall-pox,
and
prifoners died
of their wounds.
At Bristol,
in
The wards
fifty-one
lefs
crowded than thofe of the prifon near Plymouth. There were two day-rooms, in
which many fhoe-makers, tailors, Sec. were at work an advantage which the priThere
foners at Plymouth defired, but could not obtain. The bread was good.
:
in that houfe,
prifon,
built
fifty-fix feet
tition,
on a
by
rifing
confifting
in each
Dutch
fo
Adjoining,
is
city
five
there was a
new
fifty
of the
militia.
a board,
that an
The bread
when
as
open market
is
by a
enclofed
feventy-four Spanifh,
good, and the prifoners had not that attention paid them,
in the city,
There were
prifoners.
1782,
pales.
2,
March
forty-five),
at a fmall
and
thir-
was not
three.
By Dr.
rects the
Sweden, the
is
an agreeable fcent.
In
is
til
Denmark and
Ruflia,
and
fir.
'
There
Bristol.
PRISONERS OF WAR.
i86
Win-
There were
March
Prisoners'
OF
2,
a thonfand
War.
fo
good
The wards
779.
:
as that at Briftol*.
If
made
in the prifon at
The
area large.
the health of the prifoners would have been promoted, and they
indolently lying in their
and
Winchester,
The meat and
hammocks
in the day-time; as
as
work-rooms,
at Mill-prifon.
Several prifoners were confined in the dark hole. Forty days confinement on half
allowance,
in
order to pay ten millings to thofe that apprehend them after efcapes,
at
regaining liberty."
The
Each
feet wide.
patient had a
and the furgeon paid them great attention fFeb. 26, 1782, the prifon was cleaner than at my former vifit, and there were many
cradle,
bedding and
improvements
foners
fheets;
in the
three
of pri-
The number
twenty-eight French,
The
On inquiring
which was
gaol-fever,
fatal to
many
in this
prifon.
Forton
Fort on.
On
faid,
Newjham the agent procured them good meat inftead of it. Moft
of the fix-pound loaves wanted weight.
I favv the bread weighed for a hundred and
The ftraw,. by long
forty-two prifoners, and obferved a deficiency of three pounds.
ufe,
was turned
places,
to
to clear
and
took notice of
this
offenfive, the
The
regulations were
publifhed in a former
in
the
They were
war.
t Mr. Smith
it
attention
would be an advantage
if one
is
paid to
arduous
of their
it
evidently
original
thofe
The
prifoners
this article.
in his department.
prieils
the
(two of
whom
He
were
Kcman
catholic prifoners
had
fitted
up a
little
chapel.
printed
PRISONERS OF WAR.
Sect. V.
French.
as thofe in the
be given
would be
It
will
at
Forton.
Prisoners
of
The
fame
187
them on
to paint
better,
War.
which
a board,
On
the prifoners
I referred
them
apply
the
to
and
agent,
"
pertinently replied,
* ?"
not
(if
How
red re fled)
the
to
One of them
commijfwners.
when every
that pofiible,
is
examined by the
letter is
agent
At my
vifit
November
6,
1782,
from other prifoners of war, and they had the fame allowance of bread,
There were
hundred and
hung
tions
up.
one pound
The
in the hofpital.
viz.
fifty-four
-f.
all
No
Dutch,
regula-
wanted fome
ounces of weight.
The American
Dr. Franklin.
From Lady-day
fix-pence
fhilling per
prifoners then
to
Michaelmas,
officers received
American
to
officers
Lady-day,
officers
two
officers.
this Prifon,
1777,
to
Nov.
6,
1782,
American
1200,
Died 69.
Nov.
6,
1782,
French
11720,
166.
3,
1782,
Spanifh
3028,
167.
Sept. 28,
1782,
Dutch
934,
17.
16882
419.
June
13,
11,
i779>--July
Total
at
Deal.
It
had an
(hillings
From June
mattrefles
kind allowance.
this
Received into
paid by order of
States,
full
had plenty of
weight,
ftraw.
the provifions
made my
firft
of
vifits
all
vifit
airy
The
(as
forts
I
regulations were
were
good,
hung
and the
to
their re-
be more careful in
It
if in the
fide, there
as in
the royal hcipitals at Haflar and Plymouth, which are neat and clean.
b 2
agents
Deal.
PRISONERS OF WAR.
i88
Deal
Prisoners
their
fatisfaction.
The
War.
the
wounded
leaft offenfive.
prifoners
ward, fimilar to that which the Englifh prifoners had at Dunkirk and Calais
and were
There were feventy-three in the prifon,
this ward, April 17, 1779: and twenty-eight French and three Dutch
1782, and only one fick.
humane
and
fifteen in
December
5,
Received into
From Nov.
1778,
3,
to
Dec.
8,
this Prifon,
French
1782,
-
Dutch
July
1779,
Spanifh
32,
American
13,
1.
3:63
36.
698,
Total
Of Wounds
Carlisle,
20.
Carlisle.
Died
2420,
May
Plymouth, Winchefter,
in
11.
Of
10, 1779.
8cc.
furgeon.
They were
15.
-
o.
the Scurvy I.
were
hammocks, as
Their allowance,
fix-pence a day.
On
Pembroke.
fifty-fix
French prifoners
confined.
June 1779,
in
They
in
the prifons at
Pembroke.
They had no
Ihillings
I vifited
and fix-pence
lay, in general,
There were
their allowance in
week each
alfo
without
their allowance.
fhirts.
There
for there
Here was a
court-yard, but
no water or fewer.
They had
Having no fupply of
In the two rooms of the town gaol there were twenty French prifoners.
fome
ftraw,
but
it
for
many weeks.
water in the gaol, and not being permitted, as they were at the other prifon, to fetch
hofpital, there
man
Thefe lay
in
three
PRISONERS OF WAR.
Sect. V.
three
four
or
coverlets,
meets,
but without
mattreffes
or
Prisoners
bedfteads.
At my
vifit
Two
it
by
(thirty-fix feet
one on the
rooms;
and
though there were only fix French prifoners. They had been confined to
on fliort allowance from the fourteenth of September for making an efcape.
ding was on the
floor
eighteen weeks.
offenfive,
rooms
their
The bed-
the ftraw in
The
for
No
Pembroke.
hung
regulations were
No
mould be concerned
in
prifoners of war.
Such obfervations
as thefe
who
&c.
No
policy require
fhould be
defired
office without
a falary.
In another view,
are ufually guarded
by the
inexperienced
alfo,
fire
officers.
militia,
on the
make due
inquiries
lhewn
in
The
Thefe prifons
inftances
in feveral
and reprefentations on
agent
is
too
much
though perin
awe of the
whereas an inde-
thefe occafions;
except
fifty-fix
Spaniards,
two nations.
fituated
on a
tier
fine
five
who
were
kept feparate on
Thefe were
high-,
all
eminence.
them by
all
account of the
There were
prifoners of war.
the furgeon,
thirty-fix fick,
in
fome
but
or victualling was
difcharge of the
and from the character of the new agent, had every reafon to expect all
due attention and humanity. Their meat was fine and good; the beer good; the bread
late agent;
heavy. Sep.
5,
1782, there v/ere twenty French, feven Spanilh, and feven Dutch
prifoners.
Received
Chester.
Liverpool.
PRISONERS OF WAR.
Liverpool.
r
sobers
War.
at
September
February 23,
September
5,
1779,
February
2,
1781, -- October
Liverpool*,
to
5,
78
Spanifh
1,
Total
Here,
well as at
as
pri Toners
There was
to thofe
to the
Hull.
who were
The
of thefe
articles
on
ill
affairs in
France
Li ncoln, Feb.
1,
1782,
their
fupplied
to
from
tier
of
fifty-one
agent.
One
Shrewfbury.
who had
priToners,
collection
much
confifts
Shrewfbury.
lately Tent to
and (hoes
linen,
a noble
In the Cajlle at
been taken
raw, or beds.
1782,
Hull
18.
beTides a Tupply
deftitute
Lincoln.
all failors
1436.
to
3.
1.
all
were confined,
14.
84,
1782, Dutch
8,
Died
69,
made by Dr.
day, and
chancellor of
Stlnton,
Lincoln.
Shrewsbury.
At Shrewsbury,
tne or ph an . houfe
in a large
1765
Low Diet.
if butter
is
The Scheme
Half Diet.
For
bread-pudding, or in
lieu
from the
Severn, called
for
For
drink, toaft
and water,
ptifan,
ounces of bread,
(and
or white decoclion.
Ireakfajf,
beer.
Full Diet.
Breakfajl as above,
f'or dinner, one pound of meat, one pint of broth, one pound of
Supper, in the two
lalt
mentioned
diets,
to be
of the broth
left at din-
Rice milk, orange whey, orange and lemon water, tamarind whey, vinegar whey, balm and fage tea to
be difcretionally ufed by the furgeon.
have fince heard that a bounty was paid by the court of England to their prifoners
in France,
at the
following rates, mix. captains, mates, failing mailers, furgeens, and ftevvards, three pence per day each
common
failors,
boys, and paffengers of inferior rank, three ha'fpence per day each
days.
eight
PRISONERS OF WAR.
Sect. V.
Dutch
eight
fpacious, a
191
prifoners;
At
by twenty.
feet
is
The
acre.
regulations in
all
^j^"
p RIS0NERS
War.
patients.
Many
flioes
for
fhirts;
they had not received any bounty from the States, as the French and Spanifh prifoners
had from
But by
their courts.
furgeon G6i
15
The
At Yarmouth, July
The
The
clofe.
good.
1782,
8,
there were
ninety-two Dutch
Their rooms and court, and the three rooms of the infirmary, were too
prifoners.
regulations in
and well
The
provifions were
YarKV
in
but
a few days.
At Falmouth, Feb.
6,
The
the hofpital.
whom,
in
fingle,
The
good
French,
The
no complaint.
fixteen
hofpital was
cradles,
fix
hair-beds,
fheets
The
The wards
and coverlets.
made
patients lay
were
tiled,
and
were the more airy and falutary for not being ceiled.
All prifons and hofpitals fhould be near towns, for the convenience of provifions
The Number
From
July
to
of Prifoners,
French 2669,
Died
Spanifh
185,
5.
178 r,
Dutch
302,
6.
Jan.
3,
Total 3156
Signed R.
My
been
received
feverity
37-.
12, 1779,
and had
lifts
48.
W. Fox,
Agent.
who had
and inattention
to
were afterwards checked by the books of the Commifwners of fick and wounded feamen
London,
who
readily granted
me
In
that favour.
PRISONERS
Fal-
MOUTH*
PRISONERS OF WAR.
i9 1
PRISONERS
Edin.
risoners
F
found
ftraw,
other
room they
hung
up.
lay
in
as
on mattreffes
in
hammocks.
made
'There
SCOTLAND.
in
Edinburgh,
in the caftle at
WAR
OF
complaint.
all
The
in the
at
fome
where they had bedding and meets, and great attention was paid
them by
the
In the caftle,
foners;
one hour
prifoners
city.
in a day.
doors iron-latticed.
Auguft 17,
The Number
from the
French
842,
Spanifh
108,
Dutch
Died
Aug.
17, 1782.
31.
0.
"
10,
Americans
Total
to
0.
3.
990
34.
In June 1781 there were two hundred and feventeen French prifoners landed from the Jamaica
All were fickly ; moft of them had an invetefleet, who had been fourteen weeks on their paffage.
rate fcurvy
PRISONERS OF WAR
Belfast.
ON
in
IRELAND.
the 13th of July 1779, there were feventy-feven French prifoners at Belfast,
There was no table of regulations,
there the beginning of May.
to
be
much
neglected.
Many
Sixteen of
them were
for them.
At
PRISONERS OF WAR,
Sect. V.
At Dublin,
room fitted up
good
193
Dublin.
Prisoners
of
War.
pected.
May
crew of
Dunkirk
They were
privateer.
confined
in
removed to Kilkenny.
At Kilkenny, June 9, 1782, there were a hundred and fifty-feven French*, three
Spanifh and five Dutch prifoners of war, befides eleven in the infirmary and feven-
after
They were
all
men
privateers
them.
September
Mr.
parole,
there
1782,
12,
PFatters,
The Number
1418,
Spanifh
162,
9.
9>
0.
1589
43-
Dutch
Total
copy of a
lift
as a fupplement to
- - -
.......
.......
.......
To
all
in
England, &c.
London.
LIBERTY.
34.
AT
Kings Jkips.
Died
French
per
Day
s.
D,
\\
003
003
003
002
CONFINED.
King's pips.
To
the fecond
fmiths
...
To
mafters,
fergeant
gunners
officers,
...
------They
lings
and
001
five
when
pence halfpenny
deftitute
Irijb,
MEN.
-
gun-
officers, at liberty, or
and
MERCHANT
Merchant Jhipt. Captains, at liberty, or confined
mates,
confined
*
003
002
fhi!-
AMERICAN
Kilkenny.
PRISONERS OF WAR.
J94
AMERICAN PRISONERS.
p LY .
mouth.
American
Prisoners.
In
near
Mill-prifon
Plymouth,
American
on the 3d of February 1779. Their wards and court were fpacious and
On July 30, 1782, there were
convenient, and their bread, beer, and meat good.
prifoners
Forton.
I
accommodated
at
2,
equally well
Forton
1
779.
The table of regulations was almoft the fame with that for the French prifoners.
The principal difference was, that in the victualling table, the bread allowance was
The meagre day was Saturday ; and againfl the weekly
then only one pound a day.
The regulation,
article of two pints of peafe, was added, " or greens in lieu."
" As water and tubs for warning their linen and
Art. 5. is well worth copying.
" cloaths, will be allowed, the prifoners are advifed to keep their perfons as clean as
"
poflible,
it
At Pembroke, June
Pembroke.
American
no
5,
Some
prifoners.
of
regulations
They
lay
or feven weeks.
fix
on flraw on the
By
liberal
floor,
and
fubferiptions,
their
ft
the allow-
entirely overlooked.
In a houfe appropriated for an hofpital, in which were fome Englilh failors and
French prifoners,
found
American
alfo three
this
the
accommodated.
latter,
at
Pem-
At
my
1782, the Americans were with the other prifoners of war, and had an allow-
States-,
as I
mentioned
of the CommiJJioners,
who
it
will
at
many
themfelves vifked
infor-
their care.
SECTION
SCOTLAND.
Sect. VI.
SECTION
SCOTCH
and
195
VI!
PRISONS.
IRISH
The
Jedburgh, Had-
Stirling,
dington, Ayr, Kelfo, Nairne, Bamff, Invernefs, &c. were old buildings, dirty and
and
him within
purpofe, with at
-Jeaft
By the procefs of
without water.
alfo generally
is
to maintain
pence.
ing a furrender of
all
his
among
be divided
effects to
may be
ment of
thofe debts.
in prifon,
Perjury
words
is
after
"
great day of
"
fo
by
far
the
The
judge
in
"
to believe
Scotland.
By God
judgment, you
The
he
that
"
be afked
at
truth,
you."
circuit-courts
By
f See the
aft
of king William's
Principles of the
X Loulhiaiis
Form of
Law
he
his debtor
form of adminiftering
firft
parliament,
it,
The
1696, fixth
of Judiciary
c 2
at
the
truth, in
It
is
enacted by the
in every
God
fhall
if
fhall
the
mak-
ailing fraudulently.
is
though
witnefs,
you know, or
as
clerk,
20th of Geo.
"
good reafon
not frequent
the
unlefs he has
folemn.
are very
creditors
his
fix-
may
ceffio
feffion,
Chap. XXXII.
Edinburgh,
in Scotland.
3.
"
mall
Scotland.
SCOTLAND.
ig6
Scotland.
"
fhall
"
There
days
fix
at leaft,
are in
adminiftered, and
trials
this
am
and partly
to the fliame
and
which oaths are
in
minijlers
-f.
Efq.
for
an account,
a table at the
and a
owing
manner
partly
is
May
at
it
will
1782, which
fhall
be inferted
half, there
fuch delays being often equally injurious to the criminal and to fociety.
Here, the
* This
good
aft
is
fimilar to
" That
Chap. XXVI.
one enafted for the counties of Wales in 34th and 39th of Henry VIII.
feffions fhall
"
of North Wales."
It
That
land,
provided by
is
ftatute
and
eftablifhed,
of
is
Many
to.
chriftian
knowledge
fo that
no parijh
is
fix
days in
1696, Chap.
XXVI.
this aft,
parliament,
attended
It is
his
%.
five.
In the
very rare that you meet with any perfon that cannot both read and write.
it is
is
fchools.
By
the aft
made
in
king William's
execution in
feffion,
and the
**
after fentence."
Execution, which
The
all
is
hereby
nth
Statute of the
puniihmer.ts that
[
firft
;
This
amount neither
to death nor
demembration
ftatute
left
fide
is
to
of Geo.
the difcretion of
Chap.
I.
XXVI.
all
punilhments to be inflicled after eight days on the fouth fide of the river Forth, and twelve days on the
north fide of the river Forth.
This alteration
is
made by
to
ft
courts for thirty days, upon caufe fhevvn, that fuch application
II.
Chap.
The
ftatute
XXXVII. which
3d of Geo.
II.
Chap. XXXII.
of the
nth of
enatts, that
may be made
Geo.
I.
is
for
in inferiour
redrefs as
may be
murderers in England
fhall
be executed
All
SCOTLAND.
Sect. VI.
fee
Women
are not
Edinburgh*,
In the Tolbooth at
;
and
in the Canongate
Scotland.
in irons in Scotland.
nine felons
and
and whew
197
here give the table of fees from the Tolbooth in this city, which
in Scotland,
ACT
COUNCIL
of
is
regulating the fees payable to the jailor and clerk of the Tolbooth of Edinburgh.
council,
bailies,
crafts,
Lord Provoft,
the
into confideration the prefent ftate of their Tolbooth, and particularly the fees that have been in ufe to
be exacted by the jailor and clerk of the faid prifon, both from creditors at incarceration of prifoners,
and judging
it
fhould for the future be publicly afcertained by authority of the council for the benefit of
all
concerned
therefore the council do tax and fettle the fame as follows, viz.
Fees
The
payable to the
for each
liberation
pound
and
fum of money
Scots,
this in place
fterling
Jailor.
fhall
pay
at incarceration
fterling
in ufe to
at
money.
liberation as relief
Scots.
.
Each perfon imprifoned
Item,
Item,
The
The
Item,
The
above
is
above
pay
-
fhall
D.
-068
-034
of
pay
-
300
of peace,
fhall
pay
at incarceration
Iioo
The
s.
pay to
at incarceration
Item,
is
Item,
what
being a burgefs,
fhall
pay
-1100
and declares when any gentleman or other perfon fhall be incarcerate in the
defire to have a room in the prifon by him or herfelf, fuch perfons fhall be liable for
council ordains
Tolbooth, and
fhall
room to pay to the jailor ten millings fterling weekly in place of prifon fees, or
fuch as they and the jailor fhall agree, but not to exceed ten fhillings.
That
all
as prifoners
fliall
arife
prifoners
be liable to pay the under-keepers, and the woman who cleans the houfe
do before the act of council the 17th day of July 1728 ; but if any difpute
thereanent, the magiftrates for the time being fhall have the full power of determining the
were
fhall
in ufe to
fame.
Fees
Edinburgh.
SCOTL
198
Edineurgh.
offenfive rooms,
AND.
March
fleep.
Tolbooth, four debtors and twenty-three criminals; in the Canongate, two debtors
and
I will
only juft mention the clofe confinement of poor * criminals in the Tolbooth,
room known by
Fees
payable to the
that
Clerk
of
Tolbooth.
the
Scots.
Imprimis,
women.
pay
his liberation
(hall at
Item, Each perfon incarcerate by warrant from fheriff orjuftice of the peace,
tion
pay
pay each
fhall
0120
200
-060
carcerate
(all
paid
pay
warrants at or within
magistrates
-
ad
060
pay
fhall at libera-
at liberation
D.
S.
0120
incarcerated or arrefted
for
a fum or fums
fhall
pay
at
mercks excepted)
ten
or below
at
be
fhall
040
120
Scots,
more.
Item? All perfons incarcerate for exhibition of papers, or for implementing of writs (captions for reproduction of proceifes
civil
debt or otherwife
fhall
iioa
be free of
all
And
and declares,
the jailor or clerk of their Tolbooth, other than thefe above fet
their refpedtive offices
and ordain
their prefents to
down, they
fhall
may
pretend igno-
rance.
And
own
office,
and
Scots,
affix
a copy
toties quoties.
by me William
Day of
July, Seventeen
Thefe do
certify
is
faid Tolbooth
and
me
as clerk thereof
are governed.
William
feme,
who were
money have
too
much
liberty.
For
in
as they
promoted
Gilles.
I lately
faw
profligate
Mr.
SCOTLAND.
Sect. VI.
Mr.
was ufing
P
Stauzrt
his beft
and ftand
exceed
it
and
in airinefs
The
1770
is
England
hofpitals in
inclufive,
to
Few
Edinburgh.
The
admitted, from
at
which fhould be
airy fituation.
Great attention
cleanlinefs.
more
in a
built,
199
was
EdinBURCH.
is
FIR-
MA R Y
his
number
In 1776
as
JN
1775
and 1777, the proportion was nearly as one to twenty-nine. The total number of patients admitted in 1780 was two thoufand two hundred and twenty-eight, of whom
feventy-fix died: the number in 1781 was two thoufand two hundred and fix, of
whom
it
Dr. John Hope, the firft phyfician in this hofpital (who lives
and gives unremitting attendance) informed me, that two or three years
feventy-four died
very near
it ;
the infection, and that this falutary practice had been continued ever fince
The
mending
knitting,
Every
prentices.
The
fixty
girls
&x.
their clothes,
to fuch habits as
Mr. Tod,
who appeared
*".
which
in
1782,
in
clothed,
decently
OrphanHospiTAL
'
work
fpinning,
may
tend to
commendation,
girls,
are
and formed
religion,
particular
and
boys
and healthy.
fpinning, knitting,
is
deferves
Orphan-hofpital alfo
The maintenance,
and ap-.
fervants
he. for
er.ch child,
and zeal with which he endeavours to promote the ufefulnefs and credit of
this
hofpital f.
In the Tolbooth
criminals
and
at
Glasgow,
clothed: in September 1782, there were eighteen debtors and five criminals in the
Tolbooth %,
houfe of corretllon.
The
*
See page
30
On my
Haflar hofpital in
vifit at
November 1782,
to
hear that
my
COPY
as
of the
Fees
appointed
by
me
and
A&
acknowledgments
Regulations
to the magiftrates
this city.
to be exacled
Town
and obferved
in the
Council of Glafgow,
Tillootb at Glafgow
dated the
31ft
of
Auguft, 1769.
Sterling.
I.
lhall,
And
every perfon not a burgefs, mall pay for jaylor fee, during his or her confinement,
D.
S.
2.
Every
002
004
Glasgow/
;;
SCOTLAND.
2 00
The Number
Debtors.
Edinburgh Tolbooth
*3>
22.
3,
2.
O.
Canongate
Dumfries
-
Perth
4.
3-
Aberdeen
8,
6.
Invernefs
3>
5-
Sterling.
2.
And
1 ft
of peace, or a
IherifF, fhall
S.
D.
4f
The
And
jaylor,
pay
article, if
ft
a burgefs, pay
-
on figning an
atteftation of a
fhall receive
commitment,
029}
056}
o
Ru les
It
If an unfreeman,
4.
article
fliall
juftice
3.
in
warning,
act of
The
to
by himfelf or any of
010
his fervants.
demand
or indirectly,
or
receive
in his or in
any fums of money under the name of entry money, garnifhing, or any other denomination, feparate
fees
ftipulated
as
above.
foever.
2.
The
ift
of April to
ift
October to the
hour
ift
open
it
And
the jaylor
is
at eleven before
of April, he
fhall
after
it
fhall
and fhut
it
open
it
noon, and
fhitf it
And from
and fhut
it
at
it
ift
of
half an
be fhut during publick worfhip, any thing in this rule to the contrary.
own
cuftody while
it is
fhut up,
and
The
3.
jaylor, every
perfonally
vifit
and
at
all
he
and
fhall
4.
fhall
may
one ano-
his duty,
The
in to any
and
in
prifon, fhall
attempts to cut the iron ftanchers, or to break through the ftone walls,
and he
up the
every room and place therein, carefully infpect the windows, chimnies, and walls thereof,
of the
in
fell,
or fuffer to be brought
The
SCOTLAND,
Sect. VI.
It
At Dumfries
the court-houfe
in
all
I will, therefore,
i vifited.
201
is
room
Dumfries;
inches by eleven feet three) with clofets and a fire-place, where a debtor that finds bail
The gaol in this town was burnt by a
has the key, and may converfe at the door.
To
prifoner
rooms
prevent
in
it
have been
vaulted.
The
like accident
and clean
prifon, the
The Tolbooth
prifon that
and a half
floor
of which
Inverness has no
at
have feen
I
:
upper
in
Scotland
now very
window
is
twenty inches by
for a prifon.
of a few
fteps
feet fix,
and
more
and two
room
to the
On
feet
is
Inverness.
for debtors
and
Aberdeen,
fixteen feet
is
a half fquare,
and only
by fourteen
fix feet
and a
fix.)
at Invernefs, there
in
a vaulted
is
my late
Near
vifit.
Aberdeen.
at
and
fire-place,
(The room
*.
a neat
of the Tolbooth
floor
is
is
room intended
down from
it,
juft mentioned,
which
is
but had
built,
is
a defcent
the fides there are a ftone feat, a finall window, and two
The
5.
diforderly perfons,
and prevent,
as
much
as
poflible,
befl
their
affociating
all
fupport.
6. In order to
in the
7.
make
all filth
and
week.
The
as above, or in the
from
the prifon
and clean
his
office,
or
of
his
exacting,
by
or his
himfelf,
the magiilrates,
for
fervants,
or inftruftions
more
fees
forefaid,
than ftipulated
fhall
be difmiffed
proper.
recommended
is
to
;
Scots.
As
this is
recommend
the
circmVtown
the ereflion of a
new
gaol.
A regard to
of Scotland),
room
in
which
purpoie.
'
The
IRELAND.
202
Scotland.
prifons in Scotland.
they
are
money
in
too
little
attention
of which
confequence
the
the
to the prifoners,
whijkey inftead of
in
it
paid
of the
county allowance
the
that
is,
is
fale
bread.
" We do not think it poflible, that a nation can attain to improvement in fcience,
" to refinement of tafte, and in manners, without, at the fame time, acquiring a
u refinement in their ideas of juftice, and feelings of humanity
f."
Dublin
New
Prison.
was happy
in finding
at
Dublin
in
1779, 3
New
D J.
removal of the prifoners into more airy and convenient apartments, in which I hoped
the (hocking intercourfe of the two fexes which took place in the old prifon, would
be avoided.
is
The
cells
on the
firft
and fecond
be ufed, except
at the
to
at
fire |.
all
floors are
about
It
might be
top of the houfe into an infirmary; for the fick rooms are too fmall, and likely
produce infection*
* The original caufe of this feems to have been the following very fevere maxim in the Scotch law.
" After a debtor is imprifoned, he ought not to be indulged the benefit of the air, not even under a guard;
" for creditors have an intereft, that their debtors be kept under clofe confinement, that, by the fqualcr
"
careen's,
of Scotland,
they
may
5 th edit. p.
f Hug Amors
J
that
neceffary for
it is
execution, as
||
It
it is
Ad
SefT. 14.
The
June 1671.
Principles of the
Law
461.
me
many
commendable
in,
of
this
work,
is
am
forry, however,,
as defective in point of
theory.
if the
in London
NeTgate.
la
IRELAND.
Sect. VI.
from becoming
Newgate
beginning of the
in the
be, that
is,
the clerk
is
it,
fame time,
It
How
furprifing
||
The
their allowance
for
it,
of bread
they have
till
gaoler and
fheriff,
fometimes
are
to
injuftice
!.
prifoners
night or twof.
that any
that the
may
could be
cages
though amounting
a particular aggravation of
forty fhillings
p^^i
reafon of this
confinement
in
turnkey
may
One
Another reafon
at the
Dublin
them
well
this
in
called fo, in
is
and clean-
It
air
the ftaircafes, cells and vaults, and in the narrow paffages, to prevent
in
linefs
paffages are three feet and a half wide, and :he ftaircafes only two feet one inch.
be an exception, that in a lioufe adjoining to old Newgate called the black dog, there were feveral
fnes, Sec. and that in another houfe (a fort of bridewell adjoining to the work-houfe in Dublin)
found in
1779 eleven young creatures ; fome of thefe for fmall offences were confined with outrageous lunatics. The
magiftrates feem to have overlooked a companionate direction in an adl of their legiflature (fee 3d of Geo. III.
Chap. XXVIII.) u
go
are not to
in
common with
the
other prifoners.
t
There
who
is
be acquitted
fliall
"
"
they are or
*'
and clerks of the peace, for fuch fees," by a prefentment on the refpe&ive counties.
(hall
it,
town."
3d Geo.
and
five
alfo the
pounds
if
it
But many
The
fees
Gaoler
Turnkey
N. B. One milling
fum prefented
it
by an
aft
affr/e
mult not
Englijh
is
"
2 Irijb.
079
-079
-
*'
receive the priioners allowance of bread, during the time of his or her faid confinement
this
and amending
any of
fhall, after
one
at
"
"
"
that are
III.
||
made by
of the crown,
having been tried for fuch offence and acquitted thereof, be confined for
and
his or
if fuch perfon
fuch perfon fo confined fhall be in like manner intitled to the like allowance." This however being the
kit claufe in the aft, has efcaped the attention, as Sir Francis Hutcbinfon juftly obferved to me, of the
piler
com-
d 2
here
IRELAND.
204
Dublin
here
Fkison.
^ e discharged.
Lord
In 1779
common
But
fees.
to find that
At Kilmainham
their fees
in the
who feemed
alfo I
At both
dungeons.
me
fifteen
lift
Some had
fheriffs
many months,
wonder
as thofe
But
had no more
this diftrefs
fheriffs
In 1782, a
bill
was brought
of
XLI.)
then
in
fame purpofe
be pafTed.
On
the
this
will
in
who were
recruiting
offenders
profligacy
regiments waiting
at
of
this
fet
officers
from
any of their
to enlift, or
the doors
When
afibciates.
of people
the exceffive
confidered,
is
moft
the
in
a war.
Our
Englifh prifons have alfo contributed their fhare towards recruiting the army,
but that
if it
tion
from the
this
effects
of their
late falutary
their
releafe
from confine-
difeafes
ftate,
it
If
would have
feamen and
foldiers.
fnall
always reflett with pleafure on the unexpe&ed honour which at this time was done
College, by prefenting
me
me by
the
Do&or of Laws.
in
new
raifed re?iment,
which
faw in Scotland in
There
IRELAND.
Sect. VI.
There
is
new Marjhaljea
the infcription,
July
3,
The
prifon in Dublin.
1775. At my
is
by
firft
*.
1779, here were about fixty prifoners
Many
a very old building, there were fifty-five debtors.
vifit in
Dublin
Marshal^
SKA.
debtors in this and the other prifons, being not alimented, are objefts of compaffion.
are relieved
London.
wifh however to
recommend
Such
at
Dublin, fimilar to
highdt
mifcries
have been long hid from the eyes of the public) who, though they feem to deferve
need
it
ftate
of
improvements
my
in
At
the houfcr, infirmary, and cells for the lunatics were quite clean, and the
laft vifits,
were compelled.
Anguft
2,
owing to the
chiefly
daily inflection
came
fixty
March
rotation.
in
is
forty.
There
1
is
an Irifh at for preferring the health of prifoners, paffed in the 17th and
But
which
is
it
in
XXVIII.
many
is
become
There
be tranfported."
liable to
young men,
their cries
probably reached the Irifh fhore, and prevented any proceedings in confequence of that
ad.
In 1782,
Commons had
which
(nth
**
XVI.
and deliver up
to difcover,
/. 986)
and
f This differs from the Englifh, aft in one important circumftance. The Englifh aft requires " the walls
" and cielings of the feveral cells and wards, both of the debtors and the felons, and alfo of any other rooms
" ufed by the prifoners in their refpeftive gaols and prifons, where felons are ufually confined, to be fcraped
the claufe
cells,
1
''
is
have known
it
Irijh
;
for
warning and keeping clean the prifons in England where only debtors or petty offenders have been confined,
that, they were not obliged to it by the aft of parliament.
this
House
D
USTRY.
IRELAND.
206
Dublin,
purpofe.
this
To
this
Committee
in
Dublin*.
New
Prison.
p rym
tn ink particularly
Dublin
in
ftone
There
confined in idlenefs
The dungeons
the day-rooms
my
At
vifit in
There
is
j-
Old Newgate
New comers
The proper
47
floors are
City-Bridewell
30
The Number
as follows.
Men.
Women.
82
42
15
15
21
15
00
00
11
00
Debtors.
20
18
130
o
o
o
Kilmainham
4
o
14]]
Four-court Marfhalfea
City Marfhalfea
61
City-Bridewell
||
committed
Criminals.
Women.
149
City Marfhalfea
In
as are
-.30
-20
Four-court Marfhalfea
Jiilmainham
abandoned crimi-
Prifon
mod
Such
Men.
The New
The pumps
no proper feparation
is
from the
Debtors.
In
and abufed
It is
or of petty offenders
The
1783.
is
in
worth mentioning.
No
25
thru
years.
is
fold in
three halfpence or two pence, and half a pint for three pence or four pence.
mon
liquor of prifoners
clafs
of people,
who
are
Dublin fo cheap as
This makes
often intoxicated
by
it
it
the
com-
almolt to
madnefs.
J Garnifh
is
whom
it.
The day-room on
women's fide was always fhut up. At my laft vifit the condemned criminals were
and the women's day-room was kept locked, for two or three felons who lodged in
the deputy keeper's rooms to play in at tennis and other diverfions.
in the
men's day-room
the
are
IRELAND.
Sect. VI.
207
condemned The
them* No bathf No divine fervice The keeper does not refide in the prifonThe act for preferving the health of prifoners not
Criminals are made turnkeys
are
to
of
table
or orders
rules
fees,
The
allowance, two-pennyworth of
bread a day; but being delivered only twice a week, and not fixed by weight,
To
this
foi
||.
little
confequence, while the meriffs and magiftrates neglect their duty, and fcldom or never
infpect the gaols or punifh defaulters.
Mod of the
this gaol at
many of the
county gaols.
I
enumerate thefe particulars, not with a view of aggravating the idea of inattention
country ( which
is
are required to give in charge to the grand juries the two acts, one for the better pre-
venting the feverities and unjuft exactions practifed by gaolers againft their prifoners, &c.
(3d
and
Geo.
1
III.)
in
gaol,
&c. (17th
8th Geo. III.) and the judges are further required to examine into the ftate and
Two
who
fick
lay
was forry
Commons
in
on the ftone-floors
to attend
them
to the
fine
new
on
prifon,
totally neglefted.
;
f The only building defigned for a bath which I faw in the gaols in Ireland, was in the court yard at
Trim, June 17, 1782. I looked into it, and found it was the gaoler's pig-fly.
J
||
The
This prifon
Twopenny
loaf,
Fourpenny,
Hoitjkold
Fourpenny,
Sixpenny,
is
7g2.
Auguft 4, 1783.
lb.
White bread.
is
oZ.
lb.
White bread.
10
HouJJjold
ox.
dr.
11
Fourpenny,
Fourpenny,
Twopenny
Sixpenny,
loaf,
the
Dublin
yi\i7on.
IRELAND.
203
Dublin,
the county not exceeding five hundred pounds for neglect of repairing and enlarging
fb'ch gaols.
every
to
CharterbcHooLo.
falling
The
Having taken
at the
His lordfhip
fherifF.
which
in
left
Urate
be
introduced a
alio
criminals
hanging.
Their number
them
vifiting
which
is
carried with
me
added an account of
is
them with
children.
178
In
fociety, (to
1, at
fociety.
In the two fchools near Dublin, that at Clontarf-Strand for boys, and at Santry
for girls,
was greatly furprifed to find but forty-fix in the former, and thirty-four
girls.
numbers given
in
the latter
Thefe fchools
managed by
are
falfe
committee of
them
numbers feem
lefs
fifteen,
who meet
to be delivered
to be given
in
fome of
in
to about feven
the deficient
in
pulpit
of their
from the
ftated.
mailers of thefe fchools hold a certain quantity of land belonging to the fociety,
The
for
which they pay no higher rent than was paid when the ground was originally
Every mafter
granted.
diet,
.1:5:0
was
is
allowed a falary of
3:2:6)
11
and contracts
Irijh;
fo
low
annual clothing
(viz.
I vifited
in Ireland, rather
committee
If the
demand
May
much more
as
found
in
than a large
credit
them.
In fhort
thefe fchools
be allowed to hint, that there mould be one plain decent uniform for
* See the
f There
is
laft
Clean
linen twice a
week
all
A convenient
bath-
IRELAND.
Sect. VI.
bath
2cy
larger allowance to the mailers* for diet, and for wafting, fire and ca idles
Rooms
Charter-
each houfe
DiftincT:
for play
The
Dublin put on
The
if
bed-room
fituated fo as to
That
check fhould
be kept on the local committees by the occasional infpeclion of one of the committee
of
fifteen,
That the
That premiums
hung up
rules
every encouragement fhould be given to the molt cleanly and diligent children
and
and
And the
be
in
affiftance,
&c
and,
more
it
found that
rally
in fchools fo fituated,
Dublin
more
will
be abfolutely
Many
of the hofpitals
in
Dublin may
is
its
Stephens's, Simp/on
Before
it.
the Military,
are
crowded
is
"
"
and
The governors of
One pane in each
fituated in
(which
it is
word
in
favour of
is
"
"
In the Blue-coat
vifit in
their Hofpital
in
by
my
who
rules,
have gene-
St. Patrick's
s,
falutary contrivance.
of
diftance.
new and
fome miles
fruitlefs.
Hofpital, the
from the
all
faid,
"
trifled,
For
of the
thefe reafons,
and
confidering the advanced price of provifions in every part of the country, as well as the importance of
placing their fchool-mafters in a fituation above want, the fociety anxioufly wifh that every fchool-maftcr
in their fervice fhall
was not
who were
have
their yearly
at the nurfery at
fakry increaled."
Monivae
in
Connaught
I
in
my
provincial nurferies, on being informed at one of the beft fchools, that near
number of boys)
that
it
at erfor d,
(which had
fince
its
full
parents
SECTION
Dublin
HospITALS
ENGLISH PRISONS.
210
SECTION
VII.
PARTICULAR ACCOUNT
ENGLISH PRISONS.
OF
>
my
readers, I
terms
begin with an
fliall
explanation of them.
In the
firft
city,
of the Gaoler or
article
keeper's
emolument is Fees by which are meant fuch only as are taken by him and his fervants
on the admiffion or difcharge of a prifoner. The fums fet down againft this article are
from the beft information I could procure in my repeated journies
but they differ
;
The
is
The fum
Tranfports.
fet
4th George
"
I.
and 8th of
fo contracting
(hall
demand
down
them
it is
what (from
is
to this,
The
perfon or perfons
of the
faid offenders
With
at
In thefe cafes
Under
gaols
meant
on
fell
beer,
places, as
is
Carlifle,
permitted, by
their vifiters.
Prifoners in the
my
fome
Yarmouth, Colchefter,
city,
different vifits
to include
is
found
in the refpective
till
chiefly
viz. fines
they pay a
and
and
petty offenders.
fum of money,
a fine:
county-
The &c.
By
is
fines
fuch as are
term to mere confinement, or (which is much the fame) to hard labour. Of thefe
latter fome have been previoufly whipped, or burnt in the hand.
The petty offenders are
fuch as are fent to gaols inftead of bridewells, for reafons mentioned in a former fection.
Thefe
alfo in
deferters,
which
fome gaols
I
are
called fines.
Wherever
ENGLISH PRISONS.
Sect. VII.
Wherever
copies of
literal
them
Where no mention
none hung up
fome of them
in
For
form to be found
prefTion, or defects of
ufelefs repetitions, I
am
as I
is
in that prifon.
rules
lifts
and orders of
of benefactions and
are
it
the
defect *.
down
number of
before the
dungeon with
prifoners.
memorandum book
in
my
hand, in which
foot.
My
relate
will
of gaols
ftate
and
defcription will to
dates fet
cell,
but
By
chofe rather to
thefe,
and magiftrates
the kgiflature
will be able to
judge whether the prifons over which they prefide, and to which they commit offenders,
be
fit
may
defcriptions
poffibly
hereafter be erected
any
to anfwer.
may
fince whatever
might add,
in the plans
that a variety
of fuch prifons
may
of
may
be extracted from
f.
have here and there taken the liberty of pointing out what feemed to me,
as
and hope
as I
But
me.
ftrike
As
in
my
had been
that the
firft
edition, I
in
fo I
cleanlinefs,
much
ftate
altered for
in
fome
fatisfadtion
to remark,
it
my
me
as to
duty before to
infert.
* It
down
mould be obferved,
in a table figned
pounds
that
by the
by
jufticcs,
in the prifon
demand
fuch
demand
is
illegal,
is liable
affize,
and
juftices,
to a penalty
of
fifty
My
minutenefs with refpeel to meafurements and other circumftances relating to the conftruftion and
government of
eftabhfhments,
many
who
new
THE
LONDON.
ail
THE
The
Tower
of rank.
who
The
is
TOWER.
and the only prifon
a ftrong fortrefs,
care of
it is
committed to an
him a lieutenant, a
among whom are forty
yeomen of
England
of the Tower,
has under
other officers,
in
is
the guards.
governor
may
in any
of which,
fined
and the cuftom has been to affign them two of the beft rooms on the
as the
is
committed
but
to clofe confinement
when
in
1,
floor:
Sometimes they
are
a warder.
my
vifit in
17795 and
September
be con-
firft
ment
many
feldom accept
this allowance.
the
laft,
who went
ftore-houfes
artillery
and arms*
NEWGATE.
LONDON.
Sect. VII.
NEWGATE,
GAOLER,
Newgate.
Richard Akerman.
200.
Salary,
Debtors,
Fees,
Felons,
o
o
Mifdemeanors or Fines,
Tranfports,
10.
18
10.
"14
10.
14
10.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance,
Debtors,
Felons,
Debtors,
Garnifti,
Felons &c.
Number,
March
6.
Debtors.
I779,
I9O.
Au g-
l6 >
i,
3*>
29.
3>
29I.
17,
46,
212.
ii3.
224.
Dec. 26,
33>
152.
Rev. Mr.
Villette.
Duty,
Salary,
once
Mr.
THE
month facrament.
builders of
(See Remarks.)
Olney.
Salary,
all
prifoners.
it
readers, than
avoided in
as a
this
out particulars.
it
All
will be in great
but
it
has
The
The
city
Many
to the
had therefore
my
fome manifeft
that without
Remarks.
were fo
model to be followed.
new one
cells
in
141.
33>
May
SURGEON,
Felons &e.
5,
i776>
CHAPLAIN,
Felons &c.
Debtois.
1775'
( See Remarks.)
loaf.
6.
errors.
It
is
now
Tha
LONDON.
The
Newgate.
built
cells
Old Newgate
in
ftill
are
upon each of
on
all
lined
The
near 3 feet by
grated,
round each
all
darkfome
The
chapel
the felons
that for
prefence
towards
is
at the
when brought
in
Below
the centre
is
is
On
condemned.
for the
each fide
is
pews
a gallery
the chapel.
Mr.
who were
the prifoners
in
Surely they
the court.
Villette
prefent,
the greater
far
flied tears,
folitary abodes.
that
is
In each cell
trial,
was told by thofe who attended them, that criminals who had
air
The
cell
a barrack-bedftead.
affe&ed an
by
firft
little
for
Thofe
are
There
(9! by 6) on account of the fet-ofF in the wall; and the five uppermoft, ftill a
fame reafon. In the upper part of each ceil, is a window double
larger
is
condemned malefa&ors,
I fhall therefore
who
feemed attentive
their
in
but we were
will not
divine fervice, and not fufFered to hinder the edification of fuch as are better difpofed.
The
Chaplain (or ordinary ) befides his falary, has a houfe in Newgate-ftreet, clear of
of
St.
Bartholomew's
commonly
fold for
25
fheriffs
/6
a year;
a year;
and
lately
Now
10
hofpital,
pay him
'
12:0.
He
is
fix
months
augmented
to
living.
Debtors have
inquired for a
was authentic.
tions
London
fines
eight ftone.
lift
The amount
of
it
is
^52
me
a year.
There
five
dozen
of bread*.
*
at
After the
my
hit
irifit
riots in
7 8o
New-Prifon: but
To
LONDON.
Sect. VII.
To
215
left
cc
"
words
in thefe
"
after
*c
give ear and underfland that tomorrow morning the greater!: bell of St. Sepulchre's
"
fhall toll
many mercies
for
you
Here
ancient
in
"
What
torture,
though now
Old
it
near the
as
Bailey are
its
may
pray,
origin
from the-
When
prifoners
flips
their
On
1779, the gaol was clean, and free from ofFenfive fcents.
vifit in
thumbs.
to be abolifhed.
who had
in the forenoon,
have you to fay why judgment of death and execution fhould not be
At my
bell
mode of
fide,
tomorrow
to die
at
now appointed
condemned
Of the
cells.
An
relief.
the felons
{hillings
in the other,
now
is
now
women.
Under
my
laft vifit
1780, but
rioters in
is
firft
poorer felons
Of
rebuilt
In the
The
who
and
Two
for trial.
Some of
the
women.
fixty-fix
Upwards of an
fick
and lan-
I fhall
give a table of
all
I.
An
execution day
is
thefe evils be
in the
it
is
is
Might not
after, either
foregoing idea.
TABLE,
Newgate.
2l6
TABLE OF
'Newgate.
London fc.
A Table
Fees
of
N.
FEES.
to be taken
faid
City of London for any Prifoner or Prifoners committed or coming into Gaol or Chamber-Rent there or
difcharge from thence in any Civil Anion fettled and eftabliftied the nineteenth day of
third year of the reign
of
his
December
in
the
Majefty King George the Second Annoque Domini 1729 purfuant to an Act of
An
Aft
Perfons.
-030
-013
/.
Every
Every
prifoner on the mafter's-fide mall pay to the keeper for his entrance fee
to the
Every debtor
And
No
two
in a
chamber-room
ufe
faid mafter's-fide
who
at his
own
defire (hall
keeper for chamber-room ufe of bed bedding and fheets per week
lhall
pay
to the
two
keeper for
and no more
Ihillings
S.
D.
Ihall
026
o
10
other fee for the ufe of chamber bed bedding or meets or upon the commitments or difcharge of any
prifoner on any civil action
Ed-u;<i
Rob t Raymond
Becker
Eyre
Tho Pengelly
R.
Rob' Alfop
In"
Barnard
Mr. Akerman fhewed me another table of fees, which was given him
when he commenced keeper. It is as follows
Fees
to
For every
felon's difcharge
Every
felon's entrance
fide
c0
5.
D.
10
18
10
10
10
0
6
For every
10
tranfport's difcharge
Fix.
Bob. Willmott.
Rob. Ladbroke.
Walter Bernard.
Samuel Pennant.
HIS
LONDON.
Sect. VII.
PRISON
HIS MAJESTY'S
THE FLEET,
WARDE N,
debtors.
for
Fleet,
Deputy Warden
and
now
Daniel Hopkins,
William Lozve.
Salary
Fees,
8.
0:2:0
Licence,
Beer and
Turnkey.
Wine
to John Cartwright,
now
William Hall,
who
holds of
{See Remarks.)
PRISONERS,
Allowance, none.
0:2:0.
Gamiih,
Number,
In the Rules.
in the Houfe.
In the Houfe.
171,
71.
2,
241,
78.
1782, Jan. 8,
Dec. 30,
13,
i47
37-
i7 8 3
1776,
1779, Aug.
CHAPLAIN,
Au g*
2 7>
In the Rules.
62,
6.
159,
31.
4I*
49*
Duty,
Salary
SURGEON,
TO
None.
this prifon
the Star-chamber.
came
many
16th of Charles
In the
I.
when
who
that court
was
aboliflied,
it
be-
common
pleas.
inquiry.
The
them
is
befides the
galleries,
At the
front
called
is
a narrow court.
Bartholomezv-Fair.
gallery confifts of a pafTage in the middle, the whole length of the prifon,
window
in every
fide of
it
The
room.
at
are, a
about 14-!
feet
byi2|, and 9^
each end.
On the
firft
high.
Each
66 yards
chimney and
At
floors,
Remarks,
LONDON.
Fleet,
rooms
for debtors), a
rooms for
prifoners.
rooms, and
room
Befides the
room
all
The
below the
hall-gallery.
It confifts
cellar-floor
who bought
fixteen fteps
is
now mentioned,
the tapper's
kitchen, his four large beer and wine cellars, and fifteen rooms for prifoners.
fifteen,
for
from four
On
the
to eight millings a
gallery
firfi
On
prifoners.
their
large
fleeps in that
room.
upper rooms,
viz,
The weekly
On
lift
one end
at
an infirmary.
is
a dirty billiard-table
At
tapfter
when
is
fome tenant a
If all the
part of his
The apartments
for
room
vacant, the
fire-place;
which
at
have
fome
ff
'
one of
my
viiits fixteen,
in the
charities
An
fall
to
prifoner
it.
When
room according
hire
of
rooms held by the tapfter, and let at the high rents aforecommon-fide debtors are only part of the right wing of the
24 or 25
firfl
or fhift as he can.
fleep in.
who
of thefe
They
3^. unfurnifhed.
is.
room becomes
prifon.
Some
the prifon was built, the warden gave each prifoner his choice of a
faid.
by the
for
ftaircafe,
rooms
*.
A room
room over the chapel, is
Thefe
hall-gallery,
committee-room.
is
upon
week
and
another room for the turnkey, were held by the tapfter, John Cartivright,
at
On
floors.
and on the
fides,
cannot
fubfift
the begging-box,
is
is
occupied
room about
and the
is
fo
grate.
Of them
there were
many.
each floor
Commons
1728, a table of
in the prifon f.
March
20, 1728.
8.
t It was ordered by the Judges Eyre, Price, Page and Denton: " that a table of gifts and bequefts
made for the prifoners in the Fleet, expreffing the particular purpofes for which the fame were given,
be prepared by the warden, and hung up in the hall of the faid prifon." See Table of Fees, Trinity-
term 1727,
in the
There
LONDON.
Sect. VII.
There
pumps
is
the prifon.
fives, tennis,
billiard- table.
And
&c.
They
faw
much
riot thefe
occafion
one or two
till
the tap.
lets
feveral butchers
On Monday
among them
behind
mentioned the
a fpacious court
and
on
in the
morning.
prifoners,
and thofe
annoyed by them.
that
was furprifed to
fee
Committee of
the
and that
before the
i. e.
later table, I
was referred
to
that
alfo.
which
It is as follows.
up.
A Table
it
was 1727,
it
their inquiry.
hung
prifon, a table
in this
of Fees to be taken by the Clerk of tke Papers and by the Clerk of the Inquiries of the Fleet
XX
I.
Common
of the Court of
1727.
RESOLUT ION
.
6th.
That
there
is
for the
That
there
is
.
-
fh
to
And
for each
Befides the
7th.
every aflion
And
And
to
firft
hahas
there
corpus
is
4d due
a fee of 5 (h
and 4 ft!
to the clerk
of the
firft
thofe which
on the difcharge of a
-
or orders.
fo I
and no more.
do
-026
026
-026
number of
the inquiries
caufe and 2
That
026
004
three caufes
8th.
14th.
D.
S.
at very diftant
avoid repetition,
Ffz
HILARY
LONDON.
220
HILARY
Warden
I. 2. 3.
Warden
II.
[729.
or deputy to appoint turnkeys &c. with arms: to flop perfons bringing arms, and watch
an efcape be
4.
GEORGE
3d
it
in agitation.
He, or
to diftribute charity-money.
his agent,
to
pri-
foners another.
a mailer-fide debtor
5. 6. 12. If
After difcharge,
inventory.
is
Such
B.
It
was reported
concerning
Warden
8. 18.
to
open
it,
to repair the
"
unpaid, he
his
detained in the
common-ward:
:
and then a
or dungeon.
who made
inquiry
9.
10.
Warden
him
II. 13.
; the warden ma
y
goods by a witnefTed
chamber-rent
may be
(fummer
at night
his
delivering to
to the four
to be
Hill
for thofe
it
as
N.
dues be
if legal
months to pay
common- fide
be
fet in
and
all
To
clean.
Prifoners to attend.
the flocks.
fee that
in the
Warden
demanded from
15.
Warden
and
And
hall.
no prifoner be carried
to a fpunging-houfe
new comer.
to fee that
bequejis,
no prifoner be defrauded of
his fhare.
None of
hung up
in the
diftribute.
16.
37.
Two
is
five
No
difeafed.
19.
Coroner's inquefl upon the dead: and corpfe to be delivered to the friends, free of coft.
20.
Warden
Warden
to
at a judge's
27.
28.
No
ceffible to all
regifter
feparate
chamber.
That
warden and
the
humanity
his officers
his cuflody
with
all
tendernefs and
and that fuch prifoners do behave themfelves toward the warden with that fubmiffion
Eyre
RobtPeice
Alex. Denton
A
J- Fortescue
R.
debtors,
by affeffment
to
hear complaints
determine difputes
levy fines
and
feize
LONDON.
Sect. VII.
Their
it.
No
the houfe.
The
fenfe to
committee to difpofe of
tion
damaging a lamp,
for
once a week
fine
riot,
The
all
over
cryer might
They were
a milling.
to be fpent in wine,
the
to
perfon to throw out water, &c. any where but at the finks in the yard.
a fpecial committee.
befides the
galleries
fweep the yard twice 'every week; and to light the lamps
to
221
one
to take
Ihilling
and fix-pence
to
be appropriated
to the
Common-fide
own
apartments,
and not
to aflbciate
It is
now
(lory are
He
floor.
The
in.
here at
up
my
billiard
and
little
In
of laws aboliflied.
brought
and arched
{tone,
and feveral of the prifoners keep dogs, which nuifance fhould never be
permitted in prifons.
code
rebuilt
laft vifit.
178
and was
1,
alfo
is
hung
A Table
Commitment, or coming
Aftion.
Settled
into
Day
Fleet, for
there, or difcharge
from thence,
in
any Civil
Majelly King George the Second, A. D. 1729, purfuant to an Act of Parliament lately made,
An Aft for the Relief of Debtors, in refpeft to the Imprifonment of their Perfons.
his
intitled to
intitled to
Every prifoner
to
pay
lhall
Every prifoner
defire lhall
-168
go on the mailer's- .
-
own
to the
own
pay
lhall
for
0134
074
chamber room
own
to the
now
called turnkeys,
on
his
commitment
is
in
no
fort to
-
013
013
flieets
D.
Every fuch prifoner on the mafter's-fide, who at his own defire lhall have a bed to himfelf, to
pay for chamber room, ufe of bed and bedding and Iheets, to the warden per week
0
If two in a bed, and no more, for chamber room, ufe of bed, bedding and Iheets, each to piy
v
S.
intitled,
pay
a judge's chamber,
.
-020
to the porter
-
at
to
to
pay
and
to the
-
068
Every
Fleet,
LONDON.
222
Flejjt.
Every
prifoner on a
No
corpus at a judge's
tipftafF
in court, to
chambers, to pay
pay to the
to the
tipftafF
D.
-042
-076
S.
other fees for any prifoner for the ufe of chamber, bed, bedding or fheets, or upon commitment or
common
partake of
the poor's
commitment
fee to
on the
prifoner
fide.
John Tbompfon.
Raymond.
R Eyre.
Rob. Alfop.
Tho. Pengelly.
Ed. Bellamy.
R.
"John Barnard.
;VD
NEW LUDGATE.
CA
TE
BISHOPGATE-STREET.
IN
Remarks.
Th
who
are
of the
free
On
them
city,
London work-houfe
In each of
ftaircafe
leading
and
adjoining.
to eleven
firft
the tap-room, four fmall rooms, which have iron bars at the windows, and a larger
never white-wafhed.
No
the main.
houfe.
The
infirmary
allowance
Chaplain, Rev.
city
the Forejl
large garrets,
repair,
is
no bath.
Mr. Henry
ten
The
chapel
is
common
now Mr.
Foulfas,
ftone of beef a
week
not from
and work-
Rofe.
to
is
to the prifon
fince the
9th of February 1776, a twopenny loaf every other day for each prifoner (weight
Aug. 1783, 21 oz.). The lord mayor and fheriffs fend annually coals and MelTrs.
:
Calvert
ferit
a board
is
fees,
a generous donation
He
fee table.
lives diftant
is
found
placed
The
till
is
On
painted,
"
No
Sunday,
4."
May
tap
is
15,
29 .
Dec. 26,
iq,
15.
TABLE
LONDON.
Sect. VII.
To
coming
(hall
pay
Every prifoner
fhall
at his or her
bedding and
in
Iheets,
own
at his
called the
two
fide, fhall
pay
Every prifoner
at his
for
own
defire has a
who
at his
own
pay
for ufe
of chamber-
in
week
in a
-003
-002
pay for
to himfelf, fhall
bed
defire hath a
S.
in the
fhall
common-fide,
D.
-010
-013
the mafter-fide, fhall pay for bed, bedding and Iheets per
Lubcate.
in a
defire fhall
of
LUDCATI.
Every prifoner
mafter-fide, being
New
TABLE OF FEES
of bed, bedding
own bedding (which the keeper fhall in no wife hinder) then they
fhall pay for chamber-room if more beds than one in a room, each per week
If the prifoner hath a room to himfelf, and provide himfelf with bed and bedding, which
the keeper is in no fort to hinder him of, then he fhall pay for chamber-room
per
The
week
and
The
Aldermen
Judges
Becber
Raymond
Alfop
Eyie
Peng el ly
Barnard
-004
to
003,.
To
1729.
date fliews that thefe fees were adapted to the old prifon,
by-
fee at difcharge
To
and
its
020
010
fundry wards*
Ordered
Whofoever on the Sabbath-day
fhall
may happen,
fattory, fhall
pay a
fion
and
fine
at
morning or evening
fervice
made appear
which ever
fufficL-ntly fatif-
of four-pence into the hands of the fteward for the time being, for every fuch omif-
N.
B.
Whoever
"
is
leflbn is ended,
is
forfeited as above,
A LIST
LONDON.
LIST
To
O
P
the
O N
ENEFACTORS
of
TT
CI
Brought over
10
John Peachy
Mrs. Holligrave,
0
0
13
4
0
10
Sir
Sir
Home
William
Peacock or Seacock
Mr. Thomas
Cottle
a hind quarter
3
1
Widow
Cooke,
of
Carried over
is
0
0
0
0
called Eleanor
0
0
0
0
10
0
0
33
to difcharge
0
0
0
10
10
10
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
30
22
0
0
129
14
12
2, and
Total
five (hillings
4
0
0
Gwynn's bread
fione of beef
Mr. Thomas
David
Cooke
33
Widow
Thomas Kneefworth
Mr. James Smith
Sir
0
0
/. e.
annu.
fifth
year
Mrs.
Eliz.
coals
200
per cent,
Company of mercers
Worlhipful
about
.-
45 14:
--
The
fums are
underftand
it
to
all
called 'in
mean bequefts
-170
14.1
old S. S. annuities,
Total
fakers'
600
my
16
drapers',
gifts
for ever.
POULTRY
LONDON*
Sect. VII.
225
POULTRY COMPTER.
KEEPER,
who purchafed
Chriftopher Hayes,
now
Poultry
Com p t b r
and has
life,
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
0:15:8.
o
Felons,
13
4.
Mr. Akerman.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, a penny loaf a day (wt. Dec. 1782, $oz. Aug.
(See
Felons,
penny
Number,
on
three
is
5.
26,
7.
90,
11.
30,
19.
53,
o.
1776, March
12,
72,
May
15,
Dec.
3,
Rev. Dr.
now
Salary,
l-
loaf (weight
halfpenny
46,
10.
Duty,
FOR
6.
77,
trujler,
now Mr.
every Sunday.
Impreffed
3;
Davis.
(See Remarks.)
none, they
make
outer gates.
>
1779, Aug. 6,
1782, Dec. 16,
26,
Salary,
1774, April
SURGEONS,
It
noz
0:1:6.
Felons,
CHAPLAIN,
day,
loaf a
Garnifh,
1783, looz.)
Remarks.)
there
bill.
fix
Prince's
room
floor
(called
In one of the
alfo,
thofe people
juft
indulgence
of
Remarks.
LONDON,
226
Poultry
mpter.
of water.
frefh
it is
.j^g court
and
flones
js
clean.
The tap-room
is
Adjoining
in the court.
is
women-felons.
and up
flairs
women.
a
On
one
fide
court
of the
is
chapel;
chapel, and indeed the whole of this prifon, was quite out of repair
lafl
vifit
At
prifoner,
The
men and
for
For
but
at
improvement
this
my
the
fheriff Taylor.
the roof of the prifon, are fpacious leads, on which the mafter's-fide debtors are
them
with
is
municate with the adjoining houfes, one of which affords a ready efcape from
a prifon in cafe of
Befides the
com-
fo
clofe
fire.
fome
60
a year:
is
by the companies
they have alfo from the fheriffs 32 pounds of beef on Saturdays, and
they had formerly from the Peacock brewhoufe (MefTrs. Calvert and Co.), a kind
The
other prifoners,
men
in
their wives
The
on
a board at the
is
not
There
hung up.
is
now
painted
to-
The
him
*
At
vi'fits
this
prifon,
humane
1776.
He
on night-charges*.
well as at
New
Soutb^ark,
refolution to
the chairman,
me
for
him of
is
refunded to
alfo
Weftmnfter, and
for
as
London 30
lift
my
in the prifons
in
made
the plan I
of tendon,
confequence of
in the
their
hard winter of
intended publication.
who fpoke
with
him and Mr. Co/ens the apothecary, who alfo attended; and many beneficial effefts proceeded from their management. Great alterations had taken place in prifons through the attention of
Parliament before the Doftor's vifits ; yet he difcovered many abufes and frauds ftill praclifed, which
gratitude of
Bew
in Paternojler-Rovi.
177 6'
q jj l -j/H Y
Sect. V1L
227
POULTRY COMPTER,
vise,
A Table
of Fees taken by the Warden, Gaoler, or Keeper of the Poultry [Compter within the City
Poultry
of London for any Prifoner or Prifoners Commitment or coming into Gaol, or Chamber-Rent there,
Compter.
from thence,
or Difcharge
in
IT.
and
" An Aft
fettled
the
in
and
eftablilhed
15th
the
January,
to
in
the
an Adl of
for
To
pay
at
own
his
(hall
go into the
bell
prifoner
in
the
difcharging fee
-- -- -the
in the
mafter-fide
for
who
at his
keeper
for
own
defire fhall
-- -- --
pay to the
mafter-fide,
to himfelf to
to
ward on the
beft
s.
D.
0
0
10
mafter-fide
ward on
bell
ward on the
Every
To
defire
ufe
chamber-room,
his
have
ufe
0
0
10
0
0
71
at his
own
-------
defire lhall
lheets, to the
If two in a bed and no more, to pay for chamber-room ufe of bed bedding and lheets, each
''''<-
/wweck
the
To
third
ward
commonly
called
lhall
In
'
fifteenpenny
ward
entrance
nothing,
when
at his
own
defire
a bed to
him or
keeper for chamber-room for the ufe of bed bedding and lheets, per week
If two
in a
common ward,
------the
have
to
-
pay
-
for
chamber-room
ufe of bed
bedding and
"
lheets,
-
Gg
WOOD-
LONDON.
228
WOOD-STREET COMPTER.
WoodITREET
Compter.
KEEPER,
John Kirby.
(See Remarks.)
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
0:15:8.
o
Felons,
11
Tap
Licence,
6.
let.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, 1
Felonricc.
1779, Aug.
6,
3.
58,
12,
71,
36.
Nov.
15,
"38,
ir.
May
10,
69,
3.
54,
17.
1777, Jan.
10,
85,
25.
34,
36*.
77 6,
Duty.
Sunday.
Salary,
30.
Mr. Withey.
prifon,
built
appears by infcription
as
common-fide debtors
ftories
room 39
this
fvvarms
lightfome; in
on the
Many
men, which
Felons &c.
45.
is
front,
apartments
their
in
rooms
day-room, night-room, and
:
number of
of galleries,
debtors
with bugs.
it
prifoners.
for
is
no
all
that
Debtors.
SURGEON,
room
felons
91,
CHAPLAIN,
were in
now
1783, i$~oz.)
Debtors.
high;
Remarks.)
(See
1,
1774, March
for
day:
0:1:2.
Garnifh,
THIS
loaf
Number,
Remarks.
penny
Felons, J
prifoners,
it
for
is
women-debtors
room
The
more
is
ruinous, and
fit
for
ufe.
Two
cell.
bedding or
Of
the
and two
for
thirty-fix felons
Sec.
there were
at Exeter,
three
women
one of thefe
is
a dark
11 fteps,
fines
The
and
is.
night
>
or
twenty-four convitts.
elfe
10s.
Twelve of
No
6d.
thefe
floorage,
LONDON.
Sect. TO.
and
floorage,
Near
week.
d. a
$s.
thofe four
for
In the court
rooms
(i. e.
The
Com pt sit.
the chapel
is
and under
inner
within the
aforefaid are
down
the tap-room,
it
gate
which
between
more rooms
in
16 fteps.
No
hung
not
The
up.
All the
the outer
and'
prifon
gate
infirmary.
greatly
is
out of repair; the main wall on one fide fliored and propped.
The
him
expence on night-charges
for. his
he
30
pays window-tax;
alfo
repaid
is
from
learned
him, that in the beginning of the year 1773 his prifoners were fickly, and eleven
For fome time the governors of the General Difpenfary (hewed a kind attendied.
tion to thefe poor people; and ordered their phyfician, Dr. Lettfom, to vifit them.
He
The
bread allowance
is
whom
Debtors (fome of
from the court of confeience, and lie till their debts are paid*) have' from the
They had formerly from the Peacock brewfheriffs 32 pounds of beef on Saturday.
houfe (Meffrs. Calvert and Co.) a donation of two barrels of fmall beer a week.
are
There
The
many
are
legacies
annual amount
* As
{hall
In
debts under
Guildhall
1518,
the
think,
it
Common
to
powers
fimilar
months,
which
be
to
company
the
debt.
called a
it
In
1750,
decifion
cancelled
quarterly.
drapers'
clafs
this
Alderman
the
to
&c. of the
maftcr,
by a court
extending
The
11.
may be
forty
for
59
is
From
liable
be imprifoned in
to
'.605,
be imprifoned
to
afts,
powers of
the
Dickenfon brought in a
feveral
thefe
In
others
in
Newgate
have been
for
bill
perfons
all
for
three
framed
for
various parts of the kingdom, in fome of which the term of confinement has been limited to forty days,
I
amounting
defirable
wherein a
criminals,
forty days
in
Why
have known a
might be
refpefting this
the police
life,
in
Why
matter.
mould'
fhould the fees, &c. be the fame for difcharging a debt of fifteen
man
comprehenfve fatute
cne
proportion
imprifonment
with
fees,
and
imprifoned for),
for
eftablifhed
the
for
thirty nine
whole kingdom,
between the
funis
on
this
indebted,
(hillings
head,
and
the
It
fhould
fees
And particular care fhould be taken, that debtors of this kind be not
who by their inftruftions and example frequently render them
is
certainly
be framed
abandoned
mix
as
themfelves.
See, farther,
difcharge
and
on
relief
this
WoodSTREET
mafter's-fide debtors.
fubjeft,
a Report drawn up
of persons confined
by
fr fmall debts.
corns
LONDON.
Wood-
come
here once a year, and releafe feveral debtors for fmall fums, and leave
405. for
a bequeft of Mr. John Kendrick.
I was informed that John Fuller,
'
&UKr%+.
tIie
Efq.
left
30
payment of
exceeding
per annum,
fees
2 55.
legacy, as Mr. Kirby told me, has not been paid fince 1765.
Some
prifon, nine
the
generous
almoner
to
And upon
benefactrefs.
reprefenting
to
the
lady
obtained
fire
king a renewal of the charity ; which was continued during his majefiy's
A Table
For every debtor
For
his or
that hath a
room on
week provided
her difcharge
his or
to
pay
Compter.
two
in
S.
7.
-080
the mafter-fide
if
in the
ward
10
called the
fifteen
weekly
pay
bed
-013
10
12
026
for felony,
mitdemeanour or
aflault
if
penny ward
D.
o
one room,
'-
C
-
-013
for one or
late
life.
on
his
or her difcharge
-0*6
-
BRIDEWELL.
*Hl]
Remarks;
fheets
and
jtre.et
| J*
I i I
Wood
from the
This
building was formerly a palace, near St. Bridget's (St. Bride's) well;
from
it
which,
after
it
Jebnfen's Dictionary.
beat
Sect. VII.
N.
hemp;
beat
was made
and,
to a
chamber above
to
St.
thefe
and there
is
up
fitted
is
rooms twice a
year.
Their
fick
are large,
it
and
ward-, as
hand- ventilator on
The
for an infirmary.
Bartholomew's hofpital.
a tube
to
women's ward
if
The
prifoners are
employed by
hemp-dreffer,
who
an apartment in the prifon, and a falary of 20. I always found them at work
The hours of work are in winter from
at my laft vifit they were picking oakum.
eight to four;
fummer from
in
to
fix
On
beer:
the
12
allowance about
and three
loaf,
day's
fteward
is
and contracts to
loaf,
fome
The
fix,
o'clock.
The
They
beer.
allowance of
bread
too
is
in
ftnall,
Aug. 1783,84-02. Oct. 902. The porter or keeper \s Thomas Holt. Salary, jT8o
no fees. To the women's ward there is a matron, Sarab Lyon; falary, 60. She
takes care of the fick, both men and women ; and is allowed a fhilling a day for
:
on
In Bridewell
is
On
No
a public
chapel
are feparated
have made
and legacies
bath.
firing.
other prifon in
the
London
to
The
reft
of the congregation.
fiderable gifts
No
this
hofpital,
in
common
with others
fufficient to
more commodious, by providing courts ; and feveral workrooms, and lodging-rooms, for keeping the prifoners more feparate, as now is
very
this prifon
faulty
apprentices
and
Bridewell
boys,
who were
The
upon
a quite different
foundation, and
foreign
to
my
fubject..
To
Bhde.
well.
LONDON.
232
Bum-
To
were committed,
this prifon
WELL.
Prifoners
1709.
i779
6 8i.
777808.
1780,
1Q 84-
*7 8l >
"
"
459
4 8 4-
983.
1782,
659.
"
"
544-
i77H>
1774,
1775>
1776,
*777>
found there
Prifoners
1027,
in
20.
May
1,
7.
Dec.
3,
24.
Prifoners
31,
38.
41.
GAOLER,
Prison
well?"
Salary,
z now 7'
Fees >
^0:7:0.
(See Remarks.)
Licence,
The Tap
let.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, a penny loaf; now
Number,
of bread a day.
Felons &c.
Felons fcc.
22,
87.
1779, Aug.
7,
60.
5,
37.
Nov.
15,
45.
May
10,
83.
Nov.
13,
58.
79.
1774, April
1776, March
CHAPLAIN,
Duty,
Salary,
SURGEON,
Salary,
Remarks.
lib,
0:1:4.
Garnifh,
9.
Debtors 79;
Sunday twice
$0.
Mr. Gibbes.
60,
now 100.
THIS
name.
prifon,
built in
keeper's
LONDON.
Sect. VII.
From
keeper's beds.)
you
fteps.
large
is
to
To
left.
Ihed,
has a chimney.
it
on
pafs
433
it
may be cool and frefh,
two apartments. Each has a
room on the ground-floor, a chamber, and an upper room.
In one part, thefe
rooms are 30 feet by 3
in the other 30 by 20: near 10 feet high: well planked
all over:
no chimneys. For the free circulation of air, every room has in front,
not permitted to go
in
in
air
is
the
to
court,
but, very
two windows;
6d.
31.
no
properly,
in
glafs.
in
every room;
and fhutters;
bars,
but
each
in
of the
one of the lower rooms, are other beds for thofe who pay
when
week:
thofe rooms.
in
In this court
is
room
a lock-up
for
the
unruly.
All the
flairs
are (tone.
On
one
fide
is
it
now
a lodging'
room, and a new day-room, or Jhed with a fire-place is made on the other fide
of the court.
Their night-rooms are one on the ground-floor ranging with the
it
it
of the fame
fize
Low Ward
and
21
Thefe
The two
only in front.
The
chapel
no
17,
and 10
are
clofets
by
feet
high
:
chamber
on the back
prifoners.
till
feet
glafs.
larger
having no
but from
air
The windows
are paved.
There
is
pump
in each court;
it
was
neighbouring prifon.
is
common
to this prifon
women
Men
The
prifons are
on oppofite
nefs of the
chapel, the lownefs of the ceiling, the prifoners being in view of each
fides
below;
and
in
oppofite galleries.
fmall-
other, and the keepers not attending, are circumftances highly improper.
The
their
'them.
tap-houfe
is
liquor at a wicket
No
infirmary
made
for that
Prifoners
but take
it ;
it
from
no bedding or draw.
fit
from
generous
New
clerkbn.
weli..
LONDON.
234
prifoners
and
beef
bread
twice
They have
week.
occafionally
other
fmall
donations.
The fines have only the prifon allowance *. The king's evidence
women in their ward, to fecure them from the refentment of the other
In December
1782,
their apartments
in
Newgate were
rebuilt.
The
in
ftied
fide-f,
till
the
and
is
If a fmall
inclofed a bath
incommodious
is
and
not ufed.
ways, he would have a view of the men's court, and of every perfon coming into the
prifon.
In the gate-way
is
board on which
is
painted as follows.
MIDDLESEX.
A
TABLE
Taken by
the Keeper of
New
OF
FEES
Prison Clerkenwell.
-
a copy of
commitment
Prifoners brought in
and difcharged,
juftice
-
No
term.-
to
all
juftices
D.
014
-020
of the peace
-
o
o
s.
060
be brought in here.
prifons of thofe
Fixes
called
who
are
committed for
from thofe who are only committed on fufpicion either of felony or mifdemeanors.
CLERKEN-
LONDON.
Sect. VII.
*35
CLERKENWELL BRIDEWELL,
KEEPER,
Edward
Salary,
50.
Fees,
0:7:0.
CLERKCN'
WELL
Bride-
(See Remarks.)
well.
Licence,
now
none.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, a penny loaf ; now
Garnifti,
Number,
Prifoners.
Duty
'
1779, Aug.
1782, April
Dec.
1783, Jan.
May
10,
Nov.
13,
136.
See
New
7 I.
l68.
21,
5>
Aug.
108.
10,
Re v. Mr.
Prifoners.
87.
93.
113.
1777, Jan.
CHAPLAIN,
of bread a day.
lib.
0:1:4.
IOI,
Richards.
Prifon.
Salary, J
SURGEON,
Salary,
OVER
Mr.
See
Gibbes.
New
Prifon.
new rooms
prifon,
feparate
and wards.
Courts
New
Prifon.
In the
in their
court
feet
prifoners flept in
thofe
who pay
a fmall
clofe
hemp-mop
hammocks.
3 jr. 6d. a
room ufed
all
as
or work-fhop:
prentices; 7 feet by
3JL
on the ground-floor.
In the women's court
Over
each:
is
paflage
fix
to
are
joining to which, is
In another part of the court is
a
little
thefe night-rooms
Over
day-rooms
this,
fame
fize as thofe
of the
Hh
night-
rooms
by 4).
is
for
men
long
women;
9 feet
Remarks.
LONDON.
Clerk enBridewell.
Q feet by 7 each, and io-J. high (in fome of them are beds for thofe who pay)
two of thefe rooms are now made into one for an infirmary for the women.
The
pump
Befides
but
which was
till
this
each court.
in
In July 1775, the juftices augmented the fees from 5/. 6d. to ys. but
they are reduced to
in this prifon
fum.
the old
In
now (1783)
from acquitted
of fees
lieu
which were cancelled by the late act, the juftices paid the keeper at
20 a year from the ti me w h en that act took place. To this bridewell,
among criminals, are committed debtors from the court of confidence; who are disprifoners,
the rate of
charged
the 108 in January 1777, above thirty were convicts, or fines, that
Of
committed
nals
They complained of
part women of the
allowed.
There
This prifon
convenient,
were
fore
much
is
whole near
able
Of
men up
The
flairs -f-.
many women-prifoners
the number committed to
as
The
No
as
men
oakum;
bedding
ftraw or
men.
It
it.
picking
in
crimi-
fick
to
might be made
my
At
in.
the
women
in
laft
women
convicts.
is,
if
below, the
Some
feet,
are in the
was clean.
vifits it
term of years.
for a
two rooms
at
pound of bread and two pence. The act for preferving the health of
New Prifon, on printed paper.
Of the 155 at my vifit in December 1782, 103 were fines; all were, unemployed.
At my laft vifit, 20 men and 50 women were convicts, and employed in picking
now have
prifoners
oakum.
clofe:
is
There
with
one dying,
* This
thought
on a
fine
runs
to
to take
little
it
off,
or no covering.
of water
the
rooms
are too
pipes
Company had
till
laft
year,
towards Marybonne.
when
the
In
dead.
obliged
We
did
is
here the
many
be built
the
Niiu-Rivtr -Company
the
In another
plenty continued
in
on laying new
All
In the infirmary for men, January 1783, five were fick and
them
fix
air.
fupply
falutary
fit
Company's
refufal,
were
no thorough
a.
perfons
refign,
for
the
furprized
public
at
benefit,
this
their
t This
is
falutary
employment,
as
the
ftrong
may
counteract any
women's
LONDON.
Sect. VII.
women's
lick
their clothes
in
237
floor,
BrideWELL.
At the General Quarter Seffions of the Peace holden in and for the County of Middlefex
Hall (by adjournment).13th of July 15th year of George III. &c.
Middkfex.
at Hicks's
Clerken-
A Table
Clerkenwell.
-060
-046
-010
-014
-010
-020
.
new
For turning the key
Prifoners brought in
reduced to
at
by
By
juftice
S.
D.
the Court
Butter*
WHITECHAPEL
PRISON,
White _
chapel.
FOR DEBTORS.
This
is
a prifon for
the
liberties
by a printed
former includes,
which
lift
have,
towns, parifhes,
villages,
The
ftreets
&c. to the number of forty-fix; and was granted by king Edward VI. to
lord
lanes,
above 2, and under 5. The mafter'shave four fizeable chambers, fronting the road; i. e. two on each ftory
They pay 2s. 6d. a week; and lie two in a bed; two beds in a room. The
common-lide debtors are in two long rooms in the court, near the tap-room; men
in
In
it
fide prifoners
one room;
women
in
begging-box from a
the other:
little
clofet
in
common.
it
in turn.
It
brings them only a few pence a day, and of this pittance none partake but
thofe who
at entrance have paid the keeper 2s. 6d. and treated the prifoners with
half a gallon of
beer.
When I was there in 1 777, no more than three had purchafed this privilege.
The
prifon
is
out of repair.
1776,
He
is
an
It
faw a paper
is
officer
Fees,
0:8:1. No
table:
but in
November
written as follows
A Table
Remarks.
LONDON.
138
A Table
White-
this
Prifon.
CHAPEL
Prison.
civil
to lie
to lie
firft
firft
^ q
-081
-020
026
night
week
Prifon.
comes
The
favv
6,
1776.
The
firft
pay for
firft vifit
**
to be
obferved in this
iod"
hung up.
there
No
is,
At my
rule
A companionate man, who was not a regular clergyman, fometimes preached to them on Sunday; and gave them fome fmall relief.
Lady Townfloend fends a guinea twice a year, which her fervant diftributes equally
and very poor.
chaplain.
as
The court-room
was furprifed to
fee
No
were
prifoners
at
found they
play with
The above was the account at the time of my former vifits; but in 1779 I was
informed that not a tenth part of the ufual bufinefs has been tranfacted here fince
the act for extending the provifions of an
19 Geo.
III.
Cap.
al,
to
LXX.
In 1782 the prifon was in a ruinous condition, yet fometimes here are one or two
prifoners.
By an aft in 1781 ; 21 Geo. III. entitled, " An act for diminifhing the fees payable,
" and altering the mode of proceeding, in the court of record within the manors of
*' Stepney and Hackney,
&c." imprifonment is fixed " for a time not exceeding one
" week for every pound of the total of the debt and cofts." By this good act no
prifoners
fix
weeks.
May
7,
Nov.
13,
8,
11,
1777, Jan.
1779, Aug.
23.
20.
27.
5.
Prifoners
-
25.
Oct.
16,
Prifoners
-
o.
o.
o.
o.
TOWER
Sect. VII.
N,
TOWER HAMLETS
WELL-CLOSE
IN
1
is
by
his prifon
is
Up
The
No
Fees,
March
May
9*.
At my
ftraw.
o.
17,
1.
id.
No
in
which French
clofet
about
5.1 feet
by 34, with
table.
CATHARINE'S
St.
rooms;
lafl vifit
1.
9,
large
Remarks*
flairs
1776,
ARE.
a chimney.
Q_U
ifiSU
at
GAOL,
GAOL.
St.-
Gatha.
RI NE's,
This
rooms on a
floor.
1779,
it
were no
1783.
it
years
ago,
is
a fmall houfe of
two
prifoners, and
was uninhabited.
prifoners.
In
{lories
but no prifoners.
:
December 1782
in
two
have
Auguft
alfo there
In Augufi
T HE
Remarks-.
WESTMINSTER.
24
THE SAVOY.
Savoy.
Remarks.
This
them
who
offenders
are confined
room down
king's guards.
keeper's houfe.
the
is
are of the
On
On
The
becaufe in
remainder of the
is
is
another
hall, not fo large: at each end of it is a room with barrack-bedfteads and beds;
both rooms very clofe and unhealthy. Over them are other barrack-rooms, fomewhat more airy. N. i, 2, and 4, and the room over N. 1, and the lodging-room
called the Store-room adjoining to the guard-rooms, are of good fize
and the practice
:
fince
my
firft
There
hole,
the
condemnd
are,
befides,
the
black
vifits,
is
hold,
falutary
the
cock
May
Many
64
The
tranfports.
faw
out of repair.
Keeper,
in provifions.
Deferters, 21 Imprefled
prifoners were in
prifoners.
and feveral
pit,
pafs over.
where
the
for
hall
were
health;
fitted
the
up
airy,
and three
for an infirmary.
The
prifon was
of the guards were in clofe confinement on bread and water for 48 hours.
was
fick
in the prifon,
and 12
in
two of the
left
clofe
24 or 48 hours.
Some
Three
One
hole
on condition of
months.
The
TOTHILL"
WESTMINSTER.
Sect. VII.
TO THILL-FIELDS BRIDEWELL,
KEEPER,
George Smith.
Salary,
keeper 20.
50, paying the widow of the former
Fees,
0:5:
TothillBridewell.
2.
Mr. Akerman.
Beer and Wine. Tap
Tranfports, taken by
Licence,
let.
Now
no licence.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, a penny loaf (weight Dec. 1782, 8$z.
a
0:1:
Garnifh
4.
Number,
1775, March
4,
109.
1779, Aug. $j
1782, Dec. 18,
1776,
6,
86.
89.
May
3,
75.
22,
92.
1777, Jan.
8,
no.
Oft. 29,
52.
OVER
" of this
38.
Mr.
the gate
Glover,
He
this
is
makes
Men
10.
Purdue.
bill.
infcription,
beg and
for
live idle in
" Here
work
city
for the
feet
They
2 inches
poor
No
ftraw.
No
For
and
Anno
faulty ap-
are
their allowance.
in
by 7
For women,
The
this
chapel,
Impreffed
72.
1655."
frefh.
74-
none.
none.
Salary,
"
Prifoncrs.
Prifoners.
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
9$ oz.) and
Ocl. 1783,
infirmary.
little
room ufed
as
a furgery.
Common
for
Prayer-book
every morning.
The women mould have another day-room: and one of the day-rooms for men
mould be enlarged. The courts adjacent might alfo be enlarged. The rooms for
women, and their court, are now more airy, the garden-pales being fet farther off. The
Over
the gate
I
is
"No
Remarks.
WESTMINSTER.
Tothill-
"
No
perfon admitted into this prifon on a Sunday after nine o'clock in the morning
At my
well.
vifit
in 1777, there
fix.
felons,
ward.
Fees
Tothili-fields Bridewell,
as
by Order of Court
-042D
-010
-014
010
s
Copy of commitment
For a
night's charge
by
George S. Bradjhaw
James Fielding
Aaron Lamb.
George Ried
WESTMINSTER GATE-HOUSE.
Gate .
HOUSE.
Remarks.
This
my
vifit
Aug.
22,
and another
and felons
ration of debtors
and
in
There
erected in
is
5,
will
1779
and
be a fepa-
rooms
will
when they
by pipes from
be in view from the pulpit, and there the keeper can eafily obferve them
are locked up.
the main.
over.
To
The
make
The
may be
eafily
conveyed
muft
be built.
THE
-SOUTHWARK.
Sect. VII.
THE
BENCH PRISON,
KING'S
DEBTORS.
FOR
MARSHAL,
243
now Mr.
Hill.
Salary-
Fees,
See Table.
Licence,
Tap
(See Remarks.)
let.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, none.
Garniih,
2:0.
Number,
1776, Jan.
28,
364,
May
28,
1779, Aug.
11,
511,
CHAPLAIN,
438,
1782, Jan.
2,
450,
7.
Dec. 28,
485,
30.
532,
50.
80.
75.
SURGEON,
month.
o on every commitment.
none.
King-Jlreet.
On
chapel
and
fix
as
The
called
rooms on each
four
a ftreet
but the
too fmull.
On
Remarks.
and
60.
Salary,
THIS
Duty,
The
100.
324,
In the Rules.
In the Houfe.
In the Rules.
In the Houfe.
fide the
it.
Thefe houfes
kitchen,
alfo
At
much
had ground-
of chambers.
room over
common
who paid
row was
for
left-hand
called
their
court-room.
in
the
The two
fix
the
rooms each,
for
SOUTH WAR
244
King's
ENCH
'
all
Crown-court.
houje
from the
confifting of ground-floors,
each floor
total twelve.
The
of
reft
range on
this
reft
and two
debtor
At
K.
who
floors of
chambers
like
other mafter's-fide
debtors.
The new
buildings were
firft,
principal
One
a right angle.
The chambers
who
But
let
to a prifoner
was
of
as
the
rooms on each
feet by
9*-,
The
prifon
rooms, and
of
13 feet by
my
vifits
the times
fummer
in the
part.
firft
1 1,
8 feet
On
(which
I
feet high.
The
floor, total
forty-four; each
Among
by an accurate
lilt
room 13^
of 108 new
At more than one
much oftener than
the improvements,
many
other prifons
In
The
It
It
was
crowded the
fo
1776, that a prifoner paid five fhillings a week for half a bed, and
chapel.
and the
the
formed
high.
when
on each
it
well
is
floors
about
parts of
The two
at the fardier
many
lay
May
1776, the number of prifoners within the walls was 395 ; and
which I procured, their wives (including a few that were only
total
thefe
were in the
prifon.
to the
new
buildings,
and another wing fimilar to that which has been already mentioned, but no infirmary.
is
enclofed with a ftrong wall about thirty feet high, with a chevaux
de frife.
The
one
Rules, or bounds of this prifon are extenfive, including St. George's Fields,
fide
is
publ: fried.
This prifon
is
vUited
at
Michaelmas term,
as the
my
firft vifits
&c.
The
SOUTHWARK.
Sect. VII.
it
good regulations
illicit
rebuilt
is
it
are introduced,
put
is
245
in a great
No
1780
rioters in
Many
infirmary.
fmuggled goods.
the government of this prifon
The
tables
of
and
rules
for
orders
common
infpection.
prefume
are
to give
hung up
(as
an abridgment
of them.
Rules
and
Orders
The
And
may
fuch
to the Fleet
4. Marfhal not to
None
methods of confinement.
attempting to efcape.
.
1729.
2. Againfl illegal
Made and
Government, &c.
November
by writ of habeas
upon
corpus.
common-fide and
the
to
to a
its
during
judge.
the dead.
9.
Table of
to
and a
lilt
No
The
14.
Dining -room
with a
fire.
Two
fick.
15.
offices
in
No
perfon committed for any criminal matter to vote for fleward, &c. or to partake of any charity but
the bafkets.
17.
Lodging
r8.
19.
Any
The
20.
One
in the cabin
prifoner
may be
affiflant,
fuperfedable adtion
may
2X.
flation.
of the common-fide to be kept by the mafler of King's Bench office; and not put
without the approbation of marfhal, fleward, and afliflants.
feal
The
No
money
to
any deed
appli-
afliflants
who
firfl
county-money..
22. Debts contrafted by the fleward and
afliflants
ifl
common
day of Eafler-term,
to
dend.
25. All
If.
King's
SOUTH WAR
King's
BtNCH.
27.
Common-fide
prifoners
court or a judge.
28.
The
K.
of the
lift
charities.
29.
A prifoner
wronged by the fteward and afliftants, on applying to the court or a judge, (hall be paid his
damages out of the next dividend of the fteward and afliftants if he complain unjuftly, he lhall make
fatisfadtion from his own next dividend.
:
afiiftants
call
them
to account,
and
Thefe orders
to
32. Marfnal, fervants, and prifoners to obierve thefe rules under pain of the utmoft punifiimcnt of law.
33.
No
clerk or fervant of a judge to take any fee on occafion of a petition founded on thefe orders.
Raymond
R.
'
The
preceding rules
one
fill
Further Rules
and
No
Orders
Day
Government, &c.
for the
of
May
1759.
who demand
a fortnight, from
3.
The chambers
common-fide
to
to be fhut at
dark
he
may
month
to
pay
his
chamber-rent; he
may be
he pays.
till
plaintiff,
fell
None
all profits
4.
by the
than a month.
6.
E. Probyn.
viz.
the 10th
1 .
Reynolds
fide
Ja.
If difcharged
of marfhal.
fell
may
do keep
That
is
the great
room
for exercife
fick.
8. Prifoners turned to
bafkets
to bear
no
office
to
flbare
of the
officers.
Mansfield,
A
Thofe who attempt
of the marfhal
who
or
further
afiift
aflault
Rule
an efcape
another
and
who
T. Dennison,
Order,
fell
who blafpheme
M. Forster,
May
E.
Wilmot.
1760.
or
make
a riot,
may be
fent
by
the marfhal to any one of the following prifons in Southwark, niz. the county gaol for Surry, the bride-
well
Sect. VII.
SOUTHWARK.
Marfhalfea
months.
firfl
24?
Signed)
Mansfield,
On
A Table
for
Majefty King
George
2d.
To the marfhal
To the turnkey
Bench
County of Surry,
Prifon, in the
committed on any
on the mafter's-fide
civil action
3d.
To
To
5 th.
To
To
th.
To
9th.
To
To
nth.
'
To
13th.
To
at a judge's
For the
And
For the
like ufe
17th.
For the
8th.
19th.
Ac
And
And
two
if
lie in
two
firit
one bed,
per
week
for the
to hinder
ufe
d.
each
finds his
own
-.
'
firfl
.
firft
night
fhall
pay
flieets
for
-
0
6
10
0
0
0
0
0
6.
common-
firfl:
a bed, 2 d. each
if the prifoner
fort
to the faid
night, in the
lie in
no
other fee
like ufe every night the prifoner remains in cuftody after the
ijth.
if
chambers
flieets
...
16th.
and
the court,
fide
by
prifon
14th.
To the clerk of the papers for each action upon fuch furrender
To each of the four tipftaffs, 2 s. 6d. for each prifoner's commitment
2th.
many
0
0
the faid deputy marfhal for a furrender in difcharge of bail, be there never fo
actions
10th.
Di
cham-
in court, or at a judge's
the clerk of the papers for every action, execution, or other charge to be paid on
the difcharge
firft
s.
4th.
6th.
Wilmot.
in
his
in
E.
is
Reign of
Firft.
fame Iheet
the
from thence
M. Forster,
T. Dennison,
is
if
In
oiq
of chamber, bed, bedding and Jhects, or upon the commitment or difcharge of any prifoner on
any civil
Thomas Howard,
Jnthony Thomas Abdy,
atlioti.
Mansfield,
T. Parker,
William Hammond,
Sjmg's
Bench.
be hung up.
to
Three
"
SOUTHWARK.
248
King
Three
Bench.
Monday
hung
next after three weeks from the day of the Holy Trinity in the 19th Year of
George
King
the Third.
If fuch perfon
chamber
lets his
where there
is
up.
no
court, It
is
is
to fay)
might have
real debt.
By
the Court.
days from the day of the Holy Trinity in the 19th Year of
fifteen
It
is
ordered that
all
prifoners
months
fix
be forthwith difcharged out of the prifon of the marlhal of the Marfhalfea by the faid marfhal as to
room
by reafon of
which he
is
fhall
be fuperfedeable.
feniority except
And
his
all
any
not fuperfedeable.
By
Wednefday next
after three
King
King's Bench Prifon.
It is
ordered by
this
George
the Court.
in the 2 1 ft
Year of
the Third.
of the Marfhalfea of
this
court fhall
permit no perfons to enter into the prifon without their being firft fearched, to fee Whether they have any
and that he do not fuffer the wives or children of any of the prifoners to
fpirituous liquors about them
:
lodge in the prifon, under any pretence whatfoever ; and that the marfhal do prefcribe in what manner, and
for how long time, vifitors fhall be allowed to fee or ftay with the prifoners, according to the circumftances
of every cafe
in his difcretion.
By
befides, in this prifon, as in the Fleet,
There were,
prifoners themfelves,
"
now
I
to be
term
the Court.
Many
it).
made by
this
procured a
lift
of
gifts
is
as follows
.
County money f paid quarterly by the clerk
at fifteen
the
College
There was a
fome benefaction
he thought
it
D.
-60 00
might perpetuate
By, the
S.
to the
his gift.
II.
Sea.
15.
The
gift
O U T
Sect. VII.
K,
249
S.
D.
10
12
of Sir Thomas Grejham paid by the Chamberlain of London at two pounds ten (hillings
-
ftr quarter
ditto
by
ditto
The
The
gift
Mr.
by ditto
by the
falters
money
.034
0134
.034
0100
-050
-068
-
050
100
-200
Bench.
pence,
King's
company
five
Lady
by the
parifhes
of
Mrs. Margaret Deane nine ftone and an half of good beef and
on
5 th
five
dozen of bread
fent yearly
Mrs. Margaret
Sine/ear fixty-five
The
Ieatherfellers
The
parifti
(hillings,
of
company
fometimes eight
St.
penny loaves
in bread two fhillings and eight pence, and calh fometimes four
(hillings quarterly.
fix
Midfummer.
at
-050
London
0150
090
-100
o 10
The
city
of Norwich annually
MARSHALSEA
SOUTHWARK.
MARSHALSEA PRISON.
Marshal-
DEPUTY MARSHAL,
Suestitute, Thomas
now
J. Evans.
Salary-
Fees,
Licence,
10
10.
The Tap
let.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, none.
0:1:
Garnifh,
Prifoners.
March
1774,
I775>
I77 6 ^
May
CHAPLAIN,
167.
1779,
Aug.
6>
175-
7 8 *>
J an
I2 >
*94-
15,
234.
17S3,
10,
92.
>
4^.
Dec. 19,
49.
Aug. 23,
71.
Salary,
is.
SURGEONS,
Salary,
TO
Prifoners.
16,
Duty,
Remarks.
It is
4.
Number,
is.
this prifon
of Weftminfter, are brought debtors arretted for the loweft fums, any where within
twelve miles of the palace, except in the city of
London
and
alfo perfons
committed
for piracy.
The deputy
marfhal,
whofe
under
particular
cuftody
this
prifon
has
is,
his
appointment from the knight marfhal of the king's houfehold for the time being.
The
great
Committee
This prifon
is
in
a fpacious
of them
a
left
were
for
of 101.
court.
for
he lived with
by the Gaol-
1729.
There
his family
women.
are, in
in
Of
let
in
were
They were
common-fide debtors.
not a prifoner
widow of
It is
to prifoners.
number
let
in
fix
to
two
women
SOUTH
Sect. VII.
ARK.
*$?
men on the matter's -fide, in which were about fixty beds yet at my
place to fleep in, but the chapel, and
firft vifits, many prifoners had no beds nor any
for in feveral rooms where four
regulation
wants
chamber-rent
The
the tap-room.
rooms
forty
for
in
lie
a week for
The
is
In
No
infirmary.
&c. and
it
tap
was
let to
The
court
little
in
in this
prifons,
number of
prifoners
yet
until the
amount to 10.
adr,
action
frefh
As he bound
exceed 4.
called the
He
procured a
lift
manor of Goring
his
Oxford charity.
in
here,
many
and
debtors
in
other
is
of profecution.
Thus
100
find
are not fo
are defeated *.
Allnott,
original debt,
Mr. Henry
fum-
in the
prifon wives
prifon as formerly
many
this prifon
the
js
well fupplied
incommodious
and
is
this
3s. 6d.
in
lie
at fkittles.
The
being
his lodging.
prifon
with water.
Park,
in
M^ny
are cleared by
it
this
every year.
of the legacies and donations which are regularly paid, but no table
May
"
"
"
"
"
(By
Common
6s. 8d.
In the Report from the (aforefaid) Committee appointed to inquire into the
14,
iums
for
againlt frivolous
is
is
arrefts is
of the gaols,
to
be com-
is
iiTued,
the
pr.icefs is
till
and vexations
ftate
" Many
cofts to the
ad of parliament
eluded."
Kk
Sir
Marshal-
SOUTHWARK.
252
MarshalSEA -
Sir
St.
Andrews Underjhaft.
Ironmongers company fend nine ftone and two pounds of beef, and
November,
Mr. John
Craythorne's legacy, 15
legacy, 9
paid by the
s.
s.
legacy, 20
company of
cutlers at Chriftmas.
Chriftmas.
at Chriftmas.
s.
Mr.
five
at
Chriftmas i
company fend
Mr. Thnnas
3 s.
yearly 6
s.
wardens of
St.
at Chriftmas.
8d.
at
ATable
Fees
of
company of
at Eajler,
to be taken
parifh clerks.
Inn back-gate,
left in
to
Ad for Relief
an
16C9.
on
of Debtors,
any Civil
Sec.
S.
To the knight
To the keeper
on the
marfhal upon the difcharge of every prifoner charged with one or more actions
for his care
firft
and
fafe cuftody
To
the keeper
To
actions
To
To
firft
action
the turnkey upon the difcharge of fuch prifoner charged with one or
firft
firft
night
firft
more
And every
And if two
after the
To
To
To
No
upon the difcharge of fuch prifoner charged with one or more actions
firft
-048
-038
-010
010
action
D.
018
more
actions
by the gaoler
and
more
010
006
003
004
evil afticn.
W.
Rkhardfon
Mansfield
Eliot Bijkop
C.Pratt
Lcond Houard.
T. Parker.
BOROUGH
SOUTH
Sect. VII.
W ARK.
2 53
BOROUGH COMPTER.
GAOLER,
Jeremiah Bevis.
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
Felons,
Tranfports,
Borough
Compter.
o.
4.
10:6
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors,"}
rs,l a penny loaf a day each (wen
Felons,
0:2:8
0:1:4
Garnifh,
May
1776,
March
4,
37>
11,
10,
May
18,
Nov.
13,
CHAPLAIN
none.
SURGEON,
none,
THIS
prifon,
parifhes
rooms
for
and
in
Tooley-ftreet,
a part
of a
it,
ufelefs,
into
becaufe not
two rooms.
Felons &c.
3-
2.
1.
for
2.
14,
4-
Dec. 15,
1783, Aug. 25,
15,
3-
25,
2.
flairs,
ding or ftraw.
The whole
which contains
prifon was
much
The keeper
is
and
a chapel,
out of repair,
An
infeription
at St.
who
lie
there
room over
then divided
Mod
till
of the
their debts
and ruinous.
feven
long room up
Felons &.
16,
in
room on
Debtors,
had
fifth,
common-fide debtors,
See Remarks,
common- fide.
Debtors.
i774>
1783, g\oz.)
mafter's-fide.
Number,
four
in
bailiff,
No
whofe
infirmary.
office
is
No
bed-
in the difpofal
This prifon might have been made more commodious, by building on a piece of
at the back of it, 41 feet by 20, which the keeper ufed as a garden.
ground,
*
The
many
This
Remarks,
SOUTH
254
Borouch
by 12),
feet
which
in
floor,
(tone-floor.
at
Here
ding.
are
rioters
in 1780,
three or
rooms
four
no table of
fees,
an
is
for
17,
the
thofe that
common
No
day-room.
bed-
pay.
W ARK.
Debtors here,
county
(as in the
the Fleet and Marjhalfea) have a gift every Chriftmas of 20s. from
Southwark.
the
Town
at the
Court-Houfe on
St.
It
and
Kn Mayor
broke
King holden
for
of
being reprefonted to
this
others,
Margaret's Hill
George
&c.
the
Lord
the
Second before
Lad-
Sir Robert
Sec.
Compter
in
regard to the prifoners charged therein with any criminal matter remain yet unfettled, for want whereof
divers impofitions
For
fettling
may
It is
fhall
and
snay take of every prifoner fo charged as aforefaid the following fees and no more.
That
is
to fay
S.
D.
on
.
For the admiffion of every prifoner
For every night's lodging
To
------
mifdemeanonrs
006
By
the Court
Man.
Jti. B.
Two
New
Gaol
in the
Borough, and
COUNTY
Home
HERTFORDSHIRE.
Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
255
HERTFORD.
at
Cornelius Wilfon.
6
.39
Debtors,
Salary
Fees,
now 100,
10,
Tranfports,
Licence,
15
Fdons,
:
FORD.
to fupply the felons with bread, as below.
")
:
4>
o each to London.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons,
Number,
Felons &c.
Debtors.
Dec.
1773,
10,
9-
16,
j6.
9,
21.
6,
12.
19.
2>
1776,
Feb. 14,
Nov. 22,
Rev. Mr.
Sunday.
Salary,
40.
Mr.
and joining
for debtors,
fteps,
to
it
The ad
hung
the bridewell.
* I
fire-place.
Over
their day-
On
for debtors.
each fide of
No
chapel.
it
were
No
in-
up.
my
vifits
At my fecond
vifit
The
pump, fhevved
fame kind.
figns
of
*.
felons
inftances of the
In front two
no
up
and women-felons.
1.
Cutler.
not
Scott,
liquors,
Salary,
firmary.
17. Defer
1,
Duty,
SURGEON,
Felons &c.
J 4-
3,
CHAPLAIN,
Debtors.
9,
17743
THE
of bread a day.
ilb.
0:4:6.
Garnifh,
life,
and foon
as
after recovered.
Since
this, I
This
Remarks.
HERTFORDSHIRE.
This old gaol could not have been made healthy and convenient
ITert-
ford
County
Gaol.
Home
are
now
new one
in
feet
the
by
whole
is
The
high
5 feet
felons
which being
corridor
is
make
circular)
am
new gaol
this
in
will juft
No
Herifrdfiire
the grace
of
to
At
wit.
Monday
God
the
and
pillars (not
of our
year
firft
in
not vaulted.
are
being of ftone, or
clofe.
The
bath.
The rooms
feet
Hertford on
a considerable
a convenient garden.
it
I
The
at
gaoler's not
An
diftance
8 inches
feet
Circuit.
Sir
Richard Chafe
Wm
holden
Kn
at
111.
by
Ralph Freeman
E
.
others, &c.
A Table
of
Fees
by
to be taken
the Gaoler
K.
3zd year of
fettled
purfuant
to an Act
made
in the
George II.
For the chamber-rent, bed and bedding of each debtor per night provided
two be put into one bed nor more than two beds in one room
that
room
fees out
fees
of gaol
0134
036
010
010
D.
004
For the chamber-rent, bed and bedding of each prifoner upon criminal procefs per vjtei provided that no more than two be put into one bed ; nor more than two beds in the fame
S.
no more than
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
Bridewells.
[HERTFORD.
Conlp }er
no chimneys
\6\
feet
This
_rhz
:
alfo the
is
The
by \o\, and 6
court, and
borough
feet
high:
The
no employment.
county
the
Two
gaol.
the middle
night
ward and
dungeon
window
for
feet 7
men
is
keeper,
is
down
inches by
gaoler
the lower
ward:
7 fteps,
foot
6: a
up within doors:
to fupply
each
HERTFORDSHIRE.
Home Cimwit.
Nov. 22,
HITCHIN.
over
it
i7 8 3?
4.
no ftraw t no court
24 no
Keeper's falary,
BERKHAMSTEAD. A
Bmde-
as at
WELLS.
one a Debtor.
7-
men 20-
no water
by
feet
No
a ladder.
no allowance
10.1
and
chimney
irt
no employ-
them by
to
fees,
fees.
Debtors
6.
3j
women, who go up
for
hung up.
two rooms
Fees, .0
57
Dec.
o.
ward
for
for
r.
-3.
2,
women.
A dungeon
13 feet by 94, and 6 feet 3 inches high -earth floor, very damp,
Keepers falary, 20: no
no window: no chimney: no bedfteads : no ftraw.
down 9
fees
They
ping
fteps,
are fometimes
employed
in
chop-
rags.
BUNTINGFORD. Two
for
women,
The
13 feet
by
No
10.
Salary,
At
in
die
St.
or
day-time
May
6,
no court
fire-place.
the other a
No
Allowance to
new one
court: no water.
1.
are*
rooms: no
8j;
1,
ALB AN
Compter.
by
.9:1:4.
1782,
feet
Offenfive fewer.
fire-place.
felons,
and
two
clofe
pay joins to
offenfive
No
it.
nightftraw
The late keeper's falary was 3.. The prefent keeper pays
corporation 10 a year, as appears by the mayor's receipt June 9,
no water.
rent to the
5781. Fees for felons, 135. ^d. Licence for beer. Claufes againft fpirituous liquors
L4
hung
HERTFORDSHIRE.
258
St.
Albans.
hung up.
ad
the
in prifon
1776, March
Nov.
1,
No
3,
Debtors
May
1782,
no
them
When
offenfive rooms.
One
in forty-two days,
table, they
7,
Felons
2.
Sec.
2.
o.
o.
1.
I#
is
Deferter
there are
of the windows
is
up.
1 6.
Salary,
Fees, 13J.
For
Nov.
1,
No
3,
Debtor
May
THE BRIDEWELL
One
large
no
prifoners.
1.
o.
o.
7,
and
Felon &c.
-
no water: no allowance: no
Deferters
1.
2.
o.
all
up
ftairs,
and
airy.
ftraw.
hung up.
lately-
Noftraw:
table.
1776, March
1782,
felons, three
4 J. no
1.
muft continue
prifoners.
debtors,
rated.
is
till
For
clears
II.
and here
fees,
Circuit.
of 25th Geo.
it
Home
No
courtt:
Claufes againft
28;
In 1779, I found a girl, who was fentenced for a year's imprifonment, locked up all the day with two foldiers in the work-room : and at my
rough,
no
fees.
1776, March
Nov.
1,
2,
Prifoners 2.
-
o.
1782.,
May
7,
3.
2.
ESSEX.
Home
259
Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
CHELMSFORD.
at
now
his
Chelms-
Widow.
ford.
none.
Salary,
Fees
>t 'i
'
Tranfports,
to
London
feven
or Gravefend,
for each
1 15:0
1
above feven,
more than
o.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, 1 a pound and half of bread a day, and a quart of fmaU
Garniih,
Felons,
Debtors.
0:4:6, now 0 6 6.
.0:3:0, now 0:3:6.
Felons,
beer.
Number,
Debtors.
1774, Feb.
Dec.
6,
13,
31.
1779, April 7,
1782, July 12,
14*-
11,
7.
Sunday.
4* now 50.
THE
Mr.
prifon
for felons,
was
clofe,
2 7>
'
19.
2I >
ffr
prifoners.
and frequently
0d:
7.
28,
Griffinhoofte.
2 5,
old
7 8 3*
Fcloas &c.
34,
Salary,
Salary,
Debtors.
30.
Duty,
SURGEON,
&c
30,
CHAPLAIN,
Felons
4,
775> oft J 9
1776, Nov. 20,
(See Remarks.)
gaol-diftemper.
among
it.
Debtors have a bufhel of coals a day from about 12 th of November to the 12th of
May: and
It
gave
above
me
pain to be informed in 1775, that there had been no divine fervice for
a year paft,
The new
fplendour.
The
county, to
their
coft.
The
much
prifon
as in
was
finimed
Remarks.
ESSEX.
260
helms-
"ounty
Gaol.
Home
Circuit,
mc ^ es ky
10
^eet
J 7
5 feet 3>
and a new
is
The
table of fees.
felons
rooms (15
feet
againft fpirituous
claufes
Herris's legacy,
rooms
two
with ftone
which
in
liquors painted
lofty, lined
a fmall area
in
for
There is a chapel.
Only one
pump. The courts are paved with flat ftone.
room for an infirmary, which, being unfurnilhed, has never been ufed, though at
clofe
my
feveral
vifit
laft
No
floors^
The
bath.
I
beg leave
felons apartments
to obferve,
The
at all
times fpirituous
ftravv in
hung up
too
and
common
in
new
Plymouth
The
cleanlinefs.
this gaol
is
The-
on the
The
it is
as
an
now flopped
up.'
Such
floors.
it
cribs
gaols.
&c. but
liquors, tools,
that
window might be made in his kitchen, which would overlook the felons court.
window in the debtors apartment towards the ftreet was highly improper,
was
firfl
much crowded
occupied
at night,
is
not.
a fault
when fome.
TABLE OF
EJJhx.
At General Quarter
Majefty's Gaol
Seffions,
&c.
FEE
Table of Fees
purfuant to an Aftmade
fettled
in the fecond
S.
to
Year of
K- George
II.
For the chamber rent bed and bedding of each debtor per night provided that no more than
two be put into one bed, nor no more than two beds in the fame room
his
viz*
S.
D.
-004.
For the chamber-rent bed and bedding of each prifoner upon criminal procefs per <week
provided that no more than two be put into one bed nor more than two beds in one
room
fee
this
19th
13
us the Juftices
Day of July
Eyre
Law: Carter.
-O36
-010
-010
1729.
Signed by
us Juftices
Tho Brarnfton
Tho Walford
John Cbeveky.
of Peace of and for the faid County this 19th day of July Anno Dom. 1729.
Rob 1 Abdy
Henry Maynard
Benj Moyer.
The
Home
ESSEX.
Circuit.
261
Chelms-
The new table of fees, which is dated 5th of Oftober 18th Geo. III. and figned by
fhomas Cozvper, James Raymond, and Richard Hunt, Efq"- and at the Lent Affize at
Chelmsford 1780 approved of by Mr. Juftice Gould, is the fame as the old table;
only there is added, " For every felon prifoner, difcharged by proclamation, to be
paid by the treafurer of the county
13
FORS,
4"
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS;
CHELMSFORD.
lodging-room
rooms
for the
Mr. Ford
fewers.
been
of the fame
fick.
by the fewers
offenfive
or
On
men:
for
'
two
"*.
me
ill
within doors
BrideWELLS
and a
women:
for
fize
my
one. of
at
county
the
many had
that
vifits
His
gaol.
falary,
^30
under-keeper's,
at
a penny a fkain
feveral fick
the
At
profit.
with
floor,
little
my
laft
vifit,
there
were
No
bath,
or no covering.
Garnifli 2 s.
1774, Dec.
J775>
IB-
1776, Nov.20,
21.
COLCHESTER.
The.
fide
room with a
tvvo
rooms
The rooms
and
air,
fire-place
are about 13
little
on one
it
fide
which
28.
- 31^.
No
window
on another
ufed by prifoners.
now
is
room with
The
feet fquare.
at
J ul Y 12,
Oft. 27,
2>
of
part
Court
fexes.
at
That
7%
7 8 3>
caftle, the
6, Prifoners 18.
*9i
water
is
are
* Thofe conveniences, which delicacy forbids enlarging upon, yet which are abfelutely neceffary to
all
houfes, and the fituation and conftruttion of which are of the greateit importance in prifons and other
is
my
my peculiar
and
attention
many of our
is
am
gaols.
The
comprehended which
had
to fay
on
this fubjeel in
ESSEX.
262
Bride-
'but
it
firing,
NEWPORT.
Built in
keeper's apartments
The
1775.
r.
3.
front
On
Behind
plain:
elegant, yet
is
ftraw,
fees.
pump.
is
no
Circuit.
1.
-3.
and a room
30
Keeper's falary,
a year.
employment:
or no
Little
Home
in
it
the
are
is
in
work-room on the
ground-floor with a fire-place (the only one in the prifon), and a fmaller work-
left
from two of
court
floor
mentioned rooms
back windows.
his
io^- feet
it,
Women have
all
thefe lodging-rooms
a fmall
room on
my
you go
to
laft-
them
the ground-
fquare.
for
a lodging-
is
fide
In
The
There
together.
number of women,
men's ward.
two of the men's rooms were added to the women's, there might
If
Straw,
each.
now .32
partition
no
a year.
No
in the court,
HALSTED.
and
vvas a
of
room
the
about
women
At my
^the
laft
fix feet
1782,
3.
May
5,
July 12,
9.
truftees
Prifoners 10.
-
15.
Men
of Martins charity.
another.
No
water.
Keeper's
falary,
^32
no
Allowance, a pound and half of bread, and a quart of fmall beer, a day.
2 5
If a latticed
a feparate
day,
Keeper's falary,
hung up.
rufliing out.
women had
in the
infirmary.
fees.
them
it
at
down
vifit,
in
another
fees.
The
This
the flames.
prifon
county.
3779, April 6,
J782, July II,
Prifoners 4.
-
5.
o.
Impreffed
Men
2.
BARKING.
Home
ESSEX.
Circuit.
BARKING. A
high; two
Bride-
wells,
windows
by
1 1
over
room
for
men, the
court
no employment.
no
ftraw.
ter.
1.
1779, April 8,
1782, Dec. 27,
for debtors.
added
1.
3.
Allowance
Imprefled
men:
Men
^28
no
fees,
5.
BRIDEWELL.
women ; and now two
another for
to criminals, three
no water
Fees,
zs. 6d.
in it:-
in
wia-
hung up.
1776,
Nov, 19,
1779,
1782,
April
July
Debtors
Felons &c.
2.
o.
4;
11,
1.
5.
Keeper's falary,
ftreet
No
2.
7,
HARWICH TOWN
a day,
Keeper's falary,
G-AOL and
to the bridewell.
Two
7 feet
hung up.
COLCHESTER TOWN
are
No
room
by ioi;
feet
back-gaol, for
No
15
fore-gaol;
to the ftreet.
in them.
rooms
263
no chimneys
court
^2:8:
o.
no water
Fees, 6s.
No
a back
no
GAOL,
room
fewer.
and
Bd. no table.
prifoners.
KENT,
COUNTY GAOL
Maid* T0NE -
GAOLER,
0:12:4.
Debtors,
Felons,
Tranfports,
Licence,
Watfin,
60,
Fees,
MAIDSTONE.
at
now Thomas
Philip De'tillin,
Salary,
Home Circuit*
T,
15
4.
0:15:0
now wine.
See Salary.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Remarks.)
( See
in
Debtors,
Debtors.
21,
31.
*775> J ul Y 2 5
1776, Feb. 19,
7>
a6
22,
3B.
Salary,
/30
Mr.
Waller,
augmented
5s
to 50.
j5> f r ne g al an d bridewell.
On
wards near 13
one
for
men-felons
men which
is
being removed.
flairs,
The
3'$
felons.
air
and
There
firft
is
new gaol
at
Under
floor there
The two
back of the
gaol.
laft
if
are
one
much
may be com-
the
inches wide.
but the
feet fquare.:
23.
H>
are eight rooms for debtors, which open into a paflage 6 feet 2
for debtors
Felons ice.
15,
Duty,
THIS
Debtor*.
Felons $cc.
Salary,
Hemarks.
1776.
of fmall
0:1:6.
Felons,
SURGEON,
Feb.
.0:3:0.
Number,
CHAPLAIN,
40Z.
a quart
(See Remarks.)
beer.
Garnifti,
lib.
the ftaircafe
fquare)
down eleven
condemned.
Felons
Home
KENT.
Circuit.
265
Maidi
Cotn
as to pay the fees of poor prifoners acquitted: and to tranfports caft at affizes,
of is. 6
formerly
with
trial.
faid they
They
alfo
lefs beer.
which
The
felons
and would,
if that
them every
are
d.
who
thirteenth
loaf,
dozen
and
chaldron of coals.
There
The
in
1779,
to take
The
an alarm-bell
is
infirmary
I
is
and a
improperly
fail-ventilator.
No
fituated.
On
bath.
them
off
when he requefted
Without
hung
it.
are
hung
Adt
up.
for preferving
up.
here will be
fick,
great danger of the gaol-fever, from the ofFenfivenefs of the wards and even the xourt
of the men-felons.
TABLE OF
Kent,
to
wit.
Quarter Seffions
year
1750
A Table
FEES.
holdenon Thurfday
at Maidjlone
fettled
of George
at the
II.
.
faid gaol
or keeper
turnkey
..
firft
in
fo
10
gaoler
006
003
-002
-
-010
-030
-016
as (hall chufe to be
night
faid
firft
firft
For the ufe of bed bedding and meets for each of the
And
And
D.
-0134
S.
And
in the
On
General
and
.-
floor,
-006
f Thofe
figures
Mm
For
266
Home
Circuit.
/.
flAIDSTONE
County
Gaol.
if
after the
frrft
S.
D.
If any fuch prifoner through poverty can only provide a couch, then to the faid gaoler or
o.
TV"
Turner
P. Boteler
Ed. Aujlen
Ja Calder
Wm
Herb'. Palmer
Champnefs.
True Copy."
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
MAIDSTONE.
built
Two
in
1776.
fex.
The
rooms and
a fmall
day-
the debtors court fhould be in the county gaol, for frequent wafhing frefhens
as
prifons*.
The
now 30.
it
in
1776;
No
table;
7th Jam.
I
I.
Fees 3
s.
d.
but printed rules, orders and regulations eftablifhed under the acts of
17th Geo.
II.
and
In 1779
faw two prifoners with the fmall-pox, lying on loofe ftraw, and their only covering
was
common
mats.
1776,
Feb.
19,
1779,
AP
l6 >
1782,
Dec.
CANTERBURY.
in
which
is
ril
Prifoners
'
2.
15.
4,
Men
their ward.
o-
The
Deferter
latter
r.
No
court.
men.
Out of
There
is
feet wide.
An
alarm-bell
is
5,
lately
put up.
1782, 18 oz.).
County allowance,
No
employment.
In 1776, the juftices abolifhed the fees 13^. 4^. and raifed the falary from
^25
to
Home
KENT.
Circuit.
May
DARTFORD.
for
men io\
No
high.
by 17
of
20:
felony,
The
felf
3*. 6
fees,
built
in
feet
No
4.
U.
6.
25,
feet
no
d.
court
no water: no ftraw:
His
table.
keeper told me, they had about two years ago, a bad fever ; which him-
and every
and family,
frefti
Three
caught.
prifoner
upon
of
died
it.
The
weaving
facks.
in
1776; but
room
for each
:
in
feX;,
with
pumps and
Here are three dungeons (12 feet by 5), damp, and not fecure. The floors
mould be boarded. At my laft vifit I found one prifoner, who had been committed
months from July
for three
in 17 81,
8 th, ftill in
fees,
fees,
s.
in
d.
three.
in
1776,
April 24,
i779>
i&
"
5-
3,
5.
1782,
Dec.
ys. ^d.
and feven
Prifoners 6.
the Weft-gate.
two: and
no court
in
j
One
s.
Af-d.
day-room
for
large
no
table.
He
Keeper's falary,
Fees,
Mm
in
Allowance, two
debtors
which
is
6
a
s.
8 d.
room
felons
or two
for
BrideWBLLS
KEN
CanterByRY
'
No
regard
paid
is
Home
T.
to:
Circuit.
" once
in
CAN TERBURY
Debtors.
Felons &c.
Debtors.
Felons kc.
3,
6.
2,
2.
3,.
2.
1782, Dec.
1,
2.
City Bridewell.
Dec.
1782,
5,
5,
No
prifoners.
bed
court
in
is
room
no water
to the ftreet,
and another
No
here.
One day-room
the court-room.
and ofFenfive.
clofe
all
acceflible
aflrzes
%.
pay
were held
to prifoners.
Keeper a fergeant: no
debtors
ftreet.
1776,
May
25,
ROCHESTER
bedfteads and ftraw.
Debtors.
Felons fcc.
Debtors.
Felons
1,
o.
2,
o.
o.
o.
1782, Dec.
o,
o.
Two
City Bridewell.
Fees, is.
3,
ice
No
prifoners.
DOVER CASTLE,
For Debtors
The
Philip
in the Cinque-Ports,
t.
e.
Two
Leman, bodar.
This work-houfe
building, the
rooms
is
clofe,
finely
now
fituated,
river
it
Frederick
feet
Lord North
is
and Sandwich.
conftable,
feet
by
and
n.
inhabitants.
f This bridewell
this
charity
- by
may be
his will
dated
is
The defign of
a houfe appointed for the reception of fix poor travellers.
from the following infeription placed over the door. " Richard Watts, Efq;
zzd of Auguft, 1579, founded this charity, for fix poor travellers, who, not
in
feen
or proclors,
may
receive gratis, for one night, lodging, entertainment, and four pence
OfFenfive
Home
OfFenfive fewers
1:10:
Fees,
vifit
KENT.
Circuit.
Keeper
0,
fome weeks on
no water.
Dover.
30. At a former
" he had been abfent
is
it
was, that
an officer."
his bufinefs as
hung
up.
DOVER
on
1776,
Feb. 17,
1779,
April 17,
1782,
Dec.
Town Gaol.
Prifoners 4.
-
3.
6,
One room of it
2..
The
the bridewell.
is
gaol
two rooms
is
clofe
and offenfive
there,
as
fecure.
$ s
licence.
Felons &c.
Debtors.
The
Debtors.
Felons &c.
*j
2-
'>
3,
4.
1782, Dec.
1,
3.
2,
3.
ROMNEY
25,
Gaol.
This prifon
bridewell, a large
Fees* 3
room with
s.
4 d. no
SANDWICH
The
Gaol
in 1750.
Two
cellar.
Behind
Allowance to felons 6
a day.
d.
no fewer.
DEAL
made
Gaol.
Dec.
an*d
6,
One
felon.
room
Bridewell.
in front
flairs
Keeper, no
the
table.
17 82,
bedftead.
is
Keeper, no
" 1776 in the mayoralty of Jofeph Stewart, Efq. at the joint expence of the
" Sandwich, the parifh of Walmer, and the vills of Ramfgate and Sarr."
:
rooms;
two rooms. In the court two new rooms without fireover them " This houfe of correction was built in the year
above
infcription
6,
a fire-place.
1782,
at
no water
court not
a chaldron of coals:,
i775 J ul y 2 5>
May
places.
no
10 and
id. no table.
falary.
Keeper's falary,
room
Fees,
falary.
Dec.
5,
No
s.
lives
my
1782,
diftant.
court
^.d.
prifoners..
Keeper* town-fergeant,
parifhes jn
No
8|
feet
vifit.
Dec.
5^
No
prifoners.
COUNTY
SUSSEX.
COUNTY GAOL
Horsham.
GAOLER,
Charles Cooper,
now Samuel
ji2c of
in lieu
Fees,
Debtors, ^
late
j^
Felons,
Tranfports,
of
IO
Smart.
all fees
now/ioo.
(See Remarks.
'
2:2:0
HORSHAM.
at
Salary,
Home Circuit.
each.
Wine.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons,
0x6:
Garnifh,
Number,
11,
5,
13,
rooms
ftraw
in
no court
d.
week.
Lent
aflize at
;
Eaft-Grinftead
affize,
Tranfports
aflize, at
The new
7.
mer
16,
for felons.
6.
8,
Dubbins.
:
12,
(See Remarks.)
now Mr.
:
Felons Sec.
9,
8.
50.
THE
No
13 *
Salary,
lb. loaf.
Debtors.
March
1782, Nov.
1779,
Duty,
Salary,
a 2
Sec.
7.
SURGEON,
Remarks.
Felons
Debtois.
CHAPLAIN,
now
6.
cellar.
in a
Sum-
alternately.
found finifhed
in
1779.
The duke of
Richmond, in concurrence with the other gentlemen of the county, interefted himfelf
much
in
this
appears to
affair.
me
The
fituation
is
judicioufly chofen
It
room 10
feet
by
7,
and 9
feet
in cafe
of
fire.
is
To
Each
fuch as
who
fu-
each
* See page
2U
This
SUSSEX.
Home Circuit.
This gaol has two
On
iron
rails.
(five
on each
and
Each
floor has
fix
Near
The
felons
the gate
on
is
by a (lone
feet
by
with
Horsham
rooms
County
ftaircafe
2 feet 3 inches)
two blankets
is
is
fide,
day-room (28
room
over arcades
floors
271
winter months.
in
wafhed with
warm
man
clothed in
is
a green ftriped uniform of coat, waiftcoat and breeches, and has two Ihirts, two pair of
ftockings, a pair of fhoes, a hat and woollen cap.
The county
number of turnkeys
(viz. three)
to each
they pay baif a guinea a week, and one of them goes twice a day to purchafe provifions
and
it
is
fent in fcales
is
a check
on the baker.
Several
full 2 lb.
The claufes againft fpirituous liquors are hung up, and the gaol is kept very clean.
The acl: for preferring the health of prifoners is not hung up. I would juft obferve,
that the gaoler fhould have a
his parlour towards that
county has
of
this I
fet a
window
of the felons.
in his kitchen
all fees,
and
fees,
:
in
though
this
confequence
demned
criminals.
TABLE OF
Suffix.
List of Fees
ta
:en
by
FEES.
debtor
D.
4
8
026
003
Turnkey thereupon
-
s.
Upon
in the gaoler's
Allowed and
fettled at the
By
Day
of Oftober 1737
us
John Butler
R. Mill
J. Jewkes
m Gratwicke
COUNTY
SUSSEX.
Home
Circuit.
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
ide.WELLS.
35 r
HORSHAM.
LEWES.
The
bed-rooms 10
five
Fees,
no
8 d.
s.
fquare,
feet
work-room,
my
the
all
The
profits.
The
13 oz.).
prifon.
lait vifits
&c.
fieves,
a kitchen,
a year;
into the
&c.
court,
it
difcontinued.
refpe6tive years
prifoners at
now
work-mop,
The produce
table.
is
in
making
county allowance
He
the
men's
in the
When
whiting.
is
in
found no
\\d.
his
makes
in
houfe
a bill
hung up.
PETWORTH.
1
by
ney
9,
no
ment.
Feb,
1779,
April 19,
8.
I 7 8 2,
Dec.
7.
21,
7,
6 feet high
glafs
Prifoners 5.
1776,
too fmall
or mutters to
the general
for
the
windows
no court
feet
number of
No
prifoners.
no water
chim-
no employ-
Fees, 6
s.
8 d.
no
table.
falary is
augmented
12 to ^20.
^30 in lieu
to
The keeper told me (in September 1774) that " all his prifoners upon
much weakened by the clofe confinement, and fmall allowance."
difcharge,
were
the former died the nth, the other the 26th of the fame month.
William Cox,
the gaol-fever.
However,
men were
famifhed to death:
it
will
it
is
For
duke of Richmond.
many poor
creatures
this
This
:
but
1774.
Home
SUSSEX.
Circuit:
BATTEL. Two
other,
rooms 14
feet
1782, Nov.
by
Fees, 3
j.
and
in
the
No
chimney:
in the
Salary,
10.
4d.
the Eaft-gate.
Prifoners o.
o.
and
BRIDEWELL,
Has
the bridewell.
day.
wells.
o.
no
is
many
Over
7,
one of which
124.; in
the flocks.
2 73
Bride-
court,
table.
Dbtors.
RYE Town
rooms
above
is
about
flairs
Gaol.
1
o.
2,
1.
Debtors.
1779, March 8,
1782, Nov. 7,
are three
halfpence a day.
An
Felons &c.
1,
Fees, 3J.
4d. no table.
Felons &c.
9,
o.
o,
o.
One of
Salary, none.
Keeper, a fergeant
at
mace.
1779, April 18,
1782, Dec. 6,
EAST-GRINSTEAD
Prison*.
The
1782, Dec.
8,
Prifoners
-
Under
conftable
No
o.
o.
the court, a
is
room 6
feet
inches
keeper.
prifoners.
Nn
SURREY,
SURREY.
274
COUNTY GAOL
SouthWARK.
GAOLER,
in
Home
Circuit.
SOUTHWARK.
Benjamin Hall.
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
0:12:4.
o
Felons,
15
Licence,
4.
(See Remarks.)
Transports,
The Tap
let.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors,*} three halfpennyworth of bread a day (weight 17 oz. Dec.
Felons, J
13-i oz. Sep.
1776, and Aug. 1779.
13 oz. Dec. 1782.
Garniih,
0:4: 6.
0:1:0.
Debtors,
Felons,
Number,
Debtors.
1774, Feb.
30,
60.
1776, March 4,
19,
CHAPLAIN,
9,
Sunday.
Salary,
50.
Salary,
39.
59.
Dec. 15,
23,
42.
18,
15.
26,
53.
23,
14.
Oft. 29,
27,
55.
20, for
New
Stapleton
and Walfhman.
St.
George's Fields
and
the
of the prifoners.
ftate
THE
Felons
32,
Duty,
SURGEONS,
Debtors.
1782, Jan.
2,
Dec. 25,
Remarks.
Felons &c.
9,
1779, Aug.
1783).
for
mafter's-
good rooms.
three
not admitted
For
except a few,
whom
is
diftinction.
The ward
is
for
men-felons has
court belonging to
above
for the
and a court.
it.
fix
rooms on three
The ward
The
felons
floors
courts
There
two lower rooms, two
flat ftones,
pump and
not only
In the
my
vifits
off.
7.
Home
SURREY.
Circuit.
South-
In the two upper rooms of the women's ward, are put malefactors of either fex con-
demned
and fometimes
to die,
pirates.
yet they
county
men-felons into
populous neighbourhood,
No
floors.
bedding nor
The
ft raw.
A chapel
and two
clofe
rooms
till
was
Many
in each.
died of a fever
of the
thefe are
fifty-five felons
At my
rebuilt.
&c.
floors
window
laft vifit
October 17835
in
fixteen
have the names and the fentences of twenty-five convicts, who are
fickly
and the
hung up.
were
lately
and
fines,
languifhing in this
left
gaol*.
is. 6d. a
by
his fervants
at the
week.
gaol
them
to
each
for
prifoner fo conducted.
Lent
aflize is at
There
of the
is
firft fix
tury, viz.
Kingfton
hung up
fummer
aflize at
The
of fixteen
lift
legacies
1597, 1598.
and
Three
In the
all.
One
this as well as
Here
would
the preceding
juft
The
dates
of the paper
feal
which feem
faid,
" The
of the prifon
is
have
title
The common
alternately.
on the lift, has. not been received fince 1726. There are alfo other
Two of the charities are for debtors exprefsly
to need infpection.
fo diftinguilhed;
-f-
donations.
penny
loaves.
Common-fide debtors
gifts.
mention, that
all
to be immediately burned, or rather buried; as they only ferve to harbour vermin, dirt,
and
infection.
* The occafion of my vifit at this time, to this and two or three other prifons, was, that I had feen on
board the hulks a few days before, feveral fickly objefts, who told me they had lately come from this and
other gaols ; which, by the looks of thofe convicts, I was perfuaded muft be in a bad Hate.
I was forry to
find
them confirm
tional
my
benefits
produced of
late years
by attention
ftate.
prove merely
temporary.
t During the
aflize at
Croydon the prifoners are confined in two ftables at the Three Tuns.
Nn
Surrey,
Gaol.
SURREY.
2y6
South-
wark
CountyGaol.
ATABLEofFEEStobe
Surrey, to nvtt.
nvark
for
0 ^
For
Home
or
re jg n 0 f our Sovereign
the difcharge
from the
Lord George
faid gaol
III.
To
To
to the turnkey
and
of the
faid
10
0
0
firft
To
the clerk of the papers on every difcharge of any prifoner in a civil action
in
as lhall chufe to be
firft
_-..
any fuch prifoner through poverty can only provide a couch, then
keeper for chamber- rent per week
r.
night
JVm
Onflow
Haymond
Joliffe
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
St.
i
6
firft
Bridewells,
if
If
But
or coming into gaol of every prifoner in a civil aftion, to the faid gaoler
or keeper
of the
------------------
fide
D.
'3
On
And
s.
the
And
On
For
in South-
to
commitment
Circuit.
N.
Herdidge.
S-
GEORGE's FIELDS.
and women.
Built 1772.
Separate wards and courts for men
In the men's ward, two rooms, and a work-fliop (about 20 feet
fquare) below;
week.
in
them beds
was
feparate
Window
1776,
room
for
faulty
apprentices.
no
glafs.
the
floor.
dirty
2s.
6d. a
at 2
the
s.
6d. a week.
feet
There
on the
All
at
work-mop (about 20
in
for.
In December, a
woman
fick
fowls.
Prifoners allowance, three halfpence a day in bread (weight Dec. 1776, and Aug-,
1779, 17 oz.). No firing. The fines or convicts were with the other prifoners,
They all were entirely without employment.
and had the fame allowance.
Keeper a meriff's
officer:
falary,
and the
25:
The
claufes
of prifoners, were
1779, Aug.
9,
44.
Of
Home
SURREY.
Circuit:
Of the
years, three
men
277
In the men's court there was a board, on which was painted as follows
Pees
to be taken
by
On
prifoner for
Prifoners brought in
No
ward dues
by a
garnilh to be taken
juftice's
JV.
B.
now added
It is
rioters in
was
tices.
No
bath.
There
a chimney.
is
Bread allowance,
releafed
all
the upper
young man
for
are
54- feet,
rooms
his
my
and 7
1302.
(4*.
The
2d.).
claufes
into
one
againft fpirituous
4 inches
fees
feet
or two rooms, as
difregardecL.
high), very proper for the feparation of the drunken and riotous.
rooms
d:
s.
002
=042
.026
This prohibition
to another
three
years,
Of every
fees
not
hung
up.
KINGSTON
keeper
fhops,
ground
32.
Odt. 29,
37.
upon Thames.
in
with feparate
pumps, &c.
Each ward has two lower rooms, three fleps above the
and two chambers. The men's rooms are near 17 feet by 14, and full
;
9 feet high: the women's, about 15 feet fquare. Every room planked round :
a chimney in each; and two windows, with mutters and iron bars, no glafa,
Tower were
keepers of bridewells in and about London to be wrought for ufe, and prompt payment
The.
Bride-
SURREY.
278
Kingston
wellT
The
men's court 59
feet
Home Circuit.
fome
refpccls fo
which
^5
10
Surgeon's falary,
will not
10
o, of
is
the prifoners.
a three halfpenny loaf a day (weight in 1779,
and a quarter;
1783, 1402.). No bedding. In 1776, they were at work, beatkeeper has the profit of it, and a falary of 25.
In 1779, the aft for
County allowance,
in
1782, 120Z.
in
ing hemp.
The
preferving
the health of
paid to
On
it.
was
prifon
prifoners
dirty,
committed
for
year.
One
fent
no
of the prifoners
back
hither,
prifon.
trial to
He
faid that
" he and
fifteen others
at
Ryegate
had been
where there
is
feflions
The
keeper
who was
prefent confirmed
facTr.
As
ment.
no
firing,
ftill
without employ-
fick
on
the floors.
and can
let
in a
men
At my
laft
vifit,
no
alteration.
Quarter
mas
at
feflions are
held
Lady-Day
Kingfton, Chriftmas at
1776, April
26,
1779, March
11,
St.
Prifoners 4.
-
at
Ryegate,
Midfummer
at
Guildford, Michael-
Margaret's Hill.
6.
Deferter
1.
GUILDFORD
Home
SURREY.
Circuit.
GUILDFORD BRIDEWELL,
in
new rooms up
had been
flairs
Two
by
No
lib. iioz.).
bedding nor
4 d. no
j.
None were
flraw.
The
table.
for the
but one
is
6.
6.
Allow-
work.
at
Nov. 1782,
lib.
Keeper's falary,
25
A court,
Here
fees,
is
rooms have
turret above;
and an open
4,
the affize
much crowded.
lately
is
it
Yet when
(lately a ftable)
2.79
for
hung up.
3.
Deferter 1.
3.
No
Lent
at the
Fees, 2
falary.
March
1779,
11, Debtors
is
" a
"
Edward Coke
the two
bailiffs,
chamber
fees,
and
No
" town clerk and other officers and miniflers of the faid town."
" of December 1 603 and confirmed by Charles Lord Howard,
te
hung up.
26, Prifoners o.
3.
prifoners.
due
It is
the bailiffs
to
town
at laft orders to
clerks
attorneys
fergeants
gaolers
fent
to
fent to gaol
committed
for
-020
-008
-020
For
arrefting
any freeman of
Every
fee
this
to a jury,
..
articles
S.
D.
am
cryers
be obferved.
not above
For the
and
There
The
prifoners.
(fee table).
s.
1776, April
crowded with
affize are
when
-
there
.
is
no other counfell
.
-006
026
-
068
BUCKING-
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
28o
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
AylesBURV,
Norfolk
Circuit.'
AYLESBURY.
at
Thomas Smith.
Salary,
.70.
(See Remarks.)
Fees,
Debtors,
15
10.
18
4.
Felons,
Tranfports,
u. a mile
each.
Licence,
(See Remarks.)
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors,")
Garnifh,
& P ou
Debtors,
Felons,
Number,
Debtor*.
17.
12,
4,
8.
10,
10.
1776, Jan.
3,
Duty,
Sunday.
Salary,
j[4'
29
feet
in
this
by
interval of
vifits
in
c,~,
my
7,
13.
6,
12.
20,
6.
Deferters 2.
room
;
and 6
firft
women felons
8
20,
ONE court,
;
1775, Nov. 2,
1779, Feb. 25,
1782, April 29,
Salary,
for debtors
Remarks.)
SURGEON,
Remarks.
/c,
b rcac a day.
Felons fee.
6,
CHAPLAIN,
>
0:8:0.
0:2:6.
Felons
is
high
and fecond
to the yard.
laid in
vifit,
flairs,
6 feet 8 inches by 4
no windows.
fix
Two
10
the other
condemned rooms.
all
A hall
mafter's-fide.
the
In the
At
my
In
1779, two men fentenced for three years had continued here two years and a half;
one of them was much emaciated by confinement without work *.
At my laft vifit
five
is
were
fines,
three.
No
infirmary.
Divine fervice
table of fees
is
* The furgeon and gaoler both informed me, that three men brought from Hertford gtol the Lent
3778, had
eafily credit
which being
fimilar
to
what
now
affize
it.
painted
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
Norfolk Circuit.
hung up
The ad
and
tranfports to
London
^70
for
hung up.
felons with
At fummer
a year.
281
affize,
to
convey
Ayles-
^v*y
Gaol.
moved from
prifoners are
hence to Buckingham.
lady at
Wefton
to
4 J. which
an annuity of
left
among
is
paid
by the church-wardens
be taken by the Keeper of his Majefty's Gaol at Ayljbury in and for the County
by the Hon. Sir William Stanhope, Knight of the Bath, Richard Lowndes
and Jehu Rivett Efqrs. three of his Majefty's Juftices of the Peace for the faid County of Bucks at
their General Quarter Seffion of the Peace holden at Jylejhury
on the 21ft Day cf April, in the tltt
of Bucks, examined,
fettled
Second and
George the
in the
From Debtors on
the fum of
For every warrant he
is
--------___
-------
To
Felons at the
affizes
the
fum of
the turnkey
At
To
the turnkey
Chamber
If he finds his
own bedding
Searching the
files
for
fum of
is
furniftied
unlefs
he
78
1.
Michaelmas
Allowed
lie in
common-room
the
the
fum of
By
Seffion.
the
...
be paid by the
0
0
D.
4
0
6
6
0
13
4
6
0
0
any warrant
to
fum of
To
S.
To
From
firft
O
O
Court.
in Court.
County of Bucks.
Vtrnty.
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
AYLESBURY.
the latter
54-
lately enclofed
Mr.
feet
by
4,
and 6
feet
high.
one of
from the fpacious court of the keeper's behind the county gaol.
is keeper; falary, 30.
Prifoners have from him
hung
up.
2.
1779, Feb.
25, Prifoners 3.
1776, Jan.
3.
I7 s 2j April
29,
1.
Nov.
3,
2,
2.
NEWPORT
Bride
WELLS
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.
282
Bride-
NEWPORT PAGNEL.
6-i,
and 6
allowance
Two
The
feet high.
cells.
cells in
no employment.
Norfolk Circuit.
Keeper
Salary,
diftant.
lives
by
No water
He pays
9.
20.
by
no
two
deferter lately
mitted twenty-nine
three
deferters included.
WEST-WYCOMB.
o.
Oft.
13,
1782, July
15,
o.
Nov. 28,
o.
lately
o.
the keeper was difmifTed at the Michaelmas feffions 1778 for inattention.
of two garrets
in
The windows
his falary,
^20.
It confifts
up
In 1782
found
this
to
by
fix
no
water.
hard labour.
No
prifoners.
Keeper's falary, 2.
on a board
is
for
debtors.
No
this infcription
:.
"
*'
fixed here
hung up.
this edifice to
The fummer
Gaoler no
water.
is
affixes
at his
Over
falary.
the gate
Grenville
Temple,
own expenfe
for the
1748."
No
No
prifoners.
BEDFORDSHIRE,
BEDFORDSHIRE,
Norfolk Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
283
BEDFORD,
at
Bedford.
Thomas Howard.
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
Tranfports
If only one,
Licence,
Beer.
Felons,
if
two,
each
all
above two,
each.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, two quartern-loaves a week each.
Felons,
Debtors,
Garnifti,
Number,
o.
Felons &c.
5 t0 I0 >
Debtors.
6 t0 9-
i773
"
1776,
Feb. 12,
8,
5.
1779,
Oct.
7,
2. Deferters 2.
CHAPLAIN,
"
16,
Salary,
20.
Salary,
Mr.
Gadfly.
12
on the
firft
July 17,
7,
Felons &c.
7,
3.
8,
9.
floor,
is
ufed as
The rooms
2,
and bridewell.
condemned.
J78
1783, Sep.
Duty,
SURGEON,
IN
Debtors.
are 8-i
for felons,
is
is
The
court
No
fome died
who
there,
and many
up.
in the
His
when
was,
About twenty
town
fheriff,
among whom
fucceflbr,
Mr.
Gadfly,
judicioufly chan'ged the medicines from fudorifics (generally ufed before) to bark and
cordials
and a
fail-ventilator
being foon
after
This prifon
not
hung
is
is
up.
O0
Fees
Remarks.
BEDFORDSHIRE.
^ ees on
Bedford
Co nt y
Gaol.
perfons that
come
difcharged,
to
a P r nte ^ P a P er >
figned
'
this
place,
either
fifteen millings
by
Norfolk Circuit.
to the gaoler,
T. RUhardfon.
At
my
At
County of Bedford.
vifit in
the
in
Week
the
at
the
Town
of Bedford in
St. Michael
October in the twenty-firft Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord George the third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King De.
faid
is
fender of the Faith and fo forth and in the Year of our Lord
before Sir Philip Monoux Baronet William Gery John Nefbitt and John Miller junior Efquires Hadley
Cox
Henry Hinde Peter Lepipre William Smith and John Hawkins Clerks JulKces of our faid Lord the King
Affigned to keep the Peace in the faid County and alfo to hear and determine divers Felonies Trefpafles
in
the faid
County committed
The
and approved of to be taken by the Gaoler of the faid County of Bedford but
Lent
to
firft
be fubmitted
.
pay the gaoler
Of him
To
to
To him
of every fuch debtor for the fecond and every other action
for each
Of
certificate in
week
Iheets, per
of fuperfedeat
To
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
and
his
6
6
0
2
2
Turnkey.
the gaoler for every prifoner fentenced to be burned in the hand fined or imprifoned
when difcharged
And
To
10
adlion
0
0
0
0
D.
bed meets
and blankets
s.
to
pay
fureties
And
if
demanded
'7
0
0
17
4
0
0
of the
2
2
For
BEDFORDSHIRE.
Norfolk Circuit.
285
-026
.
For a
certificate
For attending
in the
John
County
o
GaOL >
-0134
Approved
Nejbitt
James Eyre
William Smith
7 th
Jeremy Fijh
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
rooms about
134- feet
March 1782
Confifts of three
Bedford
be other-
.
ways difcharged
For the difcharge of every prifoner committed for felony or on fufpicion thereof and no
bill of indictment found, or difcharged on his or her trial, or delivered by proclamation,
D.
S.
at
County of Bedford.
BEDFORD,
no
The
prilbn clean.
Keeper's
falary,
fees.
Prifoners
3.
Ocl:. 16,
2.
4.
779,
rooms with
fire-places.
No
No
court
no
water.
1779,
Od.
16,
Prifoner
-
o.
1.
HUNTINGDONSHIRE,
BrjdeWELI"
HUNTINGDONSHIRE,
286
COUNTY GAOL
Hunting-
GAOLER,
at
Norfolk Circuit.
HUNTINGDON.
now John
don.
Randall.
none.
Salary,
Fees,
Debtors, .0
12
6.
'15
10.
if
more, 9 each
Felons,
12
afiize
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Garnifh,
Felons,
Debtors,
0:2:6.'
773>
i774>
Jan.
Salary,
7>
4-
29
7>
3-
1779,
3,
22,
11,
9,
4,
1782,
May
THIS
gaol
room
or kitchen
felons
it
is
fteps a
but
dungeon
for the
court; in which
No
gaol, 4.
is
dungeon
No
in
For
Near
which
for
is
hung
at
my
^4
No
:
The
ac~t
a fmall
prifon
day-
condemned
the floor of
and court
at
my
are too
viiit in
1779.
16
a day-room for
women-felons
The
chimneys.
up.
debtors,
is
it
the bridewell.
is
infirmary.
exprefsly forbidding
At
ju a
'Town Gaol.
for men-felons
women..
Straw,
officiated
He
hung up.
town
Perkins.
7 fteps,
4,
6.
14. Deferters 4.
( See Remarks.)
a large lodging-room.
it
down
for
Felons ice.
o.
and over
fmall:
no Chaplain
alfo
In another place,
men
and down 9
room.
5-
Now
Debtors.
Nov.
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
Felons &c.
Debtors.
Nov.
Remarks.
0:2:6.
Debtors,
Number,
24
16
o;
o a year.
vifit in
his attendance,
made
it.
the back of the prifon a hemp-dreffer has a fmall houfe, and alfo a falary of
year, to find
work
pence a ftone.
3
bridewell, in beating
hemp
at three
TABLE
HUNTINGDONSHIRE.
Norfolk Circuit.
TABLE
OF
287
FEES.
Huntingdon
A Table
Huntingdonjbire.
of the antient accuftomed Fees demanded taken and received time imme-
morial by the Gaoler for the time being of his Majefty's Gaol in the
County of Huntingdon
As
For the
commonly
to Civil Prifoners,
Town
Criminal Prifoners.
called Debtors.
. S. D.
o 10
o
-026
-024
-036
if
For the
two debtors
lie
together
As
difmiflion fee
to Criminal Prifoners.
Eor the
like to the
turnkey
to
each
if
two
fine,
lie
trefpafs, or felon
together
Robert
-026
.036
-048
o
13
Nunn
Keeper of the County Gaol of Huntingdonjbire Oft. 14, 1774.
There
date
is
a rafure,
when he
office,
figned.
Oc"L 6,
There
is
Blane,
and the
1778.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE,
TY
^qUA0L
q
'
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
288
Norfolk Circuit.
GAOLER,
Simeon Saunders.
BRIDGE*
Salary,
12
Fees,
Debtors,
14
o.
14
10
Felons,
Tranfports,
6:6:0 each
Licence,
Beer.
8.
8.
for eacTi
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
(See Remarks.)
Garnifh,
Debtors,
0:5:4.
Felons,
Number,
1773, Nov. 4,
1774, Dec. 13,
Feb.
1776,
9,
CHAPLAIN,
none.
SURGEON,
Mr.
THE
prifon
3-
is
Felons tec.
Debtors.
Felons
ice.
8,
2.
IO,
O.
6,
4.
2.
6.
21,
8,
3-
5>
Prince.
none
Salary,
Remarks.
Debtors.
he makes a
bill.
rooms
On
On
the
rooms.
fizeable.
floor is a room
Above them are
Claufes
of act
it.
from
Sidney college,
fixteen
a large kitchen
it is
relief
and 20 s. a
each has a
legacies
Ihirt
but not
fafe
hung
and prifoners
collection
from
is
St.
John's,
made
in the
memorial
the gallows.
from
No
In
turnkey
fheriff.
Straw, 20 j. a year.
up.
for the
firft
is
this county.
in the gaol.
Cambridge/hire.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
Norfolk Circuit.
Camlridgsjbire.
19th
of April
of the Peace
Seflions
of Geo. 1765
year
in the 5th
purfuant
held
the
Edward
W Hozvell
to a late
Adl
Gaol.
pafTed in the 2d
of
George
hung up publickly
to be
FEES.
O F
Intituled,
II
in the Prifon
An
To
To
commitment
fee to
be paid
at the
To the merilf for the difcharge of every prifoner to be p^id on fuch difcharge
To be paid for the weekly rent of an entire chamber, with one bed only, and clean linnen
And in cafe more prifoners are put into a room, fo that there is occafion for more beds in the
(hall
to it the
Edward
fum of
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
It confifts
and over them two rooms; one for men, with four cages
for
work, which
keeper:
no allowance
is
falary,
He
1.
Sep. 27,
There
Town Gaol.
whom
prifoner,
weeks
Below
I favv
no allowance.
The
Above
:
are
rooms
no water
of two work-rooms,
feet
6--
the prifoners
Mr. Saunders
is
1782, Feb.
8.
feet
by
6,
1.
ilfb at
room
there in 1776,
court
are
a
is
H Ei
-6.
9,
humane.-*
1776, Feb.
making mops.
attentive and
is
a
a
No
cages.
o
o
CAMBRIDGE
at
Is in the cattle-yard
S.
016
Hale IVcrtham
Leeds
D.
054
054
the gaoler for the difcharge of every prifoner to be paid at the time of his difcharge,
only
CAMBRIDGE
was a miferable
from
7.
The
object.:
the
about 21
&c.
for debtors
acceffible to prifoners.
is
hung up.
Gaoler no
falary.
No
acT:
Licence for
beer.
Number,
Debto
1774, Dec.
1776, Feb.
776, Sep.
Cambridge
County
Sec.
TABLE
Settled
Eefore
Ill
289
28,
Ftlons &c.
Debtors
Felons &c.
3.
1779' Se P- 2 3>
I,
2.
2.
O.
1782, Feb.
2,
O.
I,
I.
7,
An
Bride
well.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
290
Cam-
An
Norfolk Circuit.
Account of the Pees that have been anciently and cuftomarily paid
BR1DGK
Tolbooth Prifon
in the
Town
of Cambridge,
to the
<viz.
Town
Gaol.
The commitment
The withdraught
fee
is
The
faid
S.
D.
068
026
At
17 January 1765
Town
Town having
Wbtjkin,
Mayor
Edward
King Whittl ed
Town
We
the Juftices
of
the-
W H Ewen
On
for
ftraw or coverlets.
feet
Ellas SowJIer
Leeds
Norfolk
Bridewell.
work-room 19
of Cambridge
reviewed the abovefaid Table of Fees, do allow and confirm the fame
fquare, for
women.
women
them
at
were
night, in this
fewer.
This made it extremely offenfive, and occafioned a fever or
among them, which alarmed the Vice-chancellor, who ordered all of them
Two or three died within a few days. There are now added two
be difcharged.
fire-place or
ficknefs
to
rooms,
in
five cages
There
is
a fmall court
no
water.
The
No
a day.
Straw,
The
as formerly.
Thofe of them
that are
for the
is
this
a wool-comber.
many
His
falary
is
Sep
no
fees.
town.
28,
who
He
others
The
bafis
died 1630.
employs not
among them
To
30
a year.
endowed
ill,
Keeper's falary,
3.
7.
1782, Feb.
7,
3.
ELY
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
Norfolk Circuit,
ELY
GAOLER,
291
GAOL.
Ely
John Allday.
Gaol.
none.
Salary,
Debtors,
Fees,
Felons,
each.
Tranfports,
Licence,
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Debtors,
Allowance,
none.
Felons,
Garnifh,
4;
Number,
Debtors.
THIS
of
Ely,
the
O.
Dec. 13,
1,
2.
Sep. 23,
1782, Feb.
3-
9,
6,
7/
7.
1.
4j
2.
Lunatic
1.
none.
none.
was
cruel
Debtors.
6,
1776, Feb.
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
Felons &c.
30,
1774, Jan.
in
part
rebuilt
method which,
tor
who
is
by bifhop Ma-ivjon
want of a
fafe
gaol,
1768,
in
upon
complaint
ifle
of
the keeper
prifoners *.
For
mafter's-fide
condemned
room,
i8-| feet
Below
No
flairs
is
infirmary.
for the
ifle,
of
room on
a foot fquare.
and
There
is
cell
late,
hung up.
No
their
fheriff's
Lent
at Ely,
Summer
at
Wifbech.
with an iron collar with fpikes about their necks, and a heavy iron bar over their legs.
magiftrate, James Collyer, Efq.
king
but no free
aft for pre-
table of fees.
them down on
Keeper, a
or night-
county of Cambridge.
Afllze in this
and
flairs
ward.
rooms up
debtors three
felons.
An
excellent
much
affecled,
xedscLs.
At
Remarks.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
11)1
Ely.
At my
laft vifit,
s.
j.
s.
and gaol-fees, 3
d.
One
fined for 3
for cofts
Norfolk Circuit.
of the former was con-
s.
five children,
only
6d\.
BRIDEWELLS.
Bride-
ELY.
15 feet 4 inches)
No
garden.
1)
for
court;
February 1776, a
In
confifts
No
women.
men (16
feet
by
woman
fick
no
hung
apothecary.
No
allowance.
Keeper's falary,
up.
10: no
fees.
2.
2.
1776, Feb.
9,
3.
1782, Feb.
3.
Sep.
28,
1.
WISBECH.
This
is
alfo a gaol.
There
is
a defcent to
15 feet by 12),
acceflible to prifoners.
6,
of 5
it
ileps.
No
Two
court:
rooms
no water
Claufes of aft againft fpirituous liquors, and the aft for preferving the health of
prifoners not
hung up.
Keeper's falary,
16: no
fees.
This
prifon might be
Feb.
1779,
March
29,
Oft.
10,
Feb.
4,
may be
an honeft
1782,
An unhappy
debtor
3,
Prifoners 2.
Debtors
man;
but,
Men
2.
ImprefTed
1.
Felon &c.
1.
1.
Deferter
1.
" Evil
Lunatic
1.
t By an adt for the more eafy and fpeedy recovery of fmall debts, within the
Cambridge.
3.
IJle
1778.
NORFOLK.
NORFOLK.
Norfolk Circuit.
293
Norwich.
George Gynne.
Salary,
Debtors,
Fees,
Tranfports,
13
4.
15
6 each.
o per annum.
7:8.
Felons,
10
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors,
Felons,
"7
20 oz.J
in winter
.
Debtors,
Garnifh,
Felons &c.
30,
14.
1776, Nov.
Dec. 10,
16,
15.
1779,
29,
16.
1782, July
5,
Friday.
Salary,
30.
SURGEON,
Debtors.
March
Mr.
now Mr.
caftle
on the fummit of a
fituated
is
31,
24,
29.
6,
25,
23.
pump,
rooms over
fteps,
room
diftinct
from the
from thence.
nets,
&c. of
There
furgcon
is
their
of
reft
The
well as debtors,
women-felons
for
mo ft
decency would
fell
require
ir.
gaoler
at
is
here are
now
a bath,
and fome
for men-frlons
in
There
are
is
three airy
rooms
fo
his prifoners.
Thefe, felons as
own making.
a nurfe or
orders
all
on.
it.
the
and leads
a fmall
32.
18,
Rigby.
hill.
Only
Felons &c.
17,
^0.
Salary,
The
fix bulhels.
Duty,
THE
fummer
1,
1776, Feb.
a (lone of cheefe
o.
Debtors.
1774, Feb.
in
common
0:1:0.
Felons,
Number,
CHAPLAIN,
in
it,
matron
broth,
to
gruel,
milk-pottage
and
extra-firing.
It
is
when
the
alfo
her
bufmefs
Remarks;
NORFOLK.
294
^Norwich
Norfolk Circuit.
bufinefs to fee that the prifoners be duly ferved with their allowance of bread,
Castle.
|s
The
remarkably good.
Lent
which
defcribed
is
are
affize, prifoners
in
In
that place.
to Thetford *
At
and
twenty-feven prifoners,
1779,
which
them
in
1782,
the dun-
in
geon.
bound an
ties
poor of Norwich
charities to the
For payment, me
eftate in
Heyden
Among
left
in
and
this caftle,
the chari-
Thefc have
for
fome
years pall received nothing; although the legacies are paid to the other objects.
TABLE OF
A Table
Norfolk.
Debtors
FEES.
31 July3d
fettled
at the
George
of
taken by
1729
in
purfuance
II.
That
Scz.
is
holden by Adjournment
of
a late
Acl;
for Relief
to fay
050m
For
commitment
the
or
coming
into gaol of
Where
finds
of the Peace
fet
".
have hereunto
'
our hands
s.
-020
-006
-054
him
to
--week
at
of
TV" Bacon
1
Jatnes Reynolds
Edm d
R. Bacon
Tom. Turner
Miles Branthwayte
Miles BranthwayU
m Brantbivayte
Here
would
juft
The
up
flairs
furniture linen
ing, and airy
in the
wards
is
The
in
fummer, and
little
The
is
177 j,
as
being
There
tellers.
built in
Bacon
There
are
Dutch (loves
There
is
laft
in this houfe.
COUNTY
NORFOLK.
Norfolk Circuit.
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
S
WAFF HAM.
(10
clofe
feet
A window
perly flopped
up
1774,
Dec.
1776,
Feb.
1779,
March
-p,
3,
in
one of thefe
room
another
feet
n,].
5,
5,5
clofets,
4.
almoft to duft.
15^
by
feet
8,
women, in which, at
work with padlocks on
There
The
a
is
who had
my
is
lie
There
is
in the
it.
It is
and 6 feet high; now arched with brick; a dirt floor; has two
The
juftices
it
conveniently," as
Prifoners in this bridewell are not only confined within doors, but generally
in irons.
Keeper's falary,
16: no
1
Straw,
fees.
a year.
up.
AYLSHAM.
which
for night-
it,
of being obliged to
their legs,
fecure.
hung
there
me
a cutaneous diforder.
vifit in
prifoners
16
hung up:
bill.
prifoner complained to
but
impro-
{-including
0 the lunatic.
by
no
with a lunatic.
for
fickly objects at
5,
29,
WYMUNDHAM. A day-room
rooms, about 6
too
Prifoners 7.
11,
Feb.
1782,
is
falary,
ftraw.
is
"but
feet fquare,
Keeper's
by 15,
in the keeper's
feet
no pump.
work-room, 17
is
1776,
Nov.
17,
1779,
March
30,
1782,
July
6,
5.
9,
9-I feet
by
6.
Above
are three
flairs
Prifoners 5.
,
Keeper's falary,
in
it
is
No
fire-place
13
1779,
April
8.
Prifoners 4.
1,
ACLE.
Bride.
WELLS *
296
Bride-
ACLE.
NORFOLK.
Norfolk Circuit.
Down
on
1633.
is
it
prifoners
No
no
1779, April
WALS INGHAM.
room 15
no water
by
feet
7,
No
hung
up.
Prifoners
in
8 in
NORWICH CITY
Norwich.
GAOLER,
none:
Fees,
Debtors,
flie
Felons,
Tranfports,
Licence,
GAOL.
Widow.
40
a year.
6:8.
13
4.
5:5:0
COUNTY
his
walls of
Prifoners 2.
and
now
Salary,
The
Fees, is.
Oft. 10,
1779,
floors.
irons.
13:6:8.
Keeper's falary,
date
prifoners.
The
acceffible to
ftraw.
2,
is
a fpacious garden
no allowance
it.
This prifon
each.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors,
Garniih,
in
1779, 11
oz.
it
Debtors.
Felons &c.
52,
7.
1776, Nov.
Dec. 10,
17,
5.
1779,
31,
17.
1776, Feb.
5,
Debtors.
1,
1774, Feb.
March 3 1,
19,
5.
16,
5.
1782, July
6,
20.
ONLY
the felons
one court.
mon-fide debtors,
10.
11,
Salary,
Salary,
Felons &c.
17,
Duty,
SURGEON,
Remarks.
td'afj
0:1:0.
Number,
CHAPLAIN,
")
Felons,
who
Many rooms
are freemen.
day-room ; which
is
felons.
There
is
One room
down 13
for
combut
free,
fteps
in
this
NORFOLK.
Norfolk Circuit.
found
this I
297
The
in
or night-rooms, are
now 1
o a year, but
adjoining to the
The ad
were
in
it,
10
is
it
two rooms
The
alterations.
their
for debtors.
The
good day-room
feet high.
two chaldron.
hung
keeper's ftable
for there
no
is
but
is
up.
about three
over.
airy
all
g.'.ol.
they had
below
feet
and
22
fect
rooms
feet
trial;
late vifits
fo.
Three night-rooms or
my
at
many
taken down.
Coals
but
over
and but
54-,
o.
laft
once a year.
Norwich
felons dungeons,
as
6,
1778,
months
woman
one
and
TABLE
OF
FEES.
Guild
At
holden
General Quarter
fame
of Norwich and County of
16th of the fame O&ober before
5th Odlober 33d yearof George andadjourned
of
Tcmpfon Efq. Mayor Edward Bacon Efq. Recorder
Marfi Efq. &c. &c.
Ordered by
Peace
Court
purfuance of an A61
Fees
Relief of Debtors That
here underwritten, and no other or greater Sums be taken by any Gaoler o Keeper of any
City
the
the
City.
in
the
to
Robert
iNockold
this
It is
in
City
of Norwich
into gaol of
Where
Where
(That
finds
by the week
is
the feveral
to fay)
by
the
week each
We his Majefty's
thofe in execution
Juftices
prccefs
of the Peace
Nockold Tompfotiy
for
Mayor
f. Spurrell
Confirmed and allowed
at the Affize
By
By an
is
fet
our hands
Peter Colombine
yerem
July
Ives
in
us
John Nuthall
T: Parker
*
D.
Ed. Bacon
S.
him-
week each
to
-034
-009
-008
-054
-054
-034
the
Juftices
for
fhall
Plall
at the
Sefllons
II
T: Dennison.
Court of Confidence debtors are
faid court
which
Q_q
NORWICH
NORFOLK.
298
Norfolk Circuit.
and damp,
clofe
But
cribs.
down 15 Heps
are
more
rooms, are
feet fquare
The dungeons
is
it
be
fire-
places,
women.
for the
fo confiderate as to
In thefe, and
and
in
for
in an-
the other
and difobedient.
river,
and
all,
pump
Allowance two pennyworth of bread daily, two hot dinners in a week, and
water.
firing
in
to be
will
from Michaelmas
The
Lady-day.
to
fick
when wanted.
This employment
1774,
Dec. 10,
1776,
Feb.
in
is
Prifoners 3.
*779>
March
1782,
July
5,
5.
Prifoners 7.
31,
6,
4,
the
firft
are four
The
town brideweU.
rooms
for debtors;
and two
For
for delinquents.
felons,
On
ftory,
down
a dungeon
At
for beer.
my
18 feet
by
9-i,
laft vifit,
it.
pump.
court and
table of fees,
&c.
1774,
Dec.
9,
1776,
Nov.
18,
Prifoner
-
A Table
Ihetford.
of F
e e s
1.
1779,
Sept. 24,
o.
1782,
July
to
be taken in
this
6,
Prifoner
-
the
coming
If the debtor
If two
lie in
in
is
Gaol.
S.
D.
one bed
If he finds his
own bed
Searching
for warrant
file
1.
o.
On
now
is
not figned.
pay
for
it
per
week
-
.-
o
o
o
o
o
016
o
1
0
For
'
NORFOLK.
Norfolk Circuit.
For copy of every warrant
To
On
Turnkey
Bed per week each
in one
felon
bed
13
4
0
0
0
9
6
For
mefne procefs
D.
If on two
lie
If two
299
S.
Each
man
felon
is
allowed one penny per day at the expence of the town, and each debtor the fame.
is
clergy-
fixed with
frem water
And
they are
YARMOUTH
rooms
Town
Gaol.
debtors,
all
the prifoners,
down
or night-rooms
February 1776,
in
as
three
dungeons
Table of
now hung
fees
Gaoler's
The
up.
falary,
in
The
i$
hung up.
1776,
Feb.
6,
1779, April 3,
17S2, July 8,
Great Yarmouth.
a ladder of 10 fteps.
130-2.
in
A Table
Debtors 6,
Felons
Sec.
14.
4,
4.
4,
2.
this
Eurgh purfuant
to
an Order of
Affembly, A. D. 1671.
-008
-006
-010
001
.
releafe
in the private
For the key turning for every other prifoner for every week
For every prifoner committed upon any action except actions of debt
is
to
pay
to the
Qjl
mayor
2
to
be payed upon
if fureties
be given
s.
D.
002
004
-006
-
"2
-006
-008
his dif-
And
NORFOLK.
Norfolk Circuit.
-004
-006
-002
-006
-004
-004
-010
-068
.
Yarmouth.
And
And
to the ferjeant
of the court
-
;
-
But
if the action
for
to
pay
as
the gaoler.
at the feflions
YARMOUTH
fire-place in
fewer
fmall court,
to
which
Four rooms
no
prifoners have
No
accefs.
months
in three calendar
mon
Town Bridewell.
>
one of them.
D.
if. for
every zos.
S.
by 'the
acl:
to the
com-
1776, Feb.
i779>
AP
6, Prifoners o.
ril
the felons
liquors,
falary,
the court
and the
20
fees,
is
Debtor
8,
Gaol.
at
fmall,
"
"
1782, July
1,
Petty Offender
The rooms
my firft
vifit.
in
it.
hung up.
ift
Gaoler's
of March, 1729
By
no
1774,
Dec.
1779,
March
11,
29,
Felons &c.
Debtors.
Felons &c.
1,
o.
1779,
Oft. 9,
3,
2.
3,
4-
*7 82 >
Feb
4a
2.
4a
SUFFOLK.
SUFFOLK.
Norfolk Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
301
IPSWICH.
at
Ipswich.
none.
Salary,
Debtors,")
Fees,
Felons,
IO
g>
Tranfports,
6:6:0
Licence,
each
he paying clerk of
affize
1:1:0
for each.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
(See Remarks.)
Felons,
July 1782, 20
Felons,
Number,
Feb.
CHAPLAIN,
7,
5.
1779, April
5,
24,
23.
1782, July
9,
27,
10. Deferter
and
day-room
cleanlinefs
Mr.
Buck.
40
for debtors
alfo the
is
chambers
Each
ward
is
to be warned.
The women
men
for the
health.
head
and
The
good
I
pump
which
from being
fmall,
For
made
debtors, a kitchen, or
a free ward.
For
felons
10 or 12 inches high
Thefe are
eafily
the
moved when
the
garters,
found
is
lately
a ftrong night-room
is
is
felons.
one of thefe
place.
(See Remarks.)
feveral
and
and
&o
6.
17.
Felons
29.
50.
THIS
15,
15,
Salary,
day-room
Debtors.
14.
Duty,
Salary,
fell
22,
SURGEON,
Felons &c.
Debtors.
1774, Feb. 3,
Dec. 7,
1776,
0:2:6.
0:1:0.
Debtors,
Garnifh,
in
02.).
is
reft.
and
their
No
bath.
Two rooms
fire-
for the
though
full
of prifoners.
The
Remarks^.
SUFFOLK.
302
^n
Ipswich
Count y
^e
Norfolk Circuit,
is
an aperture covered by
merely with the regular and punctual performance of his ftated duty
the prifoners on
all
prifoners
there
is
now an allowance
The a&
prifoners thither.
he
the gaoler
to
conveying
for
of
health
is
a friend to
is
occafions.
now hung up
The
ale.
i~lb.
of beef for
in the chapel.
July 17,1780.
At
this, the
fit,
Mr.
Pemierton's charity,
it
is
any of the
as
jail, as
Neverthelefs, fuch
do not regularly attend divine fervice (unlefs prevented by ficknefs, or fome rea-
fonable caufe, to be allowed of by the chaplain), and behave decently and reverently,
from
benefit or allowance
county of
think neceffary,
fhall
or for the delivering them out of prifon, until the treafurer fhall receive further orders.
debtors in Ipfnxich
in the
jails
he
fhall
this charity.
Trustees,
Geo. Drury.
From
No
Edtp*. HafelL
another legacy the town fupplies them with five chaldron of coals yearly.
memorial of
TABLE OF
At
Suffolk, to nvit.
July
Pb. B. Brooke,
Lott Knight.
-1729,
Table of Fees
fettled
by the
FEES.
holden by Adjournment
Juftices
County of
at
Bury
St.
Edmunds
at
Bury
St.
late
fl
Act
of July 1729.
To
Out of which
To
is
to
commitment
fee
the officer
have reviewed
this
'-
G. Golding
D.
-020
-020
-026
M.
Jermyn Davers
Table of Fees and do think proper to moderate and reduce the fame
fhillings to be paid to the Officer and deducting
S.
-0128
to
Shelton.
fix
fhillings
Tho. Pencelly.
* See Priejllefs Experiments, Qfc. p. 281.
t Erafed.
COUNTY
SUFFOLK.
Norfolk Circuit.
303
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
IPSWICH. On
the ground-floor
a work-fhop
is
and a night-room
for
men
up
Bridewells.
Claufes
women. None of them, nor the court fecure.
Keeper, a worded manufacturer
falary,
againfl fpirkuous liquors not hung up.
Employment, fpinning worried, and
17. No fees. Prifoners, no allowance.
a night-room for
flairs
turning a twifting-mill.
The
my
greatly improved.
vifit in
1779,
nozv are
20
feet
found
by
14,
1774, Dec.
8, Prifoners
1776, Feb.
7,
-3.
18,
Nov.
WOODBRIDGE.
and bedding
Two
court
is
is
To
9 feet high.
feet
by 16
in thefe are
beds
of the keeper's
garden,
No
15.
Salary,
2.
The
fire-place.
fecure.
1.
and made
firing:
no.
water: no employment.
1776,
BECCLES.
1.
4.
room on
In the ward
Prifoners 9.
7,
1782, July
9,
day-room with
is
window
a fire-place
which
to the ftreet
the
jii
10
liquors not
0.
When
At
which
my
I
hung up.
prifoners
vifit
in
Only one
The
court.
and
is
it.
women,,
fteps
highly improper, as
No
under
I
have
proper feparation of
Salary,
for
chamber
dungeon 7
ground.
Feb.
1779, April 4,
^5
1776,
Feb.
6,
1779,
A P"1
>
"
9-
1782,
July
8,
15.
Prifoners 3.
me
an old table of
fees
on parchment,
here copy.
The*-
SUFFOLK.
304
Beccles.
The
Gaoler's
Fees
for the
County of
Suffolk
Norfolk Circuit^
Juftices
of the Peace
underwritten.
committed in court
upon
D.
0
0
S.
U!'"
-
0
0
10
0
0
0
0
Item for every prifoner lodging in the gaoler's bed for every night taking no diet in the
Taking
If he find his
diet
diet
If he take no diet
is
not a felon that will go into the ward and lye there for every
"
night
0
6
0
Item if two lye in one bed and take diet in the houfe for both
Henry
0
0
0
6
8
can agree.
Anthi
Felton
'.
Gawdy
Rob'. Brake
Tbtfi.
Bacon
The Smith
Tbtfi.
Bade
Tho
%
.
Edgar
Charles Milton
Ex per
Ro. Clarke V. C. P.
am.
Bridewells.
LAVENHAM. A
women
I
work-room below:
chamber
The
prifon
men;
for
out of repair.
is
At
a former vifk
heard that a prifoner had efcaped, for which the keeper was fined, though the
Two
doors;
14
8.
No
more,
lately efcaped
through the
for them.
no
fees.
prifoners.
plafter wall.
no water:
An
At
ftraw.
There
is
my
lafl vifit,
found the
magiftrates
had
CLARE.
2.
3.
25,
3.
1.
work-room.
Two
Men
Impreffed
lodging-rooms
with
15.
boarded
The work-room
No
court.
clofe
glazed, and
made
offenfive
No
bedfteads.
chimneys.
by a
clofet
The
in
prifon
it.
is
thatched,
Norfolk Circuit.
U F F O L
K.
thatched, the walls are clay, but the men's lodging-room boarded;
of
No
it is
Each
jC 1 3
vifit
firft
penny a day
prifoner pays a
'
no
women,
work, in
&c.
ftraw,
for
at
irons.
hung
fees.
allowance.
Keeper a weaver
falary
At my
up.
1779, the three prifoners, though they were women, had each a heavy
two imprefied men had chains and logs. No Juftices have vifited
in
many
years.
1776, Dec.
Prifoner
6,
1779, April 6,
1.
Sep. 25,
by
No
8.
hung
up.
10: no
fire-place:
The
prifon
rooms the lower 10^ feet by 10, and the upper 12 feet
no fewer. Claufes againft fprituous liquors not
no court:
is
ruinous;
BURY
No
were repairing
it,
without paying a
The
and making
On
No
No
Edmund's,
St.
is
i:
fecure
a week.
fliilling
me
court
a work-room.
{eldom ufed.
On
by chevaux
one
fide
of
it
ftraw.
There
proper feparation of
is
at
for
this
are
men
had been
as
careful
to
promote
cleanlinefs
fituated
at
my
down
The
No
near the
firft
vifit,
and induftry in
their
down
three fteps
women-felons.
parifti,
forty perfons
1779, they
another dungeon
men and
the property of
vifit in
de frife:
a large dungeon
is
is
my
cleaneft I
rooms
EDMUND's GAOL.
St.
is
Two
prifoners.
which
falary
1.
is
his
fees.
of them
2.
o.
17
Men
1.
MILDENHALL*. Two
Imprefied
3.
to
ftep or
late
apothecary then;
church, was
and
two;
gaoler told
at
them.
own work-houfes,
my
If
laft
all
one of the
vifit
fixty.
the parilhes
there would
been no occafion for parilhes uniting in houfes of induftry, moft of which I have vifited in
this
have
and
Rr
but
SUFFOLK.
Burt.
but one
is
appointed
falary
fince;
^50. Keeper, no
now hung up, the fame
week:
falary,
of fees
is
and wine.
falary:
ad
county gaol
pre-
for
chaplain;
fees,
as in the
no bath;
infirmary:
as at a
table
at Ipfwich.
always found a
No
40.
of prifoners
Norfolk Circuit..
common
alehoufe.
Allowance, debtors none, felons a three-penny loaf every other day (weight, July
fifth
of
November
to
Lady-
day, felons have two bufhels of coals a week, and debtors four; both from a legacy
In a Defcription of Bury printed 1771, there
of which no memorial in the gaol.
an account of feveral ancient donations and bequefts to prifoners.
Whether
is
they be now totally funk, or the coals be from fome of them, I cannot fay.
A poor
widow of eighty years of age, committed March 6, 1780, for a fine of ^5, was here
at
my
At
laft vifit.
aflize,
twice a year, prifoners of both fexes brought from Ipfwich, are confined
Debtors.
9,
10,
15.
1779, April
8,
11,
18.
1782, July
Nov.
18,
5,
6.
BURY
It
Debtors.
1774, Dec.
1776, Feb.
Bridewell.
has a large
and out of
it
room
Nov.
SUDBURY
was
in
a fire-place.
11.
9,
Prifoners
8,
18,
fees,
one milling.
779, April 5, Prifoners
1782, July 10,
2.
Keeper, no
o.
1.
2.
1.
Has
for debtors a
little
have no allowance.
16,
for
5.
10,
1774, Dec.
1776, Feb.
is faid,
18,
work-room
repair.
This,
Felons &c.
5,
feet
for
day-room with a
by 5
each.
women;
fees,
4^.
no
table.
fire*
room
They
hung up.
1776,
Dec.
1779,
Sep. 25,
6,
Prifoners o.
-
o.
WARWICK-
WARWICKSHIRE.
Midland Circuit,
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
William
Warwick*
'Roe.
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
14
6.
13
4.
Felons,
8:0:0 each,
Tranfports,
WARWICK.
at
for each.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons,
0:2:
Garnilh,
(See Remarks.)
N Umber,
Debtors.
23,
1776, Jan.
24,
CHAPLAIN,
6,
Felons Ice.
3>
22,
7-
22,
28.
May
17^2,
33.
Duty,
50.
SURGEON,
ONE
3-
Felons &c.
30,
3 2>
1,
Salary,
Salary,
Debtors.
1776, Odl.
9.
(See Remarks-)
Mr. Weak.
for gaol
20
and men-felons.
debtors,
court for
and bridewell.
day-room, and two fmall night-rooms (7 feet 10 inches by 6 feet 8),. aperture only
They ufed to be loaded with irons-, now they have none. Men7 inches by 6.
felons
have
diameter,
day-room
down
a prefervative.
tried in the
Debtors
ward.
gaoler
their night
fleps
Two
is
in
offenfive
dungeon
is
the
which
hall,
fome of them
prefent) died in
No
men, and
alfo
is
the
fix for
Prifoners are
ufed as a chapel.
No infirmary
now
plenty.
feet
women*.
no bath.
the condemned.
for
common day-room
in another
cells
of bread
room
damp and
county clothing
mafter's-fide,
free
The
For
is
the
The
late
and fo
felons allowance
at
Reading
Rr
in Berkjhire.
Debtors
Remarks.
WARWICKSHIRE.
3o8
Warwick
C
Y
Gaol"
Debtors have
common from
in
Midland Circuit.
No
up
in the gaol.
The
juftices of this
that gentlemen fo
confiderate
will
which open
were
feems by what
firrifhed,
is
in
May
damp and
and alfo
felons,
not be hoped
dungeon
offenfive
diameter?
3 feet
both, (hall be
it
In
many
1782,
feet
wide.
It
healthy or convenience.
fome
hall,
rules
againft
profanenefs, rioting
for near
there had
two years.
the
Peace at
the General
of an
to the directions
Quarter Seflions
Adfor
held
at
Warwick
Every prifoner
that lies
on the keeper's
fide if
prifoners on the keeper's fide and have a bed between two, pay each by the week
For entering every action againft each prifoner
For difcharging every action againft each prifoner
Thofe
To
certificate
being difcharged
F
We
Stratford
Table of Fees.
Wife
in order
D.
-0106
040
-010
-010
-
for
-
Huddesford
S.
026
Bird
030
C Bean
this
T. Parker
Ja Hewitt
"
true
Copy."
In this gaol
O
Wariuickjbire,
to
uuit.
At
General
is
hung up
the following
R.
13th
of
in
the year 1773 before Jofepb Davie Clerk, John Ingram, Samuel Aylivorth Efqrs-
Ordered
WARWICKSHIRE.
Midland Circuit.
Ordered and
is
it
Court
39
gaol be
the
that
Warwick.
perfons admitted therein, or permitted to continue there after nine in the evening between Michaelmas
the
in
neceflity or bufinefs.
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
This prifon, the only county bridewell,
(19
feet
court.
No
water
and
is
now hung
%d. table
too fmall.
pump
on
little
feparate
The
wall.
ground adjacent.
the
up.
in
is
4 j.
WARWICK.
at
might be enlarged
ofFenfive:
Peace.
hung
^40
up.
fees
Mr. Mu(fen
(chaplain to the county goal) formerly read prayers here once a week.
Committed
eleven
in
1774,
hundred
and
and twelve
At my
or
laft
the
vifit,
or carding
jerfey,
quarter, to
12
prifoners were
wool.
Their
all
at
earnings
the
for
m
5:8:0.
78 1 , to April 24,
to Jan.
1782,
9,
Oct.
3,
2,
in
one
15,
s.
16
o.
1:2.
r.
1776, Jan.
6,
5.
1782,
Oft.
30,
12.
fpinning flax
county amounted,
3
.
And from
beating hemp,
work;
May
1,
Prifoners 12.
-
10.
COVENTRY
BrideWELI-
WARWICKSHIRE.
3io
COVENTRY CITY
Coventry.
GAOLER,
Midland Circuit.
COUNTY
and
GAOL.
Bafil Goode.
now
Salary,
jTiz,
Fees,
Debtors,
Felon,,
'
taken
")
off.
'5:4.
Tranfports, .8 each.
Licence,
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons,
of bread a day.
i lb,
0:2:0.
Garniih,
Number,
9,
1776, Jan.
7,
16
10.
Od.
30,
5-
......
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
Nov.
25,
1782,
May
1,
3-
4. Deferters4.
2.
none.
Mr.
Harper.
none: he makes a
Salary,
bill.
THIS
Rsmarks.
fpot
for
debtors;
mafter's-fide
a defcent of
is
about 9
feet
by 6
at
and the
fire-place.
2 fteps to
a pafiage only
prifoners.
all
feet
No
ftraw:
wide
little
the four
window,
no infirmary: no bath.
torches.
liquors,
fpirituous
nor the
ad
for
preferving
inches
are
by
7.
Only one
which
dungeons
1 1
cafe, the
horrid
Neither
claufes
are
hung up.
One
his
going to
Mr.
fea.
his
majefty's pardon,
on condition of
letter
which
take
WARWICKSHIRE.
Midland Circuit.
take
his
in
May
the
4d.
lgs.
TABLE OF DEBTORS
Parliament
the
George
32
City
the faid
at
the II.
FEES,
JulHces of the
the
12 day of January
1778, according
to an
Aft of
of Debtors.
Every prifoner
Thole
that lies
if
If on the
To
----...
the gaoler for difcharging every prifoner committed or detained in his cuftody
For
and
gaoler*s
Coventry.
As
together with
this,
under-flieriff's fees, I
3"
-------
For every
certificate
D
6
6
13
4-
0
0
difcharged
ao March 1778.
s.
John Minjier.
John Clark.
ThoK L. Smith.
above Table of
and confirm-
fame
the
W.
H. Ashurst.
rooms
for
men;
two
for
women;
no fewers
all
clofe
and
no employment.
No
offenfive.
court:
Keeper's falary, .5
no
fees,
one milling.
(late
in
1776;
flags,
is
laid
men
the
women have
is
made
their feparate
into
room
work-room
might be kept
this prifon
very clean.
1776, Jan.
Oft.
1779, March
7, Prifoners 6.
30,
?,6,
3.
May
1,
1.
4.
i.
BIRMINGHAM
Coventry
Gaoj..
WARWICKSHIRE.
312
Midland Circuit.
Town
Gaol.
The
is
The
court
about
is
above was a
free
ward
At fome
Over
it
is
particular
fizeable
Once
in the
winter
1775 there were above 150, who by the care of the magiftrates had a fupply of
proper food, broth, &c. In November 1782 1 found thirty-nine perfons who had
been apprehended the preceding night by a fearch-warrant, but moft of them were
difcharged that morning.
beer:
fees,
2*.
no
Allowance, 4^.
Neither claufes
table.
againft fpirituous
Licence for
nor aft for
hung up.
Offenders 2.
7,
o,
8.
o,
o.
Nov. 26,
o.
BIRMINGHAM
liquors,
Court Prison
Deferter
1.
1,
3.
Debtors.
Two
forty days.
foners
are
Fees,
to pay a fhoe-maker's
him
Claufes
5 s.
i*.
The
keeper informed
me
hung
that
up.
The
pri-
he was obliged
to finifh a piece of
7.
3.
his confinement.
LEICESTERSHIRE.
LEICESTERSHIRE.
Midland Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
now
Samuel Jordan,
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
3'3
LEICESTER.
at
William Jordan.
Leicester.
5
Felons,
if
Beer, to deputy *.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors,') a four-penny loaf every other day (weight
Felons,
Debtors,
Garnifh,
Debtors.
16,
3.
1774, April
i775> J an
4,
16,
11.
*5
Nov.
11,
17,
2.
C HAP LAI N,
Rev. Mr.
Duty,
Sunday.
Salary,
30.
SURGEON,
and
(See Remarks.)
Debtors.
1776,0a. 29,
1779, March 27,
*7>
May
20,
1782,
5-
10.
2,
4.
Deferter 1.
Pigot.
Mr. Mafoa.
the cellar,
dampf
Felons &c.
Salary,
FOR
o.
Felons &.
ward,
0:3:
Felons,
Number,
is
two windows
free
fteps
night-rooms are dungeons from 5 to 7 fteps under-ground. They fleep on thick mats
on the floor ; which, if cribs and coverlets were added, would be better than draw.
The whole
Two
clofe
rooms
and
offenfive.
lately built
Court
{"mall,
for an infirmary
1774, three debtors and a felon died of the fmall-pox. Of that difeafe I was
informed few ever recover in this gaol. The caftle-hill is near the fhir^-hall, and is
In
air
and water.
*
t This feems
1
3th
Nov.
to
be the low
By
I
this,
who
printed
it,
fet
with other
letters
down
in
letters
from
pri-
my
remarks, are of
long ftanding.
S f
Claufes
Remarks.
LEICESTERSHIRE.
Leices-
County
Gaol.
Midland Circuit.
Claufes of the act againft the ufe of fpirituous liquors painted on the fame board
tne ta l e f fees
as
Here,
An
health *.
for
many
as in
The
infeription
by turnkeys or
act.
other gaols,
an ufelefs
on a board
make an annual
tub,
collection
it
The
and a
mod
of
inclement feafon.
The
promote the
Leicejier
There
is
collections
in
1774 amounted
for the
fum
a table of the
lift
The
brief.
whom
to be alked
by a kind of voluntary
to the clergy
" No money
fatisfaction
up.
and
is
hung
for
is
all
and an
the prifoners
to 74..
found in
1776 the accounts were kept, and the application of the money chiefly directed by
I wifh every county would imitate this exemplary
John Simpfon, Efq. of L.eicefter.
benevolence
affiduous.
12
6;
and
am
wifh every county that does fo, a fteward equally faithful and
in
1780, to
A Table
Le'ceferjhirc
9;
of
and
Fees
It
amounted
1781, to 3
in
to be taken
by
the
18
Keeper of
in
1779 only
this
Gaol.
-024
For
A room of every prifoner who finds his own bed per week
A room, called the cellar, for debtors if they find their own
For the copy of every warrant or commitment
Thomas a Becket
We
his
JV Wrighte.
SeJJions.
S.
13
D.
4
-02.0
.000
-010
-010
o
bed
to-
o.
be taken.
Ch Hutchinfon
John Danvers
TV. Cant.
"We the Judges of Aflize for the County of Leicefler have reviewed and do hereby confirm the above Table
Given under our Hands this 17th Day of Auguft 1759
of Fees.
T. Parker
" The above
In
my
is
prifons I
Ja.
Hewitt.
is
no bath,
all
gaols in the
I would here alfo remind gentlemen, that when baths are proAil for preferring the health of prifoners.
vided in compliance with the acl, if they be not made convenient, fo that felons in their irons may commo-
dioufly ufe
benefit
them
and
if there is
thefe
little
or no
LEICESTER.
Midland
LEICESTERSHIRE.
Circuit.
3 T5
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
LEICESTER.
No
" By
women; one
of thefe
hung up.
be
after
There was
o'clock in the
for
Court not
painted on a board,
fhall
above
five
it.
month's confinement.
"
"
men
for
chimneys.
this
Evening on a week-day."
In a former edition
the clay-wall, there would be no need of a chain and log, to fecure the prifoners in
The apartments
the court.
if
6 per
At my
laft vifit,
This prifon
would be more
airy,
women might
let
by
annum.
a proper feparation of
The
alfo
the narrow court were enlarged from the orchard, which was
be feparated,
The
now
prifoners
but there
is
not
prifoners
bedfteads.
Seffions
and from
to
1779
i775> J an
3> Prifoners 3.
2.
1776, Oct. 29, -
MELTON -MOWBRAY.
Keeper's
built
falary,
him a
little
He
4.
from
1780
Two
May
2,
feet
1782,
by
8.
2.
nine: no chimney.
formerly paid rent for a cottage, but the county has lately
No
court,
No
water.
HINKLEY.
another for
779> Sep.
women (10
feet
by
1782,
21.,
May
2,
prifoners.
8).
No
no water.
'
men ;
Keeper's
falary, .4:
ing-,
but
at
in
my
3
laft vifit,
it
was
far otherwife.
1779,
March
Sf
2 S,
1782,
May
1,
No
prifoners.
LEICESTER
BrideWE Ls#
LEICESTERSHIRE.
3 i6
LEICESTER TOWN
L
ES "
G A0jler
and
Midland Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL.
>
-Jer
Salary,
none
Fees,
Debtors.")
now
William Jordan.
he pays rent 3.
Felons,
Tranfports,
10
Licence,
Beer to deputy.
each.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, 7 1
Felons
Garnifh,
Felons,
Number,
Remarks.
1,
2.
1,
o.
17.82,
May
2,
See
Felons
1,
2.
3,
2.
2,
3.
none.
Mr. Maule.
none
Salary,
Debtors.
5.
5,
11,
&c
Felons
Debtors.
1774, April 4,
i775> Jan.
3,
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
11
0:4: 6.
0:2:6.
Debtors,
Nov.
May 1782,
he makes a
bill.
A common
five fteps
debtors.
plenty of water,
fpirituous liquors,
but there
is
now a
ad
fevvers
for
very offenfive.
are
hung up
table of fees.
At my laft vifit, William Slack, one of the felons had received his majefty's free
pardon (April 9), and was ordered " to be fet at liberty" figned Shelburne ; but for
the fees of the fecretary of ftate
ftill
(1:7:6)
Borough of
A Table
of
Fees
and clerk of
aflize
(1
o) the par-
in prifon.
to
Leiceficr in the
County of Leicefer.
faid
Borough.
For
his
own bed
fer
week
D.
,024
.010
.
S.
4
For
LEICESTERSHIRE.
Midland Circuit.
317
.020
-000
-010
-010
-010
.019
.
For
For figning a
At
certificate in
commitment
own bed
to
pay
S.
D.
Attending upon every prifoner to give bail, fpecial bail, habeas or any thing neceflary to
go out of goal for every mile travelling
'
Michaelmas
We
1776.
Leicejler aforefaid
Seffions
/.
to the turnkey
jury,
Juftices
do hereby allow the above Fees to be taken (the 13*. ^d. above
and who, on
his
or her
trial fhall
whom no
bill
of indictment
(hall
to the gaoler
and the
We
borough of
Rob*. Peach.
Leicejler aforefaid
Jofh
Jobnfon.
this
G. Nares.
S. S. Smythe.
" This
is
in the
women.
five fteps,
3776, Oct.
29,
1782,
May
2,
Prifoners o.
-
o.
o.
DERBYSHIRE.
Leicester.
DERBYSHIRE.
COUNTY GAOL
Derby.
GAOLER,
Midland Circuit.
DERBY.
at
Blyth Simpfon.
Salary,
20.
Fees,
Debtors,")
(See Remarks.)
Tranfports,
Licence,
Beer.
17
Felons,
'
'
o each.
'
(See Remarks.)
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, ") per week,
Felons,
0:3:6,
Garnifh,
Number,
1773, Nov.
Debtors.
an(j
Felons
18,
4,
3.
2,
8,
10.
12,
8.
1774, April
CHAPLAIN,
Rev. Mr.
Seal,
Debton.
May
10,
felons
Felons &c
7.
14,
12,
6.
13,
12.
1779,
the Rev.
Imp.
Def. 3;
5.
Deferter
ti
Mr. Henry.
Duty,
Salary,
30.
SURGEON,
and
cc.
now
loaves,
Mr. Harn/on.
Salary,
Three guineas
&c.
30
.Remarks.
THIS gaol, built in 1757, is in an airy healthy fituation. The debtors court
and ward very properly feparate from thofe for felons, but not from the bridewell.
The debtors floors are bad tarras, not eafily warned. The windows in general too
fmall and clofe glazed.
The
30
court there
for
women
fquare.
is
for
men
rooms
for
feffions
an infirmary.
in lieu of tranfports.
3 fteps
copper juft by to
There
is
court
work-room,
dungeon, 234
the felons
feet
diameter:
a bath
warm
the
prifoners wafli in
Above
it
before
two
new room or parlour at the keeper's houfe,
circumftance keeps them quiet and orderly.
water.
are
alfo a
this
condemned room.
^10
and quarter
affize
The
alfo the
He
carries
a book, in
his
TABLE
DERBYSHIRE.
TABLE OF FEES.
Midland Circuit.
Derbyjbire, to <wit.
3*9
Berbtt
firfl:
County
week
Gaol,
Tbornhill,
Sec.
Juftices,
ordered
that the
following Fees
be
Keeper and no
taken by the
other.
>
in his houfe per
week
To
For
the
the turnkey
For figning a
it is
Gaol do
Peace do caufe
as
room
to be printed,
and the
E. Clive.
CHESTERFIELD.
at
for a bridewell,
was built
the Court,
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
6 inches fquare.
in the floor,
o
o
Order
this
T. Parker.
8 fteps
County of Derby have reviewed and do hereby confirm the above writtea
Given under our hand: at Derby the ith day of Auguft 1764.
Table of Fees.
For men,
o
o
0
1614.
By
We
the
And
certificate,
Keeper of
room
it
for
in~
down
women up
ftairs.
No
ftraw.
Nothing
the zvomen, of the fame dimenfions as that for the men, in which
committed
I
am
year
to the houfe
but the
.Da//.
woman
CM.
is
Burn,
c. 4.)
juftices
of the peace
not to be apprehended
fet to
till
are-
empowered
to
commit
10J.
Before this rigorous law is put in execution, however, gentlemen would do well to inquire whether
p.
overfeers of the poor have not procured fuch warrants only to fatie parijh expences
many
known,
I believe this to
weak
lewd women
See
for baftardy
ftate,
culprit.
to her
miferable habitations
DERBYSHIRE.
320
Chesterfield.
May
1779,
2.
14, Prifoner 1.
-
1.
Midland Circuit.
Def
Impreffed
3.
Deferter
1 *.
3.
r
.
I.
Two
the bridewell.
alfo
rooms
fecure,
is
of
for debtors
up
offenders.
The whole
ufe.
little
No
paper
in the
1776,
Oct..
29, Debtors
2.
Felons
1779,
May
14,
o.
4.
to
under
cellar
The
firft.
them
who
prifoners,
refpective
and
fliilling
Two
parifhes.
it
2.
is
me
the property of
pays
iZ
12
when
had
their groats
No
bailiff,
lives
diftant.
left
was there
one of
it
from the
allowance
creditors
no ftraw
Each
to the reft.
was
it
They had
faid.
caft
on
their
no
firing
water
found in
by a poor
many
for
I
in
to
cellar
told
been compaffionately
fix
o.
wife-,
prifoner,
that
it
might be fome
which had
relief to
his
fucceflbrs.
Debtors 4.
Odt. 28,
* This
keeper of
Sec. 2.
of them had a
unhappy
as
with tears in his eyes, " he had not eaten a morfel that day
afternoon.
Gaoler a
offenfive.
gaoler
as
table.
The
falary
feet
and
in bread.
CHESTERFIELD
months.
debtors kitchen.
for felons
ruinous, dirty
no
bridewell, .5.
pence weekly
one
deferter
fame offence
for defertion,
tranfported ; and
was never taken.
their grandfather
The
keeper's
his brother
who wa6
who was
May
1779,
14,
1.
was
Debtors
-
o.
o.
his
was
my
informant.
M
3
OTTINGHAM-
>
Midland
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.
Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
321
NOTTINGHAM.
at
Nottingham.
Richard Bonington.
20.
Salary,
Debtors,
Fees,
Felons,
Tranfports,
Licence,
Beer.
'
17
6 each.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, three-halfpennyworth of bread a day.
three-halfpennyworth of bread and a halfpenny in
Felons,
i^\oz.
lib.
Number,
10.
19,
12,
5.
n>
6.
12.
1774,
April
3,
12,
2.
1779,
1775,
Jan.
4,
10,
Nov.
12,
4,
11.
SURGEON,
Mr.
now Mr.
Bettefon,
Salary,
on the
is
fide
Patridge.
and
for debtors
of a
For
hill.
felons.
At my
feet
condemned room.
fandy rock, very damp: one of
who can
diameter
FIons See.
4,
4,
Duty,
is
1775,
17,
Salary,
which
Debtors.
Felons &c.
Debtors.
Nov.
gaol
money
Jan,
in Sep.
1773,
CHAPLAIN,
THE
loaf in
prohibited.
Garnifh,
Down
Down
three -penny
day (weight of
every
pay, and a
is
about 12 feet
draw on barrack-beds.
laft vifit,
more
being palifaded
they had
both well and river water ; and there was an entire feparation of debtors and felons.
The women
than two
women, they
tub
juft by, to
it
room
are at night in
(not, as in
warm
is
in a
when
When
there are
more
commodious
neceflary.
The
infirmary
is
is
near
it,
have allowed the gaoler to fupply the fick with better nourishment, &c. to
she
Remarks.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.
3^2
Not t
nc-
amount of feven
the
The
Gaol.
fo
prifoners have the choice of wheaten or houfehold bread; the weight of the
latter.
Tranfports condemned at
fix
Gentlemen
week.
will, I
County
(hillings a
Midland Circuit.
afiizes
Here
(as at
Derby) a man goes round the county about Chriftmas, and begs
He
No
Service
chapel.
performed
is
a year
in a parlour,
in 17 81
which
is
gen-
at
carries
their
it
was 34.
it
too fmall.
Prifoners are tried in clothes provided for that purpofe by the county *.
of
For
8.
tranfports
thefe,
fees, the
flate
gaol in
in this
affize,
fees
London of
William Berks.
in
prifon.
TABLE OF
NotHnghamJbire.
FEES.
week
'*''
And
to the
S.
D.
by
the
diet per
week
week
-014
"
020
006
'-
'
.
with the gaoler, by the
diets himfelf,
finds his
diets
"
For each when he hath a room and bed of the gaoler and
For the difcharge of each prifoner
January 1760.
At the Quarter
gaoler is to take notice if he takes more than the above fums he is liable to forfeit to the
party aggrieved for each offence the fum of fifty found* (exclufive of the penalties infli&ed by former
The
afts).
We
direft the
Deputy Clerk of
faid
may
require,
and be preferved
now and
County where
in the faid
Gaol, to be reforted to
may
be infpefted as occafions
day time
M.
W.
Mujiers
J. White
Bilbie
W>. Kirke
H.
Sherbrooke
Geo. Mafon.
Witnefs
my hand
of March 1760
H. Bathurst.
A true
me
John Hurjl deputy clerk of the peace.
* Se
more
Nottingham/hi'e.
Midland
Nottingham/hire.
common Gaol
in the
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.
Circuit.
323
Table of the feveral Gifts, Legacies and Bequefts for the benefit-of poor Prisoners
of
County,
this
by us
as fettled
Peace this
of the
8th day of
Purfuant to the late Aft of Parliament and according to the belt information we'can get, as
Jan. 1760.
Notting-
ham
County
follows.
eftate at
Efq. of Nottingham, the yearly fum of four pounds, paid quarterly out of an
Mr. Sherwin's father of fome of the defcendants of Henry Handle/
By John Shtrwin
We
monthly
purfuant to the directions of the will of Mr. Abel Collings deceafed, four
Efquire.
We
for thefe
Hutchinfon,
paft.
made
county
in the
We
order this table to be tranfmitted to the deputy clerk of the peace for this county, to be entered
the
rolls
of
and
in a confpicuous
manner,
fo as the prifoners
may have
among
where
And
copy
hung up by him
there, in
the day time, without paying any thing for the fame.
M.
Mufiers
J. TVhite
TV. Bitbie
H.
TV'-. Kirke
Geo.
true copy
A. C.
Sherbrooke
Mafon
me
John Hurft,
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
This
is
alfo
SOUTHWELL.
at
this
archbiihop of York.
fteps,
The
the
14
feet fquare
and
ground
is
room on
is.
-]\ feet
1656.
high
In
floor,
years,, the
the
window
is
in this court:
for the
women,
latter
a court might be
hung
he makes a
weighed
1 lb.
hold bread, 2
bill.
5!
lb.
my
11 oz.
at
firft vifit;
my
lad
at
vifit,
my
keeper
fells
them
for three-pence)
up.
of bread.
lb.
my
at
three-penny loaf
third,
of good houfe-
2 oz.
Some
No
is
made out of
fecond, 2
inches.
Allowance, three-halfpennyworth
oz. at
pump
men one
down 10
du.igeon
one of the
damp
flax
is
the
keeper's.
Brtd
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.
3H
Southwell.
keeper's.
fhoemaker
no table
common
He
trade.
is
N.
and fix-pence.
three millings
vagrants."
own
at his
Midland Circuit.
informed
me
None
B.
is
" The
fees
of
9.
Prifoners 17.
13.
9.
Prifoners
-'
NOTTINGHAM TOWN
GAOLER,
COUNTY
and
GAOL.
Salary,
^8.
Fees,
Debtors,
0
o
o
Felons,
Tranfports,
Licence,
if
under 10.
14
if
14
8.
17
in
London.
each.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
(See Remarks.)
Garnifh,
Number,
Debtors.
1773,
Nov.
i775>
J an
THIS
ice.
1776,
Sep. 25,
o,
o.
4,
3>
i779>
*9>
2>
12,
5,
2.
1782,
Jan. 21,
1,
1.
none.
none
ftated.
The mayor
orders one
a year.
Three rooms on
the
when wanted.
much improved.
a
Felons &c.
2.
Debtors.
5,
Nov.
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
Felons
17,
coals.
hung up.
was hung up, dated the 10th of April 1777, figned by Vbo. Sands,
Mayor, Rich. Butler and John Fellows, Aldermen, and confirmed by W. H. Ashurst,
table of fees
NOTTINGHAM
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.
Midland Circuit.
there
rooms
no
fire-place
is
fpirituous liquors
Here
No
Water
in
town,
their
may
it
no
1779,
o.
1782,
Jan, 21,
2.
TOWN
GAOL,
up
largelt
flairs
where
^d.
is.
o.
and
BRIDEWELL.
12 feet by
1 1.
No
court
no water
ftraw.
Among
no fewer.
fees,
Keeper
lives at a public
Allowance,
4 s. notable.
improvements
the various
ground behind
BASFOR
Prifoners
fees,
Sep. 25,
ftreet, it is
at a little diftance
falary,
Sep. 19,
upon Trent
court, although
a kitchen,
1776,
from
is
Keeper's
NEWARK
in this
fteps.
fewer.
houfe
No
is
Two
make fome
that are
making
it ?
1776,
Sep.
23,
1779,
Sep.
.20,
1782,
Nov.
Prifoners
-
17,
This
is
2.
o.
o.
Deferters
-
2.
4.
of the
court of record of his honour of Peverel, and additional limits of the fame in the
counties of
The
s.
fex,
he made ufe of
The
fifty
it
little
room
One room
for women-prifoners
The
houfe
is
but
his freehold.
fifty
pounds,
pounds.
3.
2.
LXX.
LINCOLNSHIRE.
Nott
HAM.
LINCOLNSHIRE.
3 26
COUNTY
Lincoln.
GAOLER,
Ifaac
Salary,
none.
Midland Circuit.
Wood.
as
below ; and
to
pay
land-tax,
Fees,
Debtors,")
Felons,
}<>
8:8:0
Tranfports,
14
4.
for each:
and 13
s.
^d.
He
paid the
Licence,
Beer
He
Tap.
the
lets
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors,
Remarks, fame
if certified as in
Felons,
as felons.
common
in
0:2:
Garnifh,
6.
Number,
i
776
Jan. 27,
22,
if,.
Oa.
29,
14,
Jan. 31,
23,
18.
Sep. 23,
12,
CHAPLAINS,
Debtors.
Felons &c.
Debtors.
774j
Felons &c.
May
6,
22,
14.
1782, Feb.
1,
30,
3.
1779,
Dutch
prifoners of war 7 *.
3.
and Dr.
Waldgrave by
his
curate the
Rev.
Duty,
Salary,
Mr. Simp/on 5,
35 per
The
{hillings a
Sec. fee
Remarks
Mr.
Bennet, Sunday.
SURGEON,
THE
Remarks.
caftle
year.
The
acres.
(6 A.
Mr.
Parnell.
20.
Salary,
3 R. 27 P.)
On
keep
it
in
repair.
room, &c.
For
The
floors
of both
ftories are
tarras,
rooms on the
firft
ftory
and
as
many
garrets.
The
It
is
free
ward
for debtors
is
(tones,
only a
room
and
a thorough-fare
is
at
down
fundry places.
2 fteps.
Firft,
by
a trap-
LINCOLNSHIRE.
Midland Circuit.
trap-door
the
in
pavement there
faid
14 inches;
9 inches by 18
a paflage to the
little
it,
condemned
the
draw on the
fhort
of 10 fieps
a defcent
is
two vaulted
to
feet
floors
is
11 feet
by 8);
and
by
window about
by 7;
feet
14
cell,
feet
It is alio
to
no water: no fewer;
(43 feet by 26-|), and their fizeable day-room (15 feet by 19)
and to a room for the clofer confinement of debtors who do not behave well. There
:
are
who
to which there
is
another
way.
No
chapel
fervice
is
performed
repair *
allowance,
it
is
hung up,
is
amount of 3
The
no bath.
prifon
out of
is
is
a year;
minifter,
infirmary
The whole
Mr. Wood,
*S
An
No
the Shire-hall.
in
all
county
The
his parifh.
fort
make
debtors
confiderable
in a
Mr. Simp/on's falary, 5, is from a legacy of 'Thomas Hejleden and for attending condemned criminals he has five guineas from the fheriff. Mr. Thomas Hejleden left alfo
;
a year, for the better maintenance of the poor prifoners in the caftle.
ment of
will
two
thefe
legacies, he
bound an
eftate called
Works Chantry
at
His
120
to the debtors
Eafter
Monday
in
this
will
if the
whole
the intereft of
left
among them
intereft for
one year
is
annually on
fufficient to
difcharge any one debtor, within fourteen days of the time of payment, the faid
fum
ihall
many
* If the gentlemen
county hofpital in
On
in
17 15,
bequeathed the
years paft f.
this city,
is
an
it
may be hoped
it
will
be a more
tarras floors.
Tabu
Lincoln
c
LINCOLNSHIRE.
Lincoln
A Table
Fees
Midland Circuit.
to be
taken by the Gaoler or Keeper of the Gaol for the County of Lincoln
of
and Rules for Government fettled purfuant to a late At\ for Relief of Debtors* &c.
County
Gaol.
...
Every prifoner
Every prifoner
pay
fhall
pence
firft
coming
if
And
lie
in the fame
chambers on the
firft.
bed then
floor fhall
his
But
fhall
to be paid
D.
S-
and eight-
weekly
-068
-013
-026
026
bed
the houfe.
Every
and eight-pence
To
felon to
pay
pence
upon
to the gaoler
The
when he
..
to the act
to
table
to
pay
ale a
day
common
have neceflaries of
between
brought
whom two
life
grate
(hall quietly
\lb.
go
to
between
fix in
040
neceflitous *
Lady-day
at eight
and no
later
Lady-
quart of
&c.
and every
and
-
adjudge
-050
juftices
0134
week
Every debtor
week
may
-0134
five (hillings
-
Michaelmas
fometimes three
and four-pence
firft
day
010
aflize
If he eats at the fecond table then he (hall pay but four (hillings a
Every debtor
-013
-
is
lodging
and four-
for tranfportation,
Every prifoner
(hillings
-
months, and often longer, to be paid for each felon by the treafurer
fix
pence
condemned
months, fometimes
of prifon thirteen
068
010
fix (hillings
of the prifon
be no more than
Every
To
to
whofoever
at nine in the
(hall refufe
(hall
evening
on proof be
cver, Shall
money, chamber-money
cards
require any
feeing Lufey
if a
common
fum of two
fhillings
more
it
any
felon's
fum of
week and no
{.
* See Rimarks
f
\
preceding,
two pence.
lave tranferibed
it
verbatim.
Any
LINCOLNSHIRE.
Midland Circuit.
Any
perfon removed by habeas corpus to pay the fame fees as other prifoners
prifoner
a time,
We
his
making water
fo
to
as
annoy
329
when
bucket to
Lincoln
difcharged.
lofe his allowance
for
Count y
Gaol.
Sec.
Majefty's Juftices of the Peace for the Divifion of Lindfey, in the County of Lincoln, Affembled
have examined the above Table of Fees with the Rules and Orders and do allow
and confirm the fame the 12th day of April 1768
at
Spiljby
H:
IV" Majfingberd
.
We
his
the
Majefty's Juftices
fame 13th
April 1768
John
We
his Majefty's
Ed mils
Marfiall
the
for
Ric Wright
Bejl
Juftices
Dcd Jones
Rob' Burne
Tliorold
for
do
Leo
Brown.
Ri
We
H. B.
Falkner
Ri
Pacey
Fydell
Linton
Jun r .
R.
the Judges of Aflize for the County of Lincoln have reviewed the above
Rules and
the fame.
Fydell
Calthorp.
1768.
T. Parker.
E. Clive.
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
GAINSBOROUGH.
rooms up
no ftraw
ftairs
Two
a court
no allowance
33
feet fquare, in
May
5.
4.
FOLKINGHAM.
His
at
falary,
^30.
Lunatics
-
who was
for a lunatic,
feet
2.
by 9
is
no
pump
I
dungeon (10
:
no fewer.
was furprifed
inches high,
In
Yet
to find a lunatic
54.
woman
rooms,
The
feet 9
damp
The women's
room
fees.
3.
No
Prifoners 3.
6,
1779,
hemp
feet
high).
with a child
another
room 204
in the floor
No
at
feet
by
chimney:
fmall
court:
for
Bridewells.
LINCOLNSHIRE.
33
Bridewells.
for a
expence.
His
falary,
1774, Oct.
28,
May
Fees,
Prifoners
9,5.
4^.
he
no
muft allow
e^ch
prifoner
Lun.
2.
fix-
table.
4.
5,
which
out of
1779,
Conveyance
37
Midland Circuit.
2.
1.
SPALDING.
This prifon, lately built, has feveral (izeable airy rooms 13 feet
by 10 chimneys in two of them. A work-room 28 feet by 9.1. The underrooms vaulted, 1 2~ feet by 94, and 7 feet high the entrance is by a trap-door
from the upper rooms. There is a pump now in the court, which not being
:
have no accefs to
it.
hung up
fpirituous liquors
as alfo
is
the
late
no
Surgeon's
table.
there were
473
falary,
prifoners, of
In
12.
whom
41
the
act
for
were debtors.
By
Claufes
preferving the
Keeper's falary,
twelve years
When
a day.
38
preceding
fees,
1782,
of requefls for the hundred of Ellas, in this county, the debtors mail remain in
1776, Feb.
Prifoners
2,
4.
13.
LINCOLN CITY
GAOLER,
Francis
,20.
Fees,
Debtors,
>-
Felons,
Tranfports,
10
Beer.
Prifoners
-
2.
4.
COUNTY GAOL.
Ttyn.
Salary,
Licence,
and
8.
each.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons,
Garnifh,
one
Number,
Debtors.
Felons ice.
2.
1779,
May
6,
I,
O.
o,
I.
1782, Feb.
1,
I.
I.
Debtors.
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
(hilling,
31,
23,
Felons
&c.
2.
none.
none,
THIS
LINCOLNSHIRE.
Midland Circuit.
THIS
gaol,
flairs
vifit,
was locked up
The
aft
the
preferving
for
No
at night.
damp
a cage in
court
of
health
no water
fickly criminal
accefiible to
hung
not
prifoners
for criminals
them (13
In one of
earth floors.
which the
men-debtors, one
for
The rooms
in each a fire-place.
fteps
is
has
Stone-bozv gate,
are
the
at
women, both up
{"mailer for
faw
prifoners
up.
no
Claufes
feet
my
at
laft
ftraw.
againfl:
*.
A Table
of
within
14th day of
on the
wit,
the
firft
fettled
33d
the
in
July
of
George
II
1759
purfuant
an
to
held
at
Martyr
to
Seflions
Thomas the
At for Relief of
Debtors &c.
Every debtor
no more
Any
bed belonging
that lies in a
-
lodging
is
to
pay one
Every
felon
is
to
pay
is
millings
fix
and eight
Ihillings
fix
If not continued in prifon above a week then to pay only three fhillings and four pence
Every prifoner
that
will
gaoler
is
to
pay for
We
the
Mayor
is
more
pay the
Drewry
Ger. Gib/on
Jn\ Hooton
Ew d
John Broivn
Rob'. Thlckfion
John TVUfon
Jn. Davies
Edw*. Letherland
Fowllr
Brox m Brown
.
fame
-046
-034
to
Rob'.
Rob. Obbinfon,
068
068
o
or feflions
aflize
gaoler for his difcharge three fhillings and four pence and no
his
00
of prifon
of prifon
for his
D.
-010
pay nothing
to
S.
weekly and
Ihilling
pay one
in feveral
to
common room
for debt
prifoner
in the
it
is
Every
to the keeper
this
this
Parker
Ja Hewitt.
Examined by
On my
Jofp.
how
and
debtors
having nearly
loft,
his
felons
life
ufed to
againfl:
fpirituous liquors
be ferved with
felons
were hung
who was
intoxicated,
he
copied out the claufes from Burn, flawed them to the publicans, and thus put an end to the practice
When
frequently replied,
How
is it
Uu
handed
up?
in at the ftreet
windows
BOSTON
Remarks.
LINCOLNSHIRE.
BOSTON Town
rooms about 14
room 9
by 5)
feet 3
Gaol.
alfo the
is
Two damp
bridewell.
women
for
offenfive
and two
Fees,
This
feet
Midland Circuit.
2 s.
hung up.
not
Salary,
as
10;
gaoler,
as keeper,
5.
6d.
STAMFORD Town
down, and
new
prifon
The
Gaol.
is
Felons &c. 2.
-
o.
prifon
for
taken
is
debtors in
3:6:8.
is
hung up.
not
new
cells.
26,
The Town
A Table
up
in
offenfive
their
an
arreft
For waiting
upon bair
for bail
o,
i_
o,
2.
Felons Sec.
Debtors.
o,
o.
o,
2.
at the
For
To
To
To
Lodging
the perfon
who
lie
S-
D.
0100
060
-010
-004
-
on the Common-fide.
0100
-020
002
the keeper of the houfa of correction for every perfon committed for the
Every day
and
article or two.
Felons &c.
.
For every
of
The
Debtors.
inftead
unhealthy
of prifoners
firft
010
006
-001
-
night
RUTLANDSHIRE
RUTLANDSHIRE.
Midland Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
William Lumley>
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
now Henry
10
Licence,
Feer.
OAKHAM,
Lumley.
~)
Felons,
Tranfports,
at
353
14
IO -
each.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors,
Felons
one
Garnifh,
'
Felons &c.
Debtors.
o,
o.
1,
2.
1776, Sep.
o,
o.
Salary,
23,
1774, Jan.
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
f
three-halfpence
a day each, in bread.
Ihilling.
Number,
THIS
>
2.6,
Debtors.
1782,
May
Felons &c.
5,
5.
21,
3,
1.
3,
2,
3,
Deferters
none.
Mr.
5.
now Mr.
Bullivant,
:.
Berry,
o.
is
On
empty.
the ground-floor
is
by 6 feet 4 inches), the gaoler has made apertures in the door. Up flairs are two
rooms ftrongly planked with oak in each of them are two beds, for thofe that pay.
There is a large work-room, but there were no rooms proper for the feparation of
:
up
The
felons
pump,
the
is
The whole
They have
deftitute prifoners.
fees.
not
court
chimney.
felons court.
mod
alfo
His
down
prilbn
is
thatched.
which intercepting
another
pump
in the
is
20.
No
table of
Act for preferving the health of prifoners, and claufes againft fpirituous liquors,
hung up.
The
prefent
gaoler's
father}
grandfatl-c;
iui
great
grandfather,
held
the
fame
office.
NORTHAMPTON-
Remarks.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
334
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
NorthAMPTON.
John
Midland Circuit.
NORTHAMPTON.
at
Scofield.
.
Salary,
now ^30.
He
Fees,
Debtors,")
1^
Felons,
*
'
more, 6
if
40
a year.
4>
16
6 each.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons,
Garnilh,
Felons,
0:6:0.
0:2:6.
Number,
Debtors.
Felons &c.
Debtors.
Felons
9,
8.
1779,
M ar
25,
9-
1774, April
'775* Jan.
*77 6 >
5,
6,
4.
Nov. 24,
15.
2,
8,
7.
10.
5>
7>
I2
CHAPLAIN, Rev.
i\oz.)
lib.
meat.
for
Sec.
Mr. MTfcr.
Duty,
Salary,
SURGEON,
APOTHECARY,
THIS
Remarks.
from
gaol
is
Mr.
felons.
Mr.
Mr.
Kerr.
Breton. J
alfo the
Scofield
Salary, none.
They make
bill.
county bridewell;
had a
falary of
^36
10
as
he has 30 added. Three courts; but the two for felons are too clofe. No ftraw.
The county have built feven commodious rooms (7 feet 9 inches by 6 feet), for
felons
day-room
for
The
(till
felons,
clofe
1 1
fteps
The
is
all
at
makers, &c.
The
room
in
more conveniently
fituated.
No
when
infirmary,
nor bath.
The
it
flairs
aft
rauft
;
but
have been
now
for preferving
it
is
the
health
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
Midland Circuit.
now
is
hung up
figned and
" no
to
At
nvit.
County, on Thurfday
faid
- the
Efq.
Ijled,
Brok
and
Bridges,
Seffions
Day
Sixteenth
Reign of our
Ambrofe
occafioned
me on my
my faying
table of
former
in
vifits
the
firfl
table of fees."
Northampton/hire,
which
hung up.
not
that
335
before
of the
Reverend John
the
Clerks;
Addington,
Charles
Peace holden
at Northampton,
in
Do&or
Hill,
Juftices
of
of Laws
the
King, afligned to keep the Peace within the faid County, &c.
It
by
ordered,
is
Court,
this
that
the
following Rates
and no other
by the Keeper of
-020
-0134
.
For figning
For
regiftering a declaration,
fo
it
further Ordered,
is
confirmed,
Copy
that a
Copy
Grand -jury
in the
in
oio-020
oio
laid before
and confirmation
their revifal
hung up
County, for
thereof be
the
020
D.
ft
020
the
that
in
And
for debt,-
Affizes
week,
his
(hall
be
gallery.
By
the Court,
We,
above-written
fourth day of
Table of
Fees.
at the
Affizes
holden
at
Northampton,
the
March, 1777.
SmythHo
G. Nares,
S. S.
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
KETTERING.
On
the front
burnt Nov.
is
This prifon
is
5,
1766."
room
a lodging-room 8 feet by
Court
is
the
in
an infcription, that
for
54.,
tf
men
184. feet
by
154., in
which down
fteps
n.
fize as
fewer.
Claufes
94
feet fquare.
againft
fpirituous
liquors not
hung up.
Keeper's
falary,
12,
Fees 5
County
Gaol.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
336
Fees, 2
BrideWELLS.
6d.
J.
1780, to
OUNDLE.
the whole
15
10
Midland Circuit.
o.
five prifoners.
2.
is
by the county
rented
It is
May
1782,
4,
1.
NORTHAMPTON TOWN
Two
for debtors.
The
a day each.
no
falary
gaoler
PETERBOROUGH
thirty-two towns,
is
meriff's officer
Gaol,
For the
the property of
pence
he has
table.
Deferter
a court
allowed two
are
2.
Felons
the ftreet.
13^ \d. no
Fees,
5, Debtors
1776, Jan.
towards
a bailiff and
is
felons
for
are
courts
GAOL.
Lord
the
liberty called
Exeter.
It
is
now
Soke,
1.
4.
which contains
Peter otherwife
St.
Peterborough.
Two
which
good rooms
the
is
window
the gaol
in
for
door 13 inches by
and down
debtors,
condemned room
No
Claufes
allowance.
for
beer:
ys.
fteps
for
fees,
room
hung
there
againft
is
fpirituous
Keeper's falary,
up.
near
The
and death.
He
12:
and
act
licence
pays window-tax
1:6:0.
1774,
Od.
1776,
Sep. 26,
3.
1779,
Sep. 21,
1.
o.
1782,
May
1.
3.
PETERBOROUGH
floor a
for
women
no chimney.
a hemp-dreffer.
28,
Debtors
3,
Bridewell.
a
room
Up
lately
ftairs,
two
2.
Deferter
f.
For the Soke, as above, has on the grounddivided into a part for men, and another
the keeper
rooms or hemp-warehoufes
:
prifoners always
within
BERKSHIRE.
Oxford Circuit.
No
within doors.
falary only
6d. no
s.
hung up.
1.
i.
1782,
No
l
Gaol. A room
no court: no
BRACKLEY
Gaol.
room
Aperture
The
water.
Nov.
1779,
5,
1.
o.
3,
24,
in the
door 8 inches by 6.
Oft. 13,
1779,
May
fire-place:
ll6> Jan.
Keeper's
table.
DAVENTRY
by ii.
water.
fees,
337
Peterborough,
No
No
prifoners.
feet fquare,
The
under the
conftable
is
flair-
keeper.
prifoners.
OXFORD CIRCUIT.
BERKSHIRE.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
The Widow
Salary,
20.
Fees,
Debtors,
Tranfports,
Licence,
15
10.
14
4.
2:2:0
READING.
Felons,
at
now
Widow.
his
Reading,
each.
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Garnifh,
Felons,
Debtors,
0:5:6.
0:2:6.
Felons,
Number,
Debtors .
11,
11.
10,
6.
9>
15.
1776, Jan.
CHAPLAIN,
i,
Duty,
Salary,
31
SURGEON,
Salary,
10
Felons &c>
Deb{ors
1776, Sep.
Fdonj &<
25,
3,
8.
9,
9.
19,
11.
1782,
March
5,
ImprefTed
9.
Mr. Ty Heard.
10
for gaol
and bridewell.
Xx
READING.
BERKSHIRE.
33*
Oxford CiRcu-m
READING.
Reading
COU NTT
The
Gaol.
following verfes are written over the debtors grate to the ftreet
Oh
Behold the
That what
THIS
Remarks.
gaol
is
now
number of
The
a large
more
lately fitted
difficult.
The
women.
up
this
is
room
for
an infirmary
a fmall
(n
condemned room
Near
the
men
the
fteps:
turnkey has
that an efcape
fo
There
by 10).
feet
and for
a free ward.
is
prifoners.
will be
is
lately.
ye lend.
rails.
the mafter's-fide
and women.
God
to us ye give, to
two
or.
but no
made for feparating men-felons at night, except the convicts,, who have
now two rooms and a fmall court on the debtors fide. Tranfports have not the king's
provifion
allowance of is.
ftraw:
6 d. a week.
The
offenfive fewers.
chapel
church.
at
At
obferved that
the
much
is
on a board
Lent
in
in
afiize
The
too fmall.
hung up.
No-
and
at
my
the
laft
hands, but had heavy irons alfo on their legs, as they were conducted to the fefiions
houfe.
When
come
felons
two check
Ihirts,
to
this
a flannel petticoat,
petticoat,
prifon,
two dowlas
hung up
on again to appear
on
in
till
trial.
:.
the
fhifts,
women,
men and
five
women
coft only
26
hofe.
gown
8.
The
A gentleman
Orders- of this Gaol as fettled by the High-Sheriff and Juftices for this
County 1781.
-030
-016
.
Lodging
If occupied
On
week
if
ditto
bed
Turnkey
and.
Their own;
a linfey woolfey
--
S.
D.
026
x
The turnkey to attend the prifoners three times a day to bring them fuch piovifions and neceflanes as
twelve to one; for
ihall be required, <viz. For the hour of breakfaft, from nine to ten; for dinner, from
fupper, from
fix to
feven.
COUNTY
BERKSHIRE.
Oxford Circuit,
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
READING.
This
town bridewell.
alfo the
is
It
is
fpacious room, with four dark fufFocating huts on one fide for night-rooms, one
men
for
worn
10
changed
to duft, not
no
a year to
Keeper's falary,
them
find
1776, Jan.
worn
The
to
the county;
dirty
March
1782,
day-rooms
to duft,
pence a day.
2,
at
my
laft vifit,
fees,
for
Allowance,
At
4 s. 4^. notable.
Prifoners 3.
-
Keeper no
1776, Nov.
1,
J779, April
21,,
all
He
the town.
;
falary-:
Debtors
of
No
it.
fees, 4.S.
is
court
no water.
The
^d. no
table.
March
Mr. Hodgkin/on
me
is
5,
Prifoners o.
falary
am
of
10
10
and
alfo
Felons allowance,
Prifoners o.
alfo acquaints
1.
Compter.
or
1782,
2.
but as
Def.
3.
my
13.
in a
threepence a day.
for
5,
rooms
prove beneficial
work:
from
the town:
By
2 from
1776, Jan.
allowance to felons,
Two
**.
6.
vifits
no water
and
8 feet fquare:
if felons, three
my
fome orders
1,
Two
18 from
Prifoners 6.
1,
Nov.
men
court
lefs.
Men
dirty,
ftraw.
Collins, juftices,
ABINGDON.
is
15 feet 8 inches by
the
table.:
and Fcrd.
It
women
one for
and to petty offenders, two pint loaves each, every Sunday, and
No
fees, 4s.
months
for four
feet 9 inches;
The county
women are
infpeftion
hope
may
Xx*
ABINGDON
BkideWELLi
-
BERKSHIRE.
ABINGDON
for debtors
mace: no
Women
Allowance to
falary
court
no fewer
3.1.4^
felons 6
The
acceflible
s.
floor
firft
no water
in irons.
1782, Dec.
WI NDSOR
proprietor.
Debtor
The
25,
Felons &c. o.
1.
of Montague
who
1,
The duke
the duty.
three
No
pence a day.
felons, three
debtors
fees,
is
Several
to prifoners.
at
Town Gaol.
Oxford Circuit,
is
3.
It confifts
firft
and
floor
At .my
laft vifit
who
a foldier,
inftance I have
murdered
known of
himfelf.
fliot
in the
This
is
tap-room by
not the
firft
Such
are
The preamble
in the table
caftle
of Wind/or
recites,
"
that
" complaint having been made to me of fome abufes and irregularities committed in
" demanding and receiving fees the table being defaced, fo that the words and figures
" are hardly legible," &c. This table was made May ioth, the firft year of George II.
1728, fubfcribed
Carlifle.
As
mould be preferved
March
i779>
1782,
Prifoners 2.
'
"
14
1,
o.
Nov.
Two
Town Gaol.
1,
10>
rooms on the
firft
falary: fees, 6
s.
no
8 d.
March
WALLINGFORD
for
flails,
felons.
Nov.
Bailiff's
Under them
is
in
one: no
fells
beer:
Ward
Prifoners 3.
_
"
-
i,
Town Gaol.
1,
IO >
1779*
1782,
chimney
table.
1776,
floor; a
no
to
to prevent impofitions.
1776,
WINDSOR
refpecl:
large
Two
is
o.
rooms under
for debtors
dungeon,
filled
the
the other
council-chamber:
(planked round)
with market
benches for
&c.
1776, Nov.
Deferter
1.
i.
1,
OXFORD-
OXFORDSHIRE.
Oxford Circuit.
COUNTY
GAOLER,
OXFORD CASTLE.
GAOL,
Oxford
Solomon Wifdom.
10.
Salary,
341
Debtors,
Fees,
Felons,
Tranfports,
He made
Licence,
2.
15
10.
of the expence.
a bill
PRISONERS,
(See Remarks.)
County,
week
in bread ; City,
1 s,
(See Remarks.)
cancelled.
Garnifh,
Number,
Nov.
26,
1774 July
4>
1,776, Jan..
iy
Oft.
CHAPLAIN,
1779, Feb.
14,
I
I>
4;
10.
Dec. 25,
15-
14.
7>
12,
25,
July 29,
17.
IO.-
31,
Felons &c.
Debtors.
Felons &c;
Debtors.
1773:
31..
25,
Cotton.
Duty,
Salary,
SURGEON,
Mr. Rawlins.
FOR
for felons.-
25
Salary,
county pays
the general
own
number of
beds
40
prifonerj.
No
a
d.
free
ward
week
Mr.
a year to
their
6 d. each per
for
Etty,
who
holds
it
of
Their court
is
too fmall.
Felons day-room or hall for men and women down 5 fteps, 23 feet by 11, the men's
down 5 more 3 only fmall apertures: the women's nightdungeon (i8| feet by
room 6^
by 4
feet
feet 2 inches.
The
court
common
to both,
29
feet
by 23.
The.
Since the north-gate was taken down, this prifon has been alfo the City gaol
has
ftill
a year.
in the gaol
no ftraw
the prifoners
with vermin
in
1782,
lie
in
in
.In
in 1775',
June
were
fines.
The
acH
three recovered.
their clothes
fifteen
on mats.
many
years.
No
it
in
In
May;
infirmary
for
three-
no bath
prifoners
not
hung
Remarks*
OXFORDSHIRE.
hung
up.
In
April
tempt, with no
"
"
unto
to
as well
attach
the contempt
for
as
much
of
that bsqueft,
to the prifoners.
he altered
the
injury
done
government,
built
for
as
not
made
fhe has
till
con-
in
eftate
Oxfordshire
eftate
this
now only
difficulties
month.
he bound an
eftate,
now
is
his
thirty-three millings a
and
But
Berk (hire.
in
it,
among
ciiftributed
Horde
complaints
its
who was
'Thomas Horde,
eftate
church
in
it."
the chapel.
an
The
or fine.
charge
Oxford Circuit.
have a copy of
who
refult
it;
are
of Mr.
too long to
transcribe.
There is another legacy to prifoners of both forts 8 s. 2d. paid quarterly from
Magdalen college. From which alio in Lent there is about forty (hillings, commonly
Debtors have in common every Saturday fix pounds of mutton
called forfeit-money.
;
fent
at the
at
Oxford
Mr. Wifdum
ftones
for
*.
crowded,
if
man who
brings
it.
At
my
the
AJfize.
The
I fliould
fome of the
laft vifit
me
debtors
that fome years ago, wanting to build a litde hovel, and digging
purpofe, from the ruins of the court, which was formerly in the caftle, he found
college fend
New
very probable, that the rooms in this caftle are the fame as the prifoners
is
occupied
up
From two
who
Thefe were,
fage 9.
At
feveral of
ing, and
may
my
From
this fault,
are offenfive
tefters
The
and the
clofenefs
beyond conception.
is
The
Were
The fan-lights
they open,
in
it is
making a
it
as
hope to be excufed
the height of the loftieft wards not being above fifteen feet.
low
^e
air
this, as in
or,
many
at leaft,
the
The
OXFORDSHIRE.
Oxford CrRCuiT.
The
felons
day-room
paved with
is
ftones, in
flat
343
Oxford
Ca5tle *
be thus paved.
Michaelmas
Oxfordjhire, to ivit.
A Table
Fees and
of
Seffions
fettled
Chamber-Rent
in
II.
purfuance of an Aft
of
Debtors &c.
s.
To
To
To
To
the under-keeper
him
...
by any
juftice
or committed in court
To
no declaration
fherifF's
<y
13
4
6
0
0
0
To the under-keeper
To the mafter-keeper
For a copy of every
filed
warrant
0
0
...
week.
Every prifoner
room on
in a
by every Prifoner
as
Occafion
Room
fhall require.
Tbo s Pardo
Thomas BlackalL
John
0
0
--
the keeper's
D.
Dew*
John
Philip Powys.
Willis.
E. Probyn
J.
COMYNS*
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
THAME.
for a bridewell
prifon there
is
Y but
only
this houfe,
up
ftairs,
built in 1708,
it
is
common
now
a parifti work-houfe.
For
the
in
which
the
g RIDBa
vwtws
OXFORDSHIRE.
.344
Bridewells.
ufed as a bridewell,
firft
is
now
women
at
No
allowance
repair,
there
:
nor of locking up
fame room
in the
no employment
nor
at
my
but in Feb. 1779, tne prifoners were carding and fpinning: no water
vifits,
acceflible to prifoners
Keeper's falary,
at
as
Then
commodious one.
good
would be
it
Oxtord Circuit.
no fewers.
16:
^s. 6
fees,
hung up.
no
table.
At my two firfl vifits the keeper farmed the work-houfe and the reft of the poor
480 a year for the whole maintenance, clothing, medicines, &c. At my two
he farmed them
laft vifits,
and infecure.
500.
at
twenty-fix
Midfummer
to
1780, nine;
to
to
178
eighteen;
1,
to
1782, fourteen.
3, Prifoners 2.
1776, Jan.
Nov.
2,
WITNEY.
One day-room
3.
.4.
0&.
feet
2 inches
by 6
The
ftraw
no water.
20: fees, 4
At my laft
cells 7 feet
rooms
fick,
s.
who have
found a
room
built for
in the
men 16%
8 feet 4,
No
for
their
which he pays 14
window was formerly
women
No
hung up.
high); with
feet
No
not fecure.
at
feet
by 12^,
(9 feet 2 inches by
is
1.
allow-
chimney
no
Keeper's falary,
id. notable.
.vifit I
by 4^ with apertures
the keeper's
prifon
o.
and d\
feet 7,
The
26j
20, Prifoners o.
Ocl:.
1779,
and 6
feet
in
Up flairs
are
two
chimney.
the prifon
14
is
a year.
in the
court-yard of
Prifoners have no
accefiible to paffengers.
who were
all
riot
and confufion
then faw
of them
on fuch
occafions.
At my
facturer,
vifit
in
1779, the prifoners were at work: the keeper now is a manuHe pays them for their work, two pence a pound
To
OXFORDSHIRE/
Oxford Circuit.
To
In the year 1773,
44-
1780,
3 6-
73-
i'78 ii
r
3 s-
31,1776,
67.
at
was there
iS.
in
OXFORD
no
City Bridewell.
Allowance,
OXFORD
26,
Two
garrets
One
in
7.
2.
5:
no court
.fees,
%s. ^d>
University Bridewell.
1782, Dec. 25,
BANBURY Town
one of which
debtors
is
pays rent
Gaol.
a year.
5-^r),
Town
Gaol.
Keeper, town-fergeant
night,
(built
Allowance to felons
prifoners.
No
s.
Claufes againfl:
and
prifoners.
a day.
<\d.
Salary none:
HENLEY
No
This prifon
a week.
is. 6d.
Two
fpirituous liquors
firfl;
Od.
table.
by
Prifoners 6.
is.
BRIDEWELL.
Prifoners 51.
1782,
no water.
In 1779,
*775>
The mod
When
Witney
were committed,
Prifoners 49.
1774.
To Oct.
this prifon
346
for
after.
Prifoners 4.
WORCESTERSHIRE.
WORCESTERSHIRE.
346
Oxford Circit
GAOLER,
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors, o
2.
15
10.
Felons,
Tranfports,
No
afterwards John
Amphlett, now
Widow.
his
,
Widow;
merchants.
Licence,
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons, three-pennyworth of bread a day each (weight Sep.
1783,
lib. 130Z.).
0:2:6.
Garnifh,
Number,
Debtors.
Felons &t.
17..
1779,
18,
19,
8.
1774, July
2,
13,
12.
15,
7.
1775, Dec.
1,
25,
17.
26,
33,
9,
10.
1776, Sep.
10,
Rev. Mr.
Duty,
Friday-
Salary,
zo.
SURGEON,
Caftle-yard
bill'.
fpacions: county
is
Deferf
Taylor..
Mr. Hallward.
none he makes
Salary,
THE
Debtors.
May
15,
CHAPLAIN,
Remarks.
Felons &c.
members
are chofen
in
In the gaoler's-
if.
houfe are eleven good lodging-rooms for mafter's-fide debtors; and two fmall day-
one of which
rooms;
former
that
vifits, as
common-fide debtors:
for
is
a chapel
now
but
there
is
a larger
at
my
The two free wards, or night-rooms for debtors, are at another part"
The way to them is through the women-felons night-room, which has no
The day-room (called the romd-houfe) for men and women-felons is in the
purpofe.
of the yard.
window.
The
feet
by 12*.
Near
it
is
a hand-ventilator (which
Mag'tftrates
may be
feet
fully
is
Over
26
it is
is
fteps
kept
under
an aperture
women
lately fent
from
this
in
WORCESTERSHIRE.
Oxford Circuit.
the court,
in
diameter, with
feet
iron
The
grates.
.347
work
felons
the ventilator
as
come up
for
frefhens
it
Excellent water at a
a year.
pump
No
yard.
in the
Mr. Hallward
infirmary.
the
furgeon caught the gaol-fever fome years ago, and has ever lince been fearful of going
when any felon is fick there, he orders him to be brought out.
into the dungeon
:
The
fmall-pox was
in this gaol
and
at
my
laft
vifit
which had carried off fome of the prifoners, the gaoler, and Dr. Johnjione,
Two rooms were
a phyfician, whofe humanity had led him to attend the prifon -f-.
vailing,
The
of their
many
in too
(as
prifoners
There
now
is
The
is
in their fetters
flrong
this
2:19:0
The
all
lives
window
of
many
a bath as there
is
prifoners.
tax.
is
written on paper,
this
in
at
Londo.i
fix
little
of thefe machines;
brideixtll,
however,
the
am now
fully
and
is
letter
*'
&c.
ftill
all
the
at
This
<viz.
fufrkiently lhews,
how
more of eradicating,
the
liable
With
dungeons
courts,
to fall into negleft, if not conftantly the objecl of care and attention.
floor.
Such
round
faft.
my
At
ftraw.
I doubt
and deep dungeon,
The
prifons
to
even in
for
gaoler pays
This prifon
is
on
clothes
off.
up.
There
illnefs
hung
lay in their
were taken
ill
in the
who
fick,
who were
refpeel to ventilators,
-that
gaol-diftemper,
the
ufe
of
continued.
"
in
**
fevers have
fenior,
from the
of December 1783;
jail
here, carried
its
fait
informs
me
of the following
own family
a place
where
"
fpread to the poor neighbours of the family above-mentioned, and fourteen individuals have already
**
died of it."
Yy
Cbuk'j
Worcci
*
c
Ll
WORCESTERSHIRE.
348
WORCES.
TER
County cf lVo"cejn,er.
made
to a Statute
in the
A Table
of Fees
Oxford Circuit.
to
Castle.
C
-060
-026
-026
-068
-026
S.
To
the turnkey
the turnkey
To
the turnkey
-.
in the
certificate
to the gaoler
To
to the gaoler
Allowed according
D.
13
by us
Soley
TV
Bromley
Fra Meyfey.
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
This prifon joins to the
the prifoners were
profit.
Two
a quarter:
vifit
fix
is
Here
too clofe.
are
courts.
Keeper's falary,
Claufes
againft
20:
my
At
no other allowance.
remarkably clean.
It
caftle.
WORCESTER.
at
is.
fees,
vilits
in
Straw,
ten
(hillings
fpirituous liquors
\d.
prifoner
not
hung up.
my
At
had a three-penny
Jaft
loaf a day,
were a chapel
in the
caftle), thefe
prifoners
might
(as
Dec. 1, Prifoners 3.
j 775,
18.
1776, Sep. 10,
1779,
May
18,
3.
23.
6,
WORCESTER
WORCESTERSHIRE.
Oxford Circuit.
WORCESTER CITY
GAOLER,
Richard George,
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
No
his
GAOL,
Widow.
0:9:2.
0:5:0.
Felons,
Tranfports,
now
COUNTY
and
Licence, Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
three pence a day each.
Felons,
0:2:6.
Garniih,
Number,
1773, Nov.
23,
4,
5.
1779,
18,
6,
4.
Def. 2.
1775, Dec.
1,
5,
o.
4>
2.
3.
10,
4,
o.
7>
5-
1776, Sep.
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
Mr. Halhvard.
none he makes
city
The
bridewell
is
which he
paid window-tax;
made
like
For
On
the
Epiphany
At
the
The
8,
down
eryer
is
fteps,
faid
City purfuant to
-092
050
-026
by us
Gaol.
Edu/
Wellings,
Mayor
Two
Willes
rooms
No
s.
D.
Tho
010
Giles
Timy Edwards*.
Haden
E.
he
hung up.
the
week
Seffions 1771.
KIDDERMINSTER Town
by
by the Gaoler of
and turnkey
Allowed according
court:
vifits
to the gaoler
of every felon
former
of Fees to be taken
The
faid
my
A Table
City of Worcefter.
3.
Only one
fpacious.
One common
a Statute
Imp.
a bill.
alfo the
is
May
none.
Salary,
THIS
W: H:
Ashurst.
court:
no water:
10 feet
no feweiv
keeper, has a (hilling a month for attendance, and a milling for ftraw.
No
prifoners,
STAFFORD-
STAFFORDSHIRE.
35
COUNTY GAOL
Stafford.
GAOLER,
William
now
Scott,
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
15
Tranfports,
Licence,
STAFFORD.
at
Lyttleton Scott.
ly
Felons,
Oxford Circuit.
4.
10.
each.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors,
each per week i$d. bread, and gd. cheefe; and for the
">
Felons,
felons
Czvt.
May-day.
0:2: 6.
0:1:0.
Debtors,
Garnilh,
Felons,
Number,
1779,
15,
40,
14.
ImprefTed 11.
1774, April
1,
44,
17.
38,
20.
Deferter
40,
18.
Duty,
Salary,
augmented from 20
THIS
gaol
is
it;
done
be very proper.
In the latter
Heep
is
in
fum of
Worcefter
Only
one day-room
feet
offenfive,
There
felons court
is
An
to
their
for
as lately
many
dungeon
Were
years.
it
in
would
is
about 2
feet
below the
alfo
is
quite expofed.
confideration,
that
when
of many
It is pity that
The
prifoners.
inches high*.
The
tajik)
a guinea a year,
caftle.
paffage.
is
is
by 12, and 6
very clofe and
feet
number of
fpacious.
under
is
in
30.
{See Remarks.)
to
1.
Salary,
15
Felons &c.
20.
SURGEON,
which
Debtors.
May
39,
CHAPLAIN,
Remarks.
Felons &c.
Debtors.
happened
at
felons
are
alfo
one another;
Derby, Maid/lone,
faid in the
firfl:
it.
note
confined
under Wcrcejier
together at
night
man may
Sec.
the
STAFFORDSHIRE.
Oxford Circuit.
the outllJe of the walls
Jlrazv in the
them.
not within
is
infirmary
it
The
themfehes.
the
preferving
for
adl
it,
It is
The
flairs.
35}
is
Gaol.
and at the
fmall,
down
hung up.
No
not
prifoners
County
whenever
it
of
health
chapel
Stafford
no bath.
Mr. Hughes
8 of
receives
is
the falary of
20
is
He
12
paid
is
A Table
of Fees
fettled at the
is
firfl:
020
-036
-026
by the
-
offupe'r/edeas
-0134
want of a declaration
proce/s
fuperfedtas- or
LODGINGS.
Every prifoner that lies in the matter's
the gaol mail pay per week if a bed
fide
to himfelf
lies
And
if
two prifoners
lie
in the upper
(hall
pay
per
rooms or garret
week
together then
Every prifoner
E
We
Littleton
Hum:
in a
Every prifoner
chamber
all
If two prifoners or more lye together in one bed then between them
016
fhall
own
pay nothing
Wyrly
R. Rider
Fi/h Littleton
Jn". Dolphin.
the Judges of Aflize and gaol delivery of the Oxford Circuit have perufed and do approve of the
above written Table of fees this 2d day of Auguil Anno Dom. 1732.
E Probyn
Comyns
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
STAFFORD. At the North-gate. Three
A room below (called the dungeon) with
No
employment.
fecure.
Keeper's
rooms
for
25.
Fees,
as at the gaol:
3/.
for
women.
Br di1
6d.
no
in
irons;
table.
inches fquare.
Allowance
for
bread
from
WELLS.
STAFFORDSHIRE;
from Michaelmas
She appoints
The
May-day.
to
man, who,
Oxford Circuit,
keeper a woman,
who
is
May
1779,
Prifoners 4,
-
15,
g.
6.
WOLVERHAMPTON.
the
the keeper,
ground-floor;
Keeper's
have
hung
prifon
is
beer:
for
licence
fees,
is.
ftraw,
Claufes
three pence.
againft
fpirituous
up.
offences,
flighteft
^25:
falary,
liquors not
The
in
are
kept
in
and
prifoners,
fo infecure, that
The
irons.
may
county
redrefs
even
this
for
for
the
they
1776,
Sept. 11,
1779,
Aug.
23,
1782,
Nov. 25,
Prifoners
Women.
Men and
Woman.
clofe
cells
64
The
fewer.
Act
for
hung
by
feet
for
prifon dirty,
as
No
water
:
1776, Jan.
Water might be
Stafford,
"
cilterns
is
To
high.
enclofed,
thefe are
in
is
Bean, gentleman,
8,
to
acceffible
no
feet
a court
which
is
is
an offenfive
number of dogs.
preferving the health of prifoners, and claufes againft fpirituous liquors, not
up.
"
"
and
5-^-,
debtors
by feoffment
17S2,
eight
city
feoffees
for ever."
flraw..
to
it
lands
Debtors
-
is
falary,
^2.
in
3.
2.
Felons &c.
r.
...
2.
a houfe adjoining
for
"
HeSIor
fupport and
This
Keeper's
6d. a week.
s.
25,
a fmall expence, as
to
no
Allowance,
2.
1.
gave
prifoners*
table.
conduits,
church in Lichfeld.
WALSALL
Oxford
SHROPSHIRE.
Circuit.
WALSALL
Town
Two
Gaol.
many
In this (and
has a fire-place.
who
refort to the
1782,
rooms under
353
And
till
windows.
Nov.
25,
No
prifoners.
SHROPSHIRE.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
SHREWSBURY.
at
Shrews-
Samuel Wilding.
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
0
o
Felons,
Tranfports,
6:6:0
9:0.
14
each.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, two fix-penny loaves
Felons,
cancelled.
Garnifh,
Number,
Debtors.
16,
15.
11,
24-
Mr.
23,
10.
I782,june23,
19,
19.
Def.
-
Imp.
1.
1.
1.
now Mr.
he makes a
Wheeler.
bill.
and felons
day-room
1 1
18.
24,
Aug.
in
21,
now 10,
Salary,
is
but the
fteps
for
latter
the debtors
in
that court.
down
Cooper,
none
APOTHECARY,
together
Felons Sec.
Debtors.
i77 9 ,Mayi5,
Salary,
THIS
week each.
35.
SURGEON,
for debtors
Felons &c.
18.
Salary,
in
(See Remarks.)
12,
Duty,
their
$\d.
CHAPLAIN,
1 s.
the
that for
in
both debtors
court,
Commodious apartments
For
common-fide.
men was
a few years
For
have no water.
and
felons
are
felons
there
are
courts
and becaufe
commonly
and two
two night-dungeons
a hand-ventilator
,
Separate
this reafon,
which
is
in
the
room over
the
chapel,
Remarks.
SHROPSHIRE.
354
ShrewsB V RY
G aol.
many
The day-room
day-room
for felons
Mod
of the
years.
is
fmall,
15^
is
together.
Oxford Circuit.
Here
by
feet
alfo
being
The
to the
be
5-t: a feparate
tamps
in the
county's expence.
No
no bath:
infirmary:
improvements
the propofed
if
which of
will
When
and
mould have
amount
be fome protection
which
it,
is
feflions.
convicts, one of
my
at quarter feflions
aflize
whom
thofe convicted at
as
in the
fummer
aflize
At
1777.
till
was employed
a year,
The
much
a week.
d.
in
as
laft vifit
more,
The
Of
his death.
in
made
juftices
confiderate and
of
this
humane,
the
of debtors,
as
to prohibit the
demanding from
nth
fair
copies of their
fhould be hung up in the moft public places of the gaol, for the infpection
as well
felons
as
upon.
The
of
fees
claufes
j
were
in the
debtors hall
and thefe
tables,
with the act for preferving the health of prifoners, were hung up in the chapel.
Shropjhlre.
fettled
by the
A Ta ele
Rates
of the
Juftices of the
and
faid
Fees
County
to be taken
The Chamber
To
himfelf per
week
on the
But
if
To
th;
per
for the
County of
Salop,
Rent.
by the Gaoler
election, then
jr.
s.
d.
having a bed to
-010
gaoler for lodging of each perfon in the garrets on the gaoler's bed and furniture
week
That
SHROPSHIRE.
Oxford Circuit.
That no perfon pay any
money whatfoever
rent or
No
Note.
perfon
to
is
lhall
is
s.
D.
Shrews-
for lodging
355
Gaol.
confent, or the confent of two juftices of the peace for the faid county, or negleft of
own
BURV
Count
paying chamber-rent.
Fees for the Gaoler for Debtors.
To
To
To
To
(herifF's
warrant
(if
demanded)
-050
-030
-010
-010
But the debtors to have recourfe to fee the book of commitment (if demanded) gratis.
the gaoler for every debtor if detained upon two or more adtions, fifteen Ihillings, including
the five (hillings
-010
For every
-0150
in cuftody
of court
013
To
To
To
the gaoler for the difcharge of every prifoner found guilty of felony
If at aflizes
the gaoler for the difcharge of every prifoner found guilty of felony
If at feflions
peace
until paid,
But
if
For
the
For every
certificate
(if defired)
-010
-026
The
the gaoler for the difcharge of every perfon charged with felony, or other crime, or as an
who on
his or
her
trial
want of profecution
whom
(hall
no
bill
of indidlment
be acquitted, or
who
(hall
lhall
Cba?.
W.
Baldwyn,
If at aflizes
If at feflions
Y. Davenport,
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
THIS,
women, and
like
work-room.
Two
the floor in
There
is
13
090
TV>. Smith,
Juftices.
G. Nares,
J. Si-cynner,
090
078
-090
the gaoler for the difcharge of every prifoner committed for a certain time, or fined and
committed
To
confumption.
is
ill
to
come down
for
By means of
2 2
flairs
men
is
a door
fhe
men and
them
was languifhing on
women.
The night-room
SHREWSBURY.
at
too fmall:
Judges of Affize.
In one of
from
this
fteps.
gaol
Bride WELL
-
SHROPSHIRE.
3St
Shrews-
gaol
courts,
prifoners
thefe
have
(which few
privilege
bury
Bridewell.
s.
bridewells
in
Keeper's
falary,
Allowance, to each
6 d.
Oxford Circuit.
4^
1 s.
week
d.
of
Fees
at
of a vagrant,
in bread,
no employment
Little or
aflize.
s.
enjoy)
50.
keeper
has,
May
1779,
5.
1776, Sep.
11.
Aug. 24,
1782, June 23,
12,
On
the caftle-gate.
He
the front
is
is
Fees, debtors 5
s.
8.
16.
eat.
A fmall
this
him not
BRIDEWELL.
and
" In
infcribed,
15, Prifoners 6.
It
court: no fewer: no
no employment.
6 d. criminals 3
Allowance
6 d. no table.
s.
Gaoler's falary, $.
1779,
1782,
LUDLOW
was
airy, for
fergeant at
Prifoners
24,
Debtor
For
front, in 1764.
Two
with chimneys.
1774,
July
1,
May
16,
Town
but
prifon,
felons
No
1779,
court
no
water.
Prifoners o.
-
o.
Deferter 1.
One room
Bridxwell.
No
feet
1.
12.
called Gaolford's
5 feet fquare,
o.
Petty Offenders
June 23,
by infeription on the
debtors.
LUDLOW
(14
15,
Aug.
Town Gaol,
rebuilt, as appears
May
fire-place
at
1779,
July 27,
1782,
Sep. 27,
the
Prifoners 2.
-
o.
no window
10 inches fquare.
1782,
*
This
is
Sep. 27,
No
The
prifoners.
and the windows of the bridewell opening into the courts of the gaol, if the whole were converted
houfeof correiliou, every convenience might be
made
of
fine
known
building
it.
/2000 on
for labour
am
and
folitary confinement.
at
firft
have
into
am
purpofe of re-
HEREFORD.
HEREFORDSHIRE.
Oxford Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
Thomas
at
357
HEREFORD.
Ireland.
Hereford*
none.
Salary,
Fees,
Debtors, ^
:
Felons,
Tranfports,
Licence,
Beer.
10
14
o each*
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
(See Remarks.)
Felons,
0 -.2:6.
Garnifh,
Number,
Debtors.
Felons
29.
Aug.
9,
11,
13.
1775, Dec.
2,
17,
4.
CHAPLAIN,
Debtors.
&c.
14,
1776, Sep.
Felons
&x,
3.
9,
8,
19,
9.
23,
6,
Impreffed
6.
Duty,
Salary,
40.
Twenty of
it is
a legacy of
in this county.
SURGEON,
Salary,
APARTMENTS,
A day-room
ward.
19 feet by
15-I,
for felons
no flraw or bedding.
The
Here,
as in
Ireland,
had
No
it is
now
infirmary
common
my former
debtor
who
fhilling
Thomas White.
Claufes
who
is
no bath
alehoufe.
vifits,
Mr,
he never
day one
their court
and
free
is
No
a year to
poor prifoners
and on
St.
Thomas's
The
hung up.
A H
Remarks,
HEREFORDSHIRE.
TABLE OF FEES.
358
Hereford
Scffions
held
County
Martyr
(to wit)
Gaol.
Edward
of Debtors &c.
.
It
at Hereford
the
in the
week
firft
Sums
George
is
of
Oxford Circuit.
II
to
may be
taken.
(That
To
acYion or procefs
is
to fay)
To
the turnkey
Every prifoner
own lodgings
their own lodgings each
in
is
is
Stratford
Edw d
Hopton
H Thctnas
at
Indeed
fewers
no court
He
ment.
told
me
no water
Six prifoners,
They were
fami fried.
no
ftated allowance
whom
CoMYNS
fent hither
at
from the
it
that
6
0
TheK
is
No
it
abutted.
In
fire-place: offenfive
Keeper's falary,
after three
weeks confine-
They broke
cannot be convenient.
both fexes,
11
feet
8
aflize a
after.
firft vifit,
out foon
my
HEREFORD,
faw there
no employment.
Rg r Hereford.
0
0
H Aubrey
Goodere
the day-room there was a large quantity of water from the roof.
10.
in a fingle
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
the caftle-green,
J.
On
of fuperfedeas
P..c.
Ro.
Ro Price
0
6
D.
6
0
0
in cuftody
want of a declaration
certificate for
s.
For the receiving and entering every declaration delivered againft the prifoners
For a
0
0
of every prifoner
To
&
Bridewell.
Thomas the
Stratford Efq.
in.
as
there
is
no court,
the
HEREFORDSHIRE.
Oxford Circuit.
make
the fewers
men had
the
The women
county gaol.
9,
1775, Dec.
3,
1776, Sep.
9,
them, 2
liquors not
d. a
Prifoners 6.
City Gaol,
hung up.
o.
1.
in the
May
779>
The
is
The
lower
room
widow
Debtors
9,
falary,
3.
none
Keeper
1776, Sep.
court.
little
The
day.
in irons.
1774, Aug.
HEREFORD
if
to
It
erected the bridewell in one of the two very fpacious gardens joining to the
modious
359
allowance
fees, 6
8d. no table.
s.
Felons o.
4.
o.
o.
o.
Deferter
1.
MONMOUTHSHIRE.
COUNTY GAOL at MONMOUTH.
GAOLER,
Salary,
Fees,
^20
none.
Debtors,
Tranfports,
Licence,
Beer.
J^
Felons,
now James
Baker.
I0 '
each.
PRISONERS,
Allowance,
Debtors, none.
Felons,
Debtors.
i774> Feb.
Felons &c.
1782, 7
Debtors.
10,
12.
1776, Sep.
5,
6,
6>
Aug.
10,
16.
1775. Dec.
4>
5a
8.
Salary,
now twelve-pennyoz.
6.
Number,
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
10,
Felons &c.
9.
I2
1.
none.
Mr. Powell.
10
10
o,
augmented
to
12
12
o.
MONMOUTH.
Hereford
Bride-
MONMOUTHSHIRE.
360
M O N M O
Remarks.
ONLY
room
one court
day-room and
a finall
bed-rooms
fix
up and down
and healthy.
Felons night-
for debtors.
is
irons
in
when water
is
to be carried
is
feldom clean
fo, if it be crowded.
At my fir ft vifit in 1774, they
of which J. Daverel and feveral of his prifoners, and fome of their
bath
no infirmary there is room to build one at the bottom of the
This cannot be
gaol-fever,
friends died.
H.
top of the houfe, 22 feet by 15, with only one window about 3 feet fquare.
at the
had the
U T
Oxford Circuit.
No
court, where the county has been at the unneceffary expence of building a
all
ft
If
able.
be feparated.
duke of
Beaufort.
At my
mer
vifit in
affize in
1775.
Mr. James
Act
who
March
died
26,
Mr.
of
Deetors Fees
as fettled
by the
According
to the Direction of
is firft
execution
in cuftody
and writ
LODGINGS.
Evry prifoner
Every prifoner
that
lies in
the fheriff's
ward
Th\ Morgan
Juftices
who
S.
D.
13
026
-016
Cafel Hanbury
Charles
>
in his
.
o
-020
068
-026
-026
-
Sec.
For entering and difcharging every fecond and other action upon
For
left
hung up.
A Table
For the
fum-
at the
up.
legacy
hung
Van JunK
Ja*. Tuder
Morgan
John Cbambre
J. Lewis
E. Bradbury.
the
Hon bIe
Sir
Thomas Dennison Kn
f
.
AND THE
COUNTY
MONMOUTHSHIRE.
Oxford Circuit.
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
On
and another
7.1),
The
There
are two
the ground-floor
women.
for
who was
me
much
is
USK.
a lodging-room for
rooms
at top
men
of the houfe,
at
361
leflened, if proper
rooms were
built in
prifon.
The
now
pump.
hung
work.
up.
Salary,
^21
This prifon
is
now kept
2.
1779, June
1776, Sep.
3.
MONMOUTH TOWN
A
court
The
keeper has
claufes againft
8, Prifoners 7.
-
Deferter
2.
no
1.
GAOL.
55. 6 d.
the
clean.
fecure.
lary .4.
all
fpirituous liquors
good room on the firft floor for debtors over it one for felons, not
no fewer
no water. Allowance to felons, two pence a day.
:
this
profit of the
not
are
a court with a
is
hung
No
Gaoler's fa-
up.
Fees,
table.
1779, June
2,
Prifoners o.
Debtor
1.
Petty offender
1.
NEWPORT
Town Gaol. Two rooms; one below, the other over the gateway; out of repair; no court; no fewer; no water.
1782, Oft. 24,
No
prifoners.
GLOCESTERSHIRE.
GLOCESTERSHIRE.
Oxford Circuits
GAOLER,
now
William Williams,
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
Robert Giles*
.
.
Felons at Affize
Quarter Seffions
at
10.
0:17:
0:13:
4.
8.
Tranfports, ,6 each.
Licence,
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons, each a fix-penny loaf in
weigi ht Sep.
Garnifh,
.0
783, 3 lb.
Debtors.
Felons &c.
Debtors.
20,
48.
1775, Dec.
5,
13,
24.
1,
1779, June
1782, April 27,
Dec. 23,
1776, Sep.
5,
8,
35-
10,
41.
A "g-
1774,
CHAPLAIN,
Sunday.
Salary,
4'
SURGEON S,
caftle
is
they
make
The
free
2 4.
38.
3>
46.
bill.
(11
feet
for fines,
&c.
Thefe have
repair,
inches
by
ruinous, that
it
ward
is
for men-felons,
rooms
24,
a*
alfo
women-felons.
24.
none
Salary,
kc
Felons
16,
Duty,
THE
6.
Number,
prifoners
two days
fteps,
is
clofe
but
at
and
alfo
my
I
r,
feet
7,)
for
all
men and
The
and dark
and the
floor
is
fo
Adjoining to the Main, there are other nighttheir feparate day- room.
10
laft vifit
for
many
years.
is
eight died
no affize of bread.
about
GLOCESTERSHIRE.
Oxford Circuit.
Only one
the gaol-fever.
ail:
No
fewer.
bath*.
li-
hung up.
There
to
is
neceffarily be defeated,
good
Perhaps
this
Of the
is
at
Lent
inat-
regulations.
felons &c. in
of them convicted
deed
by the
But
in
September very
in
December
their
appearance was
much
Mr. Raikesf and other gentlemen took pity on them, and generoufly contriMr. Raikes continues his unremitting atbuted toward the feeding and clothing them.
altered.
Eleven
of.
employment
or allowance.
The
gaoler has
^10
an officer
is
commanded "
"
Weftminfter
ee
At
laid
my
with flone
When
of air.
The windows
in the
The
by exchequer
writs; in
by fuch
at
trefpaffes,
writs.
which
prifoners detained
boxes or bedfteads
wafhed.
drinking
many
Dec. 1782,
vifit in
arretted
to anfwer
to bring the
and
fines
in the cattle
the floors
prifons are repaired, particular care fhould be taken for the admiffion
tap-room here,
in
as in too
many
other gaols.
"*
irons to
go
in.
would induce
This would frefhen and revive them, and might be the means of preventing the gaol-
fever.
f This gentleman
this city.
is alfo
day; which, by
his attention
many
and
of
liberal
little
whom now
vifits to
and
effect in
of the poor in
their
Sundays
in
him
means of preventing
Glocssi b*
Ca "' u
'
GLOCESTERSHIRE.
64
Glocester
Castle,
A Table
hall
of
July
15
19th
1729.
for the
Oxford Circuit.
County of
Gloticefter
Booth-
at the
month according
fame
an Aft
to
entituled &c.
To
wit
'.
'im^ii
for entering the adtion whereon each prifoner is
&ft
Imprimis,
of excom ad capiendum
For entering and difcharging every fecond and other action upon
execution
For the
certificate
-020
068
-034
-026
-026
-0134
in cuftody
upon each
adlion or writ
in
0180
*>
s-
firft
cuftody
LODGINGS.
Every prifoner who
lies in
by the week
lies in
The Names
ward
the ftierifPs
who
of the Juftices
in his
own
-026
016
week
laft Seflions.
J Temple
Ed Field
Tho* Cooke
K Delabere
J Stephens
Nathi Lye
Fr
Mayn't Colchejler
Tho 5 Hayvjard
Reg Winniat
TVilfr.
The Names
laft
Hodges
Hyatt
Tho
Willis
Syke.
the
at
Aflize
Tho Cooke
I
ftieriff's
Ed
Stephens
Field
Tho*
Hayward.
have reviewed and examined the above Table of Fees and do confirm the fame
Rob. Price.
other
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
Bride-
LAWFORD's GATE,
the
Bristol,
built
7 1 6,
There
in thofe above are beds for thofe who pay.
by 16
dungeon (11 feet 10 inches by 7 feet 2), in which felons ileep.
18 feet
It
It
is
table.
day
gifler
me
in that opinion.
no employment.
kept in the prifon,
chimneys.
No
room,
a dark
is
allowance,
accefs to the
Salary,
if
mould
^10
fees,
6s.
hung
up.
no
Zd,
The
pump.
By
<id.
a re-
it
it
572
prifoners.
>774i.
GLOCESTERSHIRE.
Oxford Circuit.
BERKELEY..
4
inches by
not glazed
on
no ftraw
idlenels,
in
He
penny
a bufhel
which
his prifoners,
Account
of
6.
the
working
falary,
^20
fees, 4s.
victualler
done no work
his
prifoners.
fome weeks
for
out
effects
after
late
laid
whofe malt
it
me
lifts
He
4d. no table.
No
at all.
wrote
here tranfcribe.
Prisoners
Sent to the
In
fenfible old
of
allowance.
1782, Mar. 2,
quite incapable of
juftices
but that of
5.
that
and the
The
known
me,
told
9 inches high
no chimney
i,
repair.
7 feet
their difcharge.
for a
and
Sep.
6.
twenty years.
of clofe confinement
Many
Quite out of
5 feet 4,
B * f ?!"
WELLS.
2.
-3.
1776,
3 65
in the
Bridewell
at
Bsrkeley,.
House of Commons*..
correction,
Prifoners
21.
1772, Ditto,
1773,
1774,
1
Midfummer
to
775,
feffions,
ditto
20.
19.
15.
ditto.
4.
Francis Norman.
farther
Account
1778
correilion.
Men.
Women.
6.
4-
committed
J
779> Ditto,
1780,
178c,
1782,
to
Michaelmas
3,
1775, Dec.
o.
Many
6,
feffions,
ditto
if,
ditto.
7>
2;
2.
I.
~
2.
&
'
O.
4-
o.
i.
Commons
(in
confequence of their
F. Kcrman.
CIRENCESTER,
GLOCESTERSHIRE.
66
CIRENCESTER.
his kitchen,
corner of
On
The
On
&c.
it is
ground-floor
the
firft
ftory
is
room
a larger
is
No
enough
employment.
the town.
hung
-Fees,
Keeper's falary, 1
6s.
8 d.
no
and
men: one
feet 3 inches.
Felons are
it.
No
for
by 5
8 feet
6 feet by
The whole
women.
for
in
room about
ftraw.
is
Oxford Circuit.
now
bedding or
table.
up.
1779, June 9,
1782, Oct.25,
WINCHCOMB.
In
Now
the cellar.
clofe-glazed
rooms
6.
3.
window
in
each
8 feet
one,
women
in
all
together in
another
in the
each
middle.
Fees,
put irons on
13J. ^d.
hung up.
No
no
Allowance,
ftraw.
May
No
19,
Claufes againft
" he
fliould
be obliged to
IN
Felon, and 2
Petty Offender.
THIS COUNTY
IS
BRIEVELL's GAOL,
in the foreft of
Women.
Prifoners.
One
is
if
The keeper
St.
table.
all
1779,
cattle
1.
many years and the whole is quite out of repair. It was the freehold of
who was upwards of fourfcore his falary per receipts ^12 10 o, re-
The
in
no chimney.
The
the keeper,
*'
men
Deferter
this
houfe for
ALSO
for
debtors.
ranger.
who
is
the chief
a twelvemonth, and never once out of the difmal and offenfive room; the other almoft
as long.
fees,
none
there.
Keeper no
2s.6d. notable.
o.
GLOCESTER
GLOCESTERSHIRL
Oxford Circuit*
GLOCESTER CITY
GAOLER,
COUNTY
and
(he paid
Salary,
none
Fees,
Debtors,
0
o
Felons,
9
ia
*4
:
GAOL.
G
Widow.
0 a Y ear t0 the
67
toeriffs.
s*
8.
Licence,
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, three millings a week.
Garnifti,
0:3:4.
Number,
3,
4.
1775, Dec.
5,
7,
7.
1779, June
1782, Apr.
1776, Sep.
6,
2,
2.
1783, Sep.
Dec. 15,
THIS
No
none
27kl^rifonersin coanty.
.
30, J
all
is
but
women
common,
three (hillings a
week
On
by the corporation.
the
The
No
memorial of
it
in the
gaol.
The
gaol,
The
hung up.
it
"
in
ftate
act
of this prifon in
1779
but
as
it
my
at
in
vifit
in
April 1782,
anew
and
In September
built
Remarks.
feparated at night.
this
too fmall.
13th
g^ L
The
1.
1,
6.
2,
1,
none.
court
Felons ice.
Debtors.
Felons &c.
Debtors.
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
who
(See Remarks.)
Felons,
on too fmall
783 the new gaol was nearly finifhed, but not occupied.
a fcale, the walls
This
is
will be offenfive.
'GLOCESTERSHIRE.
3 6S
Gloucejlir City.
a Table
Gloucester
Oxford Circuit.
of
Chamber Rent
Gaol.
CHAMBER
to the North-gate
Gaol &c.
RENTS.
The bell room for each man three millings per week.
The three bed rooms for each man two millings and four pence per week.
The chamber called Daw''s-nejl three millings per week.
The little chamber called Catt-bole two millings and four pence per week.
The little room on the firft floor two lhillings and four pence per week.
FEES.
Sheriff's
of writs
warrants
out
-1
Civit Glouc fs
Ad Gentralem
Pleas,
gaoler
Shiartialem Sejponem
tiff.
8/.
-..
Common
Mar:
4/0 Georgii
s.
D.
-098
-098
-084
048
-026
\d.
12
IO
II 1750
or
Chamber
rent to be taken
till
of the reign of
we
fettled
now
faid
Table of Fees
in
fome Articles do
fettled.
Signed by us
Tbo
Payne
Carill.
HAMPSHIRE
HAMPSHIRE.
Western Circuit.
HAMPSHIRE,
or the county of
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
at
3^9
OUTHAMPTON,
WINCHESTER.
John White.
Winchester.
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors, i
Felons,
Tranfports,
waggon
or other carnage.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons,
(See Remarks.)
lib.
and the
i^oz.)
lib.
college allowance.
(See Remarks.)
0:2:6.
Garnifh,
Number,
Felons &c.
Debtors.
21,
18.
13,
21.
15,
29.
"77^ Feb.
15,
23.
CHAPLAIN,
27,
Rev. Mr.
779, Mar. i,
1782, Feb. 25,
1
Nov.
2,
26.
12,
3528.
33>
JVejicomb.
Duty,
Salary,
SURGEON,
Salary,
augmented from 30
to
50.
Mr. Lip/comb.
augmented from ^30
to
^50
for felons,
bridewell prifoners.
THIS
prefent
gaol
is
dungeon, 48
feet
by 23,
is
down but
5 fteps:
in
it is
it
are
improvements.
The
and
has 3 large windows. The former deftru&ive dungeon was darker, and down 1 1 fteps
Mr. Lip/comb informed me that more than 20 prifoners had died in it of the gaol-fever
and that his predecelTor died of the fame diftemper. There are two
in one year
rooms over the dungeon, for common-fide debtors ; three rooms with beds for felons
who pay, and two rooms for women. The felons day-room is commodioufly en;
larged.
weather
towel
Their ftraw mattreffes and coverlets are brought out and aired when the
is
fine.
hung on
The
a roller:
beds are
all
on crib bedfteads.
the prifoner
who took
3 B
care of
and delivered
it
a clean
next day
was
Remarks*
HAMPSHIRE.
Winches-
County
Gaol.
paid a penny.
vvas
If a
little
court, which
now
is
Western
up from
{hut
ufelefs,
it
The
Crofs's
St.
hofpital bread
year;
The
is
(the dole)
is
viz.
once
week
The
bills,
now
and,
fame number of
to
Ad Generalem
Fee
Quarteriakm
but, there
SeJJionsm
purfuant
fettled
and
a day,
prifoners..
of
ATable
in
amount
Southton.yJ
The juftices
The
fait,
table beer,
baker.
loth Auguft,
times a
to
chapel
ft
Circuit.
no bath.
is
apud Winton
to an
Ad the
1. Jan*' 5'
Georgii
II 173 1
coram
c.
entitled
At
common
To him
neceflaries
may
Of every
bed on
weekly
to the gaoler
D.
-0 20
-154
-020
-030
-02a
040
026
-100
-020
-010
o
12
10
debtor for each week's lodging in the gaoler's bed on the mailer's fide
At
S.
other
To
all
action
the difcharge of every perfon committed for felony and whofe bills
be brought in
fliall
ignoramus and at the difcharge of every perfon committed for not finding bail or for
ether mifdemeanors under the degree of felony no
And
it
is
fees
ordered
&c
And
that the
for the
more than
felon
direftly
or
that the
indirectly any
0134
-010
-010
other or
under-wrkten claufe
greater
in the
up in
faid
each and
And
HAMPSHIRE,
Western Circuit.
And be
it
any
further enafted
'*
"
and
have
alfo to
3/i
fhall
permit
him
or
her
Winchester.
beer ale and victuals or other neceflary food from what place they pleafe
-as
he
ftie
fit
&c
*."
Copy
Ed
Ed Hooker
Rob Pyke
TboK Durnford
ThoK Bates
R.
Benj Woodroofe
Ric
John
Stawell
Foyle
New
C. Chaloner Cobb
John
Alivick.
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
WINCHESTER.
paved, 37
The
commonly numerous
by
5 inches,
feet
feet 10)
13
quarter feffions,
efpecially at
when they
There
by 10
3 inches
room 15!
feet
by
women, and
in
were
to vaft
At my
five,
king's evidence.
The
no
two days
and
years he fent
for feveral
A pump
liquors
779, Mar.
One day-room;
The court airy.
women.
for their
oum
No
21.
fees,
ft raw.
other gaolers,
conduct,
i, Prifoners 11.
fheriff's
have exprefTed to
debtors,
me
officer
23.
but no fuel
falary,
40
fees,
Allowance, two-pennyworth of
orders, the debtors in their irregularities often fet at defiance the keepers,
in-
Keeper a
An
Claufes
no
40
Keeper's falary,
6s. Bd.
lately funk.
no employment.
GOSPORT.
for
table.
in-
d.
17 feet
ys. B
feet
is
vifit in
numbers.
by 20
11 feet 2 inches.
17S2
feet
s.
are
feet 3.
is
not
is
who
is
who
fome
fince for
precife ord- rs
want of fuch
treating them.
bread
Bride-
HAMPSHIRE.
37*
Bride.
WEILS.
act againft: fpirituous liquors
1782,
hung
ODIAM.
Some
women
feet
3 inches
feet
(11
No
made
Keeper was a
employment.
by
11 feet 3).
Deferters 2.
to
fherifF's
for
lodging-room
for a brew-houfe,
2
s.
week.
d.
falary,
15:
licence.
Claufes of
is
table.
&c.
benefit of prifoners.
no
2.
5.
high).
dairy,
no employment.
up.
men
for
exaftly lib.):
Western Circuit.
6 s. 8d.
fees,
no ftraw
An
no
offenfive
1776, Feb.
5.
17.82, Nov..
4.
ftraw
is
^3.
no water
acceffible
19
15
1782, Nov.
near
are
the
two keepers
one for
nor claufes
5,
o.
o.
Petty Offenders
2.
are removed from the old work-houfe to an Houfe of Indujlry built in the
of Parkhurfl,
At my
in
chimney: no
hung up.
The Poor
There
prifoners.
to
is
No
foreft
BRIDEWELL,
GAOL.
Wight
NEWPORT
no court
1,
in the IJle of
and
old work-houfe
8.
N EWPORT
The
28, Prifoners
March
vifit
ftatute
21,
meafure, was
for
1772,
and
thofe
or
whole ifland^
099
a.
HAMPSHIRE.
Western Circuit.
in the ceilings
clean,
The
principal
The ceconomy
is
a fault
(which
the milling,
common
is
all
mould be ufed
to
for
Debtors,
Out of
high.
hung
j.
up.
the girls
is
in
too low.
rooms, one 17
of fuch
houfes-,
is
near 9,
the
and-
is
feet
one gallon
prifoners) with
lod. no table.
ftaircafes
air.
There
repair.
The bounty
are admitted.
Two
64
WINCHESTER
At
A Prison
feet
a fet
Here
ward (28
fick
The
fhoe-makers employed.
373
loaf,
ec 28, Prifoners
775>
1779, Mar. 1,
1782, Feb. 25,
l
In
this
County
6.
are
alfo
ward
Sheriff's
o."
1.
SOUTHAMPT ON f
at
Two
for Debtors.
rooms:
in that for
women,
In 1779, there were ibme alterations in thefe rooms, but the fewer
when
By
that
down fome of
t
laft
to plead ignorance
of
it
thefe houfes,
"
thereof." I
which
&c.
town, where there are fome good rules and orders; I copy the
That thefe orders be publicly read once a week, that no one may pretend,
this
fhall
think of importance.
It
is
well
cannot
fail
full
of contrivances
to excufe tbemlelves
The want
who
would recommend a
of
this,
am
affociate with
them.
On
this
perfuaded,
is
the
reafon
why
fo
account,
above feven
houfes.
was
Newport..
HAMPSHIRE.
was
There
offenfive.
now .10:
falary,
ration allows
The
4df.
no court
is
fees,
18 feet 9 inches by
8f
2.
Tkew^
court
no water.
\d. no
s.
flairs
o.
2.
no
No
table of fees
faid
o.
no court
fees,
ten
1.
1.
flairs
it
for
where
women
once
are very
Gaoler
is
fergeant at mace:
felons four
hung up
He
in this gaol:
borough, which
" informed
1.
falary,
for felons,
pence a day.
no chimney
and up
room
GAOL.
ftreet,
a large
is
falary
Felon
towards the
is
In the court
prifoners,
rooms,
now^ic.
bedding.
PORTSMOUTH TOWN
black,
clofe
allowance,
The ward
3,
Prifoners
table.
2.
Gaoler's falary,
1779, Mar.
Three rooms up
no employment.
up.
3.
Two
at
very dirty.
Bridewell,
hung
corpo-
Prifoners allowance,
no water
mace
at
The
1774,
Circuit.
table.
Gaol
no water.
no
135. 4*/.
Western
known
have
it
"
is
to be paid
at
mace of the
Debtors.
Felon &c.
2,
4.
2,
1.
BASINGSTOKE
10 d. out of which the town- clerk hath 3/. 6d. &c. &c. &c.
Prison,
for
a year.
Debtors.
Debtors,
He
is
6,
1.
1782, Nov. 5,
6,
4.
is
one room
in
1782, Nov.
'
Felons ice.
779? Mar. 6,
1,
No
prifoners.
WILTSHIRE.
Western
WILTSHIRE.
Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
375
SALISBURY*.
at
Thomas Biggs.
*vVx.
none.
Salary,
as
(See Remarks.)
below.
Tranfports,
1:1:0.
0:7:8.
Felons,
4:4:0 each.
Licence,
Debtors,
Fees,
PRISONERS,
(See Remarks.)
penny
2d. a day
loaf a
i.e.
(See Remarks.)
Debtors Mafter's-fuie,
Garnifh,
Number,
8.
1776, Sep.
3,
7,
12.
12,
9.
1779, Mar.
1,
17,
15.
2i,
15.
20,
16.
Friday prayers
40; of which 20
SURGEON,
Mr.
jio
Salary,
Crompton,
10
a legacy.
is
now Mr.
for felons
it
ftands)
No
(no fuel
Remarks.)
is
day-room
is
alfo
name of
for
Women-felons have a
Biggs has
.6:13:4
feparate
falary
and
:.
in
The common-fide
room, about 15
the parifli
Mr.
(See
Cwtoys.
prifon in this city called Fifier ton- Anger Gaol (from the
one court.
fire
Felons &c.
Felons Sec.
14,
Salary,
which
Debtors.
Debtors.
Duty,
THE
0:8:8,
0:4:4.
CHAPLAIN,
in
in Sep.
in Feb.
75. 8d.
for
each
fort
Only
have their
debtors
room over
feet fquare.
and
^10
He
When
through
lefs
than
city in
this
50
of
at liberty,
Iri
Remarks
WILTSHIRE.
Salisbury
G aol.
In 1
houfe
new building
in the court
room
Western Circuit.
a ftable,
men, another
for
for
women.
could
not help wifhing that the lower part inftead of ftable &c. had been two day-rooms
at
is
who
faw there
which
through
was
it
offering to th'ofe
whom
is
put a chain,
That
with fire-places,
laft
&c. made
were crown
in the prifon.
debtors
The two
Now, this
not permitted.
At Chriftmas,
felons chained
one of them
Twenty pounds
is
by him
diftributed
of
among
the
No
The
Die
Fees now
A& intituled
Ad
an
and
alfo for
and writ
the gaol.
Chamber-rent &c.
FELONS.
For every commitment and difcharge by a juflice of peace or in court
For every commitment for not finding bail for good behaviour
For every commitment and difcharge of baftardy
To
in
latitat
aftion
the intereft of
Julii,
left
hung up.
according to an
Cliff in this
the remainder to be
to
of
prifoners.
^50
A Table
manor of Swallow
part to the
ftatute
of pramunire
-100
-0100
-010
-154
S.
D.
10
13
13
4
4
0134
-154
-010
-
LODGINGS.
Every prifoner that
the
We
week
-026
by
whofe Names are here under written at the General Quarter Seffions held at Warminfter
hereby
allow
the
do
fame
H Coker
J Montague
Jn. Cooper
Jn". Eyks
Tbo*. Pbipps
Edwd
Edwd
AJhe
Toutige
OTHER
WILTSHIRE*
Western Circuit.
377
OTHER
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
DEVIZES.
Bride-
women: but the day-room (19^ feet by 18) and court-yard, common. A fmall
work-mop I faw no body in it. An infirmary of two rooms. Four rooms for
WELLi>
This
town
alfo the
is
two night-ro&ns
It has
gaol.
for
for
inafter's-fide debtors.
Allowance
March 178
18 oz. in
my
at
to offenders, three-halfpennyworth
late vifits.
2,
employment
the prifoners
There was
s.
at 7
s.
s.
There was
miles diftance.
2d. and 10
6 d. for bringing
alfo a
woman
6 d. for conveyance.
s.
many
but
as
in
the
falary
fome of which
and the
men
to prifon,
for a debt of
*.
fome of the other rooms mentioned above have been built fince
is now little danger of that diflemper
provided care be taken to
the keeper,
demanded of
fees are
for each.
2d.
now made
are wirhout
In 1782, a weaver
8 d.
is
prifoners
No
nailed up.
s.
1776,
a debtor in
fmall children.
of 10
work-room
window
The
the
in
in Sep.
all
crowded into
one
night-room.
feparate prifoners
found occupied by
The
keeper has a
hung up.
Debtors. Petty Offenders.
1774, Aug. 4,
3,
17.
1,
14.
1776, Sep.
1,
13.
1782, Mar. 4,
5,
25.
4,
MARLBOROUGH. A
feet
by
Lunatics 3.
-
1.
lodging-room
women 23 feet 2 inches by 9 feet 8 another for men this is 13^ feet by io^
window 1 9 inches by 1 5, not to the open air, but to the work-room, which has
for
which, when
By an
aft for
made very
was there
firft,
<;
are
on the ground-floor
and
by a fewer
men's night-room
in
Geo.
HI. cap.
Tftfc
WILTSHIRE.
The keeper
court
none
me
told
Up
difcharge.
that jufl before one had died there, and another foon after his
flairs
rooms
are three
felons, three-halfpennyworth
falary lately
no
s.
d.
a week.
fees,
8 d.
s.
at
pifit
of fmali beer.
(The
^1 16:4} petty
1, felons,
10
No
ftraw.
Keeper's
raifed
who pay
for thofe
Western Circuit.
10
The
were
in
fees
o.
evident concern, " he had been there thirty weeks and had not earned one half-
them
On
In 1782, no employment.
penny."
work; they
faid, their
outfide
1774, Aug.
Two
of
, Prifoners 6.
There
they defired to
this prifon.
1775, Dec.30,
1776, Dec. 17,
it.
if
is
8.
17.
alfo at
1779, Feb.
27, Prifoners 4.
1782, March 4,
SALISBURY
11.
Deferter
1.
the
City Gaol the property of the bifhop: out of repair. Two rooms for felons, and
them for debtors. No court no water no ftraw. The late gaoler paid
:
three above
thirty fhillings
officer.
&c.
at 2
j.
At my
fees,
\\s. 8
laft vifit,
fhillings
d.
no
the lower
worth of bread.
table.
Keeper, a fherifFs
rooms were
let to
a week.
3,
1776, Sep.
Felons &c.
2.
3,
2,
o.
1,
1.
i,
q.
Deferters
2.
I*.
DORSETSHIRE
DORSETSHIRE,
Western Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
James
DORCHESTER.
at
Dorches-
Chaffey.
ter.
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
Felons
at Afiize,
12:6
Tranfports,
Licence,
9.
3:8.
0:17:4,
Quarter Seflions,
:
379
each.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none; but on applying tojuftices.
three-halfpennyworth of bread a day (weight in Sep. 1774,
Felons,
1
2^ oz.J
Debtors,
Garnifh,
Felons,
Number,
Debtors.
Felons ice.
21,
9.
*779> Eeb. 6,
14,
6.
19,
9.
1782, Aug. 3,
17,
8.
14,
7-
Friday
Salary,
raifed
SURGEON,
is
;
altered to
from 30
to
Mr. Kenn.
and
felons.
The
30
Salary,
rooms
Duty,
THIS
Remarks.)
Felons &c.
CHAPLAIN,
There
'ee
Debtors.
gaol
is
for debtors
court
is
in front, in
which
alfo
on the ground-floor
is
is
the
is
the chapel.
condemned
On
room
for
women
ten
rooms
me
they had lived five or fix weeks on nothing but the county-bread, and water.
(8 feet by 6) with a
window
December 1775,
$>
this
In
garden and a
By
firft
no memorial of
the
hung
among
up.
Mr.
John Derby
left
twenty
hung up.
the exertions of
Mr.
Pitt,
this county, a
new gaol
is
going
fine ftream.
Edward
Remarks*
DORSETSHIRE.
DorchesTER
Gaol/
Edward Morton
beef.
Lord Digby
and himfelf.
father
Western Circuit.
his
Mr.
orders figned by
A Table
Dor/et.
fettled
the
requires garnilTi of a
laft article
at
of Fees
by
to be taken
34th
II
1760
new comer.
vifit.
the Gaoler or
George
of
my firft
The
him
purfuant to an Aft
at Dorchejler
intituled an
Aft for
.
Imprimis for the commitment fee of every prifoner for debt
in civil fuits
though
it
be on feveral actions
committed who
fo
S.
D.
who
to himfelf
and
finds himfelf
have a bed
-0
pay
fhall
at his
for fuch
week
But
ufe
if the
For the
of the
in
common room
--
The above
fees
o
o
...
liberate
of them to pay weekly and every week for the ufe of fuch bed bedding
more
ufe
Ric Brodrepp
Riggs
Jn" Jennings
Okeden
John Freke.
Dorchepr
in
o
o
by Us
faid
County of Dor/et
Hanham
the 24th
E WlLMOT
W Noel.
Examined with the Original by John Walln Clerk of
of the County of Dor/et.
the Peace
COUNTY
DORSETSHIRE.
Western Circuit.
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
Four rooms, two
large garden:
in
No
lib. 3 oz.J
of
^40:
The keeper
The
juftices
31
1780,
fhall
it is
who
appointed.
is
and 45
faid
in
178
The
1.
of prifoners going
relief
is
to-
as follows.
great inhumanity that frequently happens unto the feveral prifoners conveyed ta
Sberborn, Dorfet.
in
formerly told
of the peace,
now
in Sep.
Keeper has
fees,
employment.
SHERBORNE.
at
falary,
381
by
and order of
the refolution
this
being
provide for one prifoner only a horfe, for two or more a convenient cart or carriage for the conveying
them: and
to be allowed the
fix
pence
a mile &c.
1774,
Sep. 22,
1779,
Feb.
6,
2.
1782,
Aug.
2,
13.
Prifoners 9.
DORCHESTER TOWN
Two
rooms
GAOL.
No
Allowance \\d.
room upwards of
The
in bread.
fourteen weeks
it
is
for debtors,
chimney: no fewer: no
penny.
1782, Aug. 3, Debtor
POOLE Town
Keeper, no falary:
a
week
each.
and
At
my
J-.
\d. no
laft vifit
Two
County Gaol.
13
fees,
1.
table.
fteps.
No
water.
felons, is.
3d.
raifed *.
1776,
Feb. 26,
1782,
Nov.
3,
Debtor
-
*.
o.
is
Felons o.
-
o.
many market
by
One
In fome market, and- even borough towns,, indeed, there are no places
of confinement whatever.
Poole,
Bride-
WELL
DEVONSHIRE.
3 $
Poole.
Poole Bridewell,
Keeper
two.
in the
is
work-houfe yard.
Western Circuit.
is
my
former
into
but now,
vifit.
1776,
Feb. 26,
1782,
Nov.
One
3,
prifoner.
DEVONSHIRE.
HIGH GAOL
EXETER,
at
FOR FELONS.
Ixeter.
GAOLER,
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Felons,
Benjamin Sherry,
Tranfports,
Licence,
14
4,
1:1:0
(See Remarks.)
each.
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance,
Garnifh,
lately abolifhed.
Number,
Felons &c.
20.
33.
Sep. 12,
14.
25.
25.
1783, Feb.
57.
CHAPLAIN,
Sunday
Salary,
gaol
is
for gaol
the property of
rooms
condemned.
John Denny
there
Over
it
Rolle, Efq.
late gaoler
paid
him
is
the
are
more unhealthy
as at
women's lodging-room.
There
under a
20
is
There
felons
are three
feet
ftaircafe.
feet
The
is
( See Remarks.)
and bridewell.
this
prayers.
42
Salary,
THIS
week
/40.
SURGEON,
it
2,
Duty,
Rf marks.
Felons &c.
by 12)
down
three
Thefe dungeons
are
Mr. Rule
the
under ground.
late
rSTi tua
late
DEVONSHIRE.
Circuit.
me
furgeon told
that he was
There
The
court
is
At
made cabbage-nets
jailors fined a
(flag ftones
for
better).
an alarm-bell.
is
dungeons
for an infir-
no bath
In
an
The
is
it
prifoners
forts
from
Two
^1:1:4
in the
would be much
are
to the
offenfive fewer.
formerly
up
lead
flairs that
3*3
in
allowance by a certain weight of good bread, not variable with the price.
There
But by the
no table of fees.
is
clofe
of the preamble
at the Sheriff's
Ward,
The
gaoler
the table there feems to have included originally the fees of this gaol alio.
whom
the
5. The act for preferving the health of prifoners is not hung up.
About Chriftmas, the gaoler permits his prifoners to folicit charity in the city. When
was there in December 1775, the box was broke open, as was fuppofed, by the perfon
contract
who conducted
If any gentleman
them, as he abfconded.
of the contributions,
for meat, firing,
this
&c. would be
far
more
beneficial than
money
difpofal
laid
fpending moft of
their
out
it
in
liquor.
At my vifit in 1779, J 7^ 2 an<^ l 7%3> * found the men together encouraging and
confirming one another in wickednefs, and the women are obliged to afTociate with them
in the
An
day-time f.
elegant fhire-hall
is
now
finifhed
may
it
turn their thoughts to this crowded, offenfive and deflructive gaol, efpecially the proprietor,
who
(in
* This art
is
and who
pofTefTes an eftate to
when
uphold
this prifon
healthy; they faid they earned from three halfpence to two pence a day each, with which they got a
milk, or beer to their bread
might
faid
juftly refer
"
it
little
the magiftrates to
what
have
faid
SHERIFF'S
\
Exeter
High
DEVONSHIRE.
3*4
EX
SHERIFF'S WARD,
COUNTY PRISON
the
Exeter
KEEPER,
Sheriff's
Ward
Western Circuit.
E T E R;
for debtors.
John Jutfum.
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Licence,
Beer.
14
4-
PRISONERS,
Allowance, none.
Garnifh,
4.
Number,
Debtors.
Debtori.
43.
36.
Sep. 12,
24.
23.
34.
CHAPLAIN,
On
none.
Sunday
prifoner
reads
prayers
keeper.
SURGEON,
THE
Remarks.
none.
Sheriff's
county of Devon.
and
alfo
rules
he
his time,
about
fifteen years,
my
at
laft vifit
May
1760
to
Sheriff's
--wit.
At
his
fees
good
for a falary of
no more than
Good
Court fpacious.
fire for
common-fide debtors
100
and
me
told
that
1758,
he was dead.
Devon,
in
faid
adts
is
rooms and
fix
of oeconomy.
during
ward or prifon
It
is
Ward.
of
Jan. 1760 before Richard Beavis Efqr. George Tanner, William Clifford Martin, William Kittfon, Efq.
Warwick Bamfylde
George Tounge Bart. Henry Crewts Efq r . and John Snow, Clerk, Juftices of &c.
appointed
Bart.
to
Sir
enquire
into Fees taken by the prefent Keeper and Gaoler of this County, and having confidered the Table
of Fees heretofore taken by the Keeper of the Sheriff's Ward, and the Fees taken by the Keeper of
the High Gaol and Keeper of the Bridewell of this County doth in purfuance of an A<ft
entitled Sec.
fettle and eftablifh the following Table of Rates and Fees of the Keepers of the faid feveral
Prifbns &c.
.A
Table
DEVONSHIRE.
Western Circuit.
A Table
of the
Rates
Fees
and
385
Ward
for the
Exeter
Sheriff's
County of Devon.
Ward.
For the commitment
To
the turnkey
ufe of the
------
common room
if the
Rd
in a
nothing
ratify the
E.
JVarwick Bamfylde
N/c/j'
We
be
The
it
Wjlmot
WM
Nutcombe Bluett
Noel.
Henry Crewes.
Rules
and
Orders
to
Ward
Cha'Hayne, Sheriff.
No prifoner
if
they do
to be confined.
Doors of lodging-rooms
to
be unlocked
in winter at
fun-rifing
at candle-lighting
in
fummer
at fix.
and locking up
in their feveral
rooms
at nine at night.
is
fhut at night
no
la.-ge
fervice.
may be
put in at
the window.
No
to place
prifoner to
the plaflering.
remove
his
fafety.
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
in
At my
firft vifits
yet no cafements.
this
An
st.
at
infirmary. Keeper's
falary,
employed
EXETER,
thomas's.
and court
3D
at
the
j6o: no fees.
He
was a woollen
His
Bride,
well.
DEVONSHIRE.
386
Exeter
TY
B"de
well.
Western Circuit.
h; s number
I44: anc
m ^ a ^ er feffions
from
fr
78 1 to 1782, 227.
day (weight
in Sep.
in 1773, 163;
in 1774,
1780 to 1781, 184; and
1779 to Eafter 1780, 171;
When I was there in 1775, eight or ten of the prifoners
1774, 19T
dirty.
in
ounces',
The county
a year, but lately this houfe was taken into the prifon, and the falary
is
appointed
for
.36: duty
no
a chaplain, with a falary of ^30, and a houfe joining to the prifon which he
let
fixed time.
Soon
my
after
vifit in
1775 the furgeon and fome of the prifoners died of the gaoland improved. On the men's fide there is a
ing-room
on the women's
The
prifon
fide
now white-warned
twice a year*
No
bath
no
employment.
779> Feb. 5, Prifoners 27.
1782, July 28,
43.
EXETER CITY
GAOLER,
now John
Sarah Strong,
Salary,
20.
Fees,
Debtors. jCo:
16:4.
Felons,
14
COUNTY GAOL,
and
Herbert.
4.
Licence,
Beer.
PRISONERS,
(See Remarks.)
Garnifh,
Felons,
Debtors,
Number,
6.
Feb. 20,
11,
r.
1775,
Dec. 15,
7,
2.
J an
2j
2.
779*
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
>
3,
f.
4,
3.
on the other
Defertcr
1.
none.
But ordered
none.
for felbns
by
the chamber
upon
occafion.
(the long-room,
chimney:
1774,
THIS
and
JJooe)
fide of the
no court:
for
debtors.
The
two rooms
three wards
no water.
In 1779,
found a
woman
lick,
no
DEVONSHIRE.
Western Circuit.
The
and
Here
if
hung up.
8 oz.J
known
not
is
if
S^7
in the gaol, as
no other account
is
from
hung up than
two painted boards, which contain memorials of fundry bequefts. They are not dated;
one of them feems ancient. I will tranfcribe the legacies from thefe after the table of
fees.
The
tailor's
company
4a on
.
Fees
A&
fuance of an
though
it
held
To
of
fee
at
Exon
(to <wit.)
Gaol
nt
for
contempt or
liberate
room
For the
ufe
of a bed
For the
ufe
in a fingle
ufe
week
in
S.
D.
13
4
0
0
6
0
each bed
For the
.
othervvife
the turnkey
For every
at the
in pur-
II
Nath 1 Dewdney
Tho s
CoppL-Jlone.
hath been reviewed and confirmed by us his Majefty's Juftices of Aflize for
Circuit held in and for the City of Exon and County of the fame City.
Wm Thompson.
Fortescue
LEGACIES.
A
MEMORIALL
Seldon
and Elizabeth
as followith
Wife,
to
be diilributed by the Maior and Bayliffes of the Cittie of Exon for ever
Shills
yeerly
Prifoners in the kinges gaole neer the caftell of Exon
In bread weeklie
to the poore
The
26*
of) S
\
my
mayor of
purpofe.
this legacy.
The
DEVONSHIRE.
388
The memorial on
Exeter
is
Western Circuit.
as follows
Exon.
City.
Mrs.
Southgate.
Hejler
There
is
and
laid out in
no memorial
laft wills,
to
Skew *.
mentioned
perfons
this prifon,
&c. printed
Such valuable
in 1736.
Regijlers
of
charities.
of the
imprifoned in the
common
all
church of
his lands
the fuburbs
in
St.
William Paramore by will 2?.d Feb. 1570, bequeathed to the needy prifoners in the
king's gaol in Exeter, in the South-gate gaol there, and in the Counter, to every of
them ten
in
by
Cookrow
Exeter.
Thomas Bridgman by
will
and the
interefl
fum of ^60
to
be
^20
to
prifoners in the lower prifon, and this likewife to continue for ever.
Edward
2"oung,
the 29th of
May.
TIVERTON
1782, Aug.
TIVERTON Town
three above.
and puts
in a deputy.
The
is
is
No
s.
is
window
prifoners.
is
now an
and
is
dirty.
,8:8:0.
the
1,
^d.
Keeper's falary,
prifon
Fees, 3
1782, Aug.
* The $b;w
down a fhoe.
1 ,
Bridewell.
falary.
hung up.
Prifoners 5.
common ward
for
to
beg by
letting
PLYMOUTH
I'latz 22.
DEVONSHIRE.
Western Circuit.
PLYMOUTH TOWN
Three rooms
former, the
in the
for felons
GAOL.
15 feet by
clink,
One
debtors.
for
and about 5^
8 feet 3 inches,
389
of the
with a wicket
feet high,
Ply-
mouth
men who
He
and
noifome
In another
cell.
much
he had
tranfportation,
faid
room (13
whom
one of
weeks when
by 5f and 6
inches thick),
me
allured
feet 9 inches
The
room
other
live
diftant;
No
vifit
there
for
three
fergeants
mace.
at
:
Fees,
4a
155.
no
table.
two-pennyworth of bread a
felons,
ftraw.
Felons &c.
Debtors.
laft
my
at
in that
window
for
is
high, the
with difficulty
feet
five
Debtors.
1.
1779, Feb.
3,
1,
o.
o,
o.
4,
4.
Royal Hospital
the patients
at this place,
As
page 39.
lie
in a
kind of
cradles,
in prifons,
in
buildings, which
Felons &e.
3,
give a view of
which
Thefe
itfelf is in feveral
it
(omitting two
*The
Royal Hospital
for the
reception
nearly equidiftant from the two towns of Plymouth and Plymouth Dock
by
Stcitehoufc,
a fmall
at the
is
fituated at Stemhoufe,
arm of
flood tide.
It confifts
other,
fuch manner, as
The
in front
of
air,
as
alfo
of contagion.
buildings are of rough marble, raifed in the neighbourhood, with purbeck rufticated coyns, and
is
which ferves
The
may
leffer,
in
containing
fix
wards,
in all
fixty
each
ward
fo that
ftone
pillars,
with a
flat
bad weather.
(exclufive of the center,
will
conveniently
hold
twenty cradles,
and in
Royal
HospiTAI
the
9th
DEVONSHIRE.
39
Plymouth
Roval
may
modated.
Hospital.
in
Each ward
The ground-floor of
difpenfers apartments
is
60
by 23
feet
on an emergency be accom-
and 12
feet 8 inches
feet 2 inches
6 inches.
feet
the
floor
firft
firft
and
The
whole, containing in
At
all
handfomely
is
befides
laid out
which there
is
is
means of a
chain pump, throws the water into a leaden cillern, which being higher, conveys the water by means of
leaden pipes, into every ward, for the ufe of the patients, cleanfing the water clofets,
Sec.
every building being furniftied with a bath and copper for heating the water
filling
to the
the baths
temperature
required.
Befides this refervoir, a
new one
the main drains, as alfo the leading drains from the five higher buildings
by fcavengers employed
through them
when
the
wind
by
is
this
in certain directions,
probably
but as
fo
conftru&ed as to admit of a
from the
arifes
cifterns
man walking
being
for
foil
main
to the
drain,
it
fumigating houfe.
nurfe
is
men
and
their
own
paid to cleanlinefs,
Some few erections are Hill wanted to render this Hofpital complete, e. g. the building a chapel diftincl
on fome part of the airing ground, and converting the prefent one into a dining hall for patients on full
diet ; two pavilions at the entrance, one for a receiving room for patients, on admiflion before they are
warded, the other for a council room, furveying invalids See. for want of which many inconveniences in
time of war have been experienced.
Regulations refpeding the nurfes, and other fervants of the royal hofpital;
The
A
lit.
Low Diet.
neceflary.
2d.
Water
For drink,
Half Diet.
bread pudding, or in
beer
3d.
the
men upon
Full Diet.
toaft
Scheme of Diet
and
in the hofpital.
if
For
lieu
to
hung up
of
it,
pottage;
fome greens
for
dinner, half a
own wards.
Breakfaft as above; for dinner one pound of meat, one pint of broth, one pound
laft
named
diets, to
be of the broth
left at
dinner;
Rice milk, orange whey, orange and lemon water, tamarind whey and water, vinegar whey, balm tea,
Thefe to be difcretionally ordered by the Phyfician and Surgeons.
fage tea.
Thus
it
is
done
in the
New
CORNWALL.
5
CORNWALL.
Western Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
LAUNCESTON,
FELONS.
FOR
GAOLER,
at
John Mules,
now John
Carpenter, Efq.
Fees,
Felons,
13
caftle,
Laun-
Coryndon
ceston.
Salary,
391
to 12,
now 16,
4.
none.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Felons, a three-penny loaf each in two days; white or brown at
their option (weight
brozvn,
Number,
lb.
11.
Sep. 13,
4,
4.
8.
o.
6.
1783, Feb.
1.
Mr.
Salary,
this
gaol,
thefe
laft for
damp
3,
at
Bodmin.
Bennett.
though
The
dow
10 as.
15.
one window
lib.
Salary,
SURGEON,
head
Felons, &c.
1779, Feb.
Duty,
THIS
2 oz.J.
Felons, &e.
CHAPLAIN,
is
prifon
caftle,
by 44; and the houfe not coa room or paffage 23-7 feet by 7-5-, with only
is
feet
by if: and three dungeons or cages on the fide oppofite the winare about 6f feet deep
one 9 feet long ; one about 8 ; one not 5
this
2 feet
They were
women.
earth floors
mitted to go out to
lives diftant.
all
no infirmary.
it.
No
very offenfive.
The
chimney
is
no water
no fewers
Their provi-
was put down to them through a hole (9 inches by 8) in the floor of the room
above (uled as a chapel)
and thofe who ferved them there, often caught the fatal
fion
fever.
At my
firft vifit
of
it;
I
it
affiftant,
and
all
one night.
I
learned
Remarks.
CORNWALL.
392
learned that a
Weste rn Circuit.
my
firft vifit
the grand
(by
jury making a collection for her fees) had been confined three years by the ecclefiaftical
court, and had three children in the gaol.
The King,
in
There
^2500
no
is
table of fees.
1776.
this
gaol.
Tn a paffage 5^ feet wide there were for men four new cells (8 feet by 6-i, and 8 feet
4 inches high) a day- room, and a court. Over thefe rooms are the gaoler's apart-
Adjoining
ments.
is
is
for
is
made
fecure
no water.
I
fpect
The mayor
The
at prayers.
prifoners re-
attentive.
no memorial of
Neither claufes againft fpirituous liquors, nor the act for preferving the health of
foners, are
hung
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
Bride-
WLL
The county
walls
pays
^20
fafe
enough
prifon.
It
much
20
to
it.
out of repair;
The
I
and the
2 8
no
is
clofe glazed.
by 12,
fatal,
BODMIN.
at
town.
pri-
up.
310Z.).
table.
Allowance,
20.
1774, Sep. 14, Prifoners 19.
29.
1779, Feb.
13.
4,
new
now
the prifon
is
difcontinued,
and the
SHERIFF
'$
CORNWALL.
Western Circuit.
WARD
SHERIFF'S
KEEPER,
Salary,
25.
Fees,
Debtors,
befides
13
BODMIN,
at
COUNTY PRISON
the
39?,
debtors.
for
Widow.
Bodmin.
4.
1
to the fheriff.
none.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, none.
Garnifti,
Number,
Debtors.
19.
1779, Feb.
13.
none.
with
18.
4,
none.
which the
prifon, for
back court
o.
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
THIS
fherifT paid
ftream running
20
through
*.
The
He
new
have mentioned
fpacious
faid
he had been
in that office
and during the whole time had but four prifoners who obtained
in
is
groats.
gaol.
8.
made of this tax in prifons; and where it is, the gentlemen in the commiflion of the peace probably do not know or attend to it. Keepers always pay it with
grf at reluftance ; and it is a temptation to them to flop up windows the air from which may be very effential
ally noticed it, fince in feveral counties,
no demand
is
COUNTY
Remarks,
CORNWALL.
COUNTY GAOL
Bodmin.
GAOLER,
Western Circuit*
BODMIN.
at
James Chappie.
Salary,
30.
Debtors,
Fees,
17
13
14.
Felons,
5:
Tranfports,
none.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons,
men &c.
of meat
Debtors,
Garnifh,
of bread,
lib. 302.
(fee regulations.)
0:2:0.
Number,
Debtors.
CHAPLAIN,
(fee Launcejlon).
THIS
is
gaol
built
is
8,
fine
eminence,
at
little
is
good houfe
Here
diftance
and a chapel.
for
and of
feet high),
condemned
houfe there
is
cells.
which
There
are
is
furnilhed with a
two rooms
for an
and clock.
There
are feparate
on a
his curate.
Mr. Hamley.
prifoners;
30.
new
where there
by
Saturday
Salary,
Salary,
Remarks.
Petty Offenders.
Duty,
SURGEON,
Felons.
14,
feet
inches
by
bedftead,
ftraw-bed, two
infirmary,
In the centre of
The
men who
the gaoler's
petty offences, are employed in fawing and polifhing ftone, and, as they have the
hung up.
is
The
clean*
is
not
hung up,
CORNWALL.
Western Circuit.
By
395
a fpirited exertion,
1780, to
13,
July
a.
monument of their
*.
Gaol.
Debtors 75,
1782,
27,
A Table
of
Fees
and
Rates,
at i Oil, nin.
DEBTORS.
From
FIRST CLASS.
To the turnkeys,
To keeper at difcharge,
To the turnkeys,
Every debtor lodging
Two fuch
bed
week,
to himfelf, per
own bed
for
SECOND
turnkeys,
To
To
To
at entrance,
Every debtor
lodging-room,
keeper at difcharge,
in the keeper's
Common debtors
To turnkeys,
For
to himfelf, per
DEBTORS
For copy of
of court,
*'.
From
to
pay
my
..
<
for
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
5
2
0
0
0
0
6
9
0
'
0
0
wa#t of
for
is
perfons committed to
who
felons.
From
For every felon acquitted and difcharged
For every perfon bailed out, or difcharged,
0
8
.4
GENERAL.
IN
warrant, if demanded,
at difcharge,
-
Iheriff's
D.
week
s.
0
0
0
turnkeys,
Two
0
0
0
CLASS.
acknowledgments to
*3
4
4
4
13
bridewell.
has taken unwearied pains in this bufinefs, for the prefent of his very elegant drawing and plan of
this prifon.
q1
Articles,
CORNWALL;
39 6
Bodmin
Regulations,
Articles,
County
Bodmin
Gaol.
I.
II.
at entrance permitted to
at
and
Bridewell,
Ward,
Sheriff's
at
be taken.
affray, to be fuffered
actors
Western Circuit.
by
if
games
money
for
IV. Irons to be provided at the county expence, and kept ready, but not ufed, except they are abfolutely
receffary for punifhment or fecurity.
V. Mailer or principal debtors of property, are to be lodged, at their own requeft and choice, in the
rates and no more, for rooms, beds, and diet.
Ordinary debtors
are to be lodged over the arcades in beds of the keepers, or their own, according to their choice or ability
of paying the eftablifhed rates.
VI. Every man felon, and bridewell criminal, fhall be allowed every day one pound and three
ounces of good wholefome bread, and every woman felon, and bridewell criminal, one pound of the
fame
of
fort
bread,
fuch
unlefs
for
ill-
behaviour.
hard labour
The
ployment.
The
fhall
be
kept thereto
ftrictly
ftated time
and
fome work.
to
all
in
keeper to have one fixth part of the earnings, the perfons labouring one fixth part for their
amount of
their extra
em-
in winter.
own
ufe r
go
to the
be
at fix o'clock in
the
reft
to
county ftock,
The head
VIII.
firft
of November to the
fuffered to
go
to be kept
always
to
be
is
is
to
day time,
let out,
unlefs to
from the
No
perfon to be
the doors
and windows
ftaircafe,
which are
fhut.
night
any
courts, nor
thirty-firft
cells to
thought neceflary,
ment
thirty-firft
The
JX.
if
To
of the year.
be cleaned by one of the prifoners daily, and wafhed once a week, or oftener,
flicks, ftones,
to the offender,
X. The chaplain
in the chapel, at
for
and indulgence
which
all
will
be allowed.
down
No
filth
of any kind
to be left in the
to the informer.
faft,
perfons in the feveral wards muft attend, (if in a condition fo to do) otherwife
behave well,
fhall
who
have, befides the eftablifhed allowance of bread, half a pound of meat, at the county
XII.
It is
and every
requefted and
juftice
recommended to
adling in the commiffion of the peace, to infpect, as often as poflible, the gaol and
bridewell, and to enquire into the treatment of the prifoners, and the diftribution of their refpe&ive allow-
ances.
The
fheriff
and
his
deputy,
it
is
to
vifit,
XIII.
The
CORNWALL.
Western Circuit.
The head
XIII.
which he
397
is
Place of
how
difpofed of
Remarks on behaviour,
or
&c.
FALMOUTHTOWNGAOL.
Two
court
inches
feet 8
by 9
no chimney
dirt floor;
feet 8,
no water.
lives near
no
falary
no
fees,
6 s. %d. no table.
j 775, Dec. 19, Prifoners
1783, Feb. 5,
Feb.
TRURO Town
Gaol.
which
confifts
chimneys
are the
No
At
A Prison
Gaol.
full
11
floor
feet
for
his
houle,
with
fquare, and
very damp.
He
to
little
laid,
for
the prifon
is
PENZANCE
the
Hundred and
Two
to
prifoner.
no court
is
no water,
alfo
Liberties of
rooms
fight
the
in
Pen with
keeper's
ftable-yard
away the
for
no chimney.
clear
The room
and hearing.
6 high:
One
1783, Feb. 4,
when
is
Earth
went
but
men
in
dirt.
have been robuft, but was grown pale by ten weeks clofe confinement,
food, which he had from a brother,
with forrow)
to fend for
He has
the
little
a family.
whom died
written me a leLter
the
houfes in front,
Dec. 21,
from
Two
keepers.
prifoners.
1775,
The
2,
water.
PENZANCE Town
diftant
3>
mace who
no
o.
o.
fince
he came
thither,
fince,
by which
learn
and the
that
hb
He
reft
had a wife
were almoft
diftrels
was not
mitigated,
Bodmin.
Penzance,
A L
Western Circuit.
L.
mitigated,
Keeper no
C O R
39$
falary
fees,
s.
prifoners,
five
no
fheriff's
ward
family,
that
he had
The
are
the
of
firfl
(There are
eftate
who was
continual
arreftcd for
plaintiff paid
the
for
The
rules
a prifoner
his
room on
a large
Duke
of the
the property
Is
1.
room below
vaulted
Thefe
for
me
keeper told
it.
rooms defigned
Debtors,
for
allowance.
feveral other
No
floor
himfelf.
as
table.
him
the
man had
payment of them
Keeper no
falary
fees,
a large
two years
13
but the
4^. no
s.
table.
PENRYN
feet fquare
4.
2.
Borough Gaol.
chimney
in each.
1783,
PENRYN
earl
inches.
for beer.
as
Prison,
at
for
One room
Keeper now pays
of Godolphin.
Two
The
No
Feb. 6,
Debtors.
12
2.
rooms adjoining
con liable
13 feet by
rent,
12
to the town-hall,
prifoners.
and 6^ high
:
o.
Fees,
prifons,
window
2 feet
by
inftead
foot
Licence
135.4^. notable.
fome other
about 74
keeper.
Leonard's chapel
St.
12-i,
:
is
of which, here,
outfide,
is
written,
1775,
o.
1782^ Feb.
6, Prifoner 1.
SOMERSETSHIRE.
SOMERSETSHIRE.
Western Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
at
399
IVELCHESTER.
Ivelches.
TER.
Edzvard Scadding.
Salary,
25.
Fees,
Debtors,
Tranfports,
12
Felons,
6:8.
o each.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
two pence
Felons,
Aug. 2,
bread (weight,
in
Debtors.
Felons See.
31,
22.
1779, Feb.
7,
33,
15.
2,
45,
18.
1782, Aug. 2,
38,
14.
34,
17.
Aug.
CHAPLAIN,
Duty,
Salary,
SURGEON,
Mr.
Salary,
now Mr.
now 16.
Shorland,
j8,
THE gaol
in
lately
Felons &c.
Debtors.
felons
0:3:6.
Garnifli,
Number,
court, a
is
day-room and
;
now Mr.
Pear/on.
Palmer.
feet
by
which two fmall windows towards the river are improperly flopped up
which
The women
no bedfteads.
is
no water.
Thefe have
felons
have
no feparate
Remarks.
The
fifteen
have a day-room
Pejler,
ft
lodging-room and
day-room
raw on
a clofe
a room, which
is fit,
and feems to have been defigned for that ufe, is taken by the gaoler for a ft able. No
infirmary: no bath. This gaol is too fmall for the general number of prifoners. Aflizes
never held here.
Prifoners are
and
eight days.
From
Midfummer
the bridewell at
for trial to
is
Taunton
or to Wells, where
there
or to
is
no
prifon at all:
prifoners,
removed
not
yet,
No
.
afllze
hung up.
a legacy of
Midfummer.
at
Mr.
Kelfon of
fifty (hillings
at
SOMERSETSHIRE.
4oo
IvelchesTER
County
Gaol.
At
Somerfet, to <wit.
Before
Edward Phelips,
Efq.
*
A Table
Gaol
For
To
in
fettled
and eftablifhed
faid
allowed
day of March
31ft
to
Iwlchejler 1761
at
virtue of an Aft
County by
the
Sec.
of
-held
Western Circuit.
33d of
s.
0 13
1
0
For every debtor's lodging fingly weekly including the ufe of a bed and bedding
But if two debtors lodge together then each weekly
The gaoler is not to compel any debtor to lodge fingle.
If a debtor has a bed and bedding of his
own
own
common
Geo. II.
Edw*
4
0
0
0
it
D.
m Rodbard,
Pbelips,
Giles Strangway.
J?i Brickdalc^
Tho Camplin,
s
29 July
76 1.
W*
ratify the
to the faid
ltatute.
Eardly Wilmot
W
Stmerfet,
faid
At
to tx.it.
County of
Somerfet, the
Gun/ion,
in
15th day of January in the year of our Lord 1760, before John Brickdak,
Pincbnan, Thomas
Noel.
Jufticesof our lord the King, afligned to keep the Peace of our faid lord the King, and alfo to hear
and determine divers Felonies Trefpaffes and other Mifdemeanors done or perpetrated
and
in the
fame County
fo forth.
A Table
of
Rates
and
Fees
fattled
and eftablifhed
at this faid
Peace, allowed to be taken by the Gaoler and Keepers within their refpective Gaols or Prifons in
and for the faid County, together with Rules and Orders to be by them refpe&ively obferved and kept
made
in
the
3 2d
Year of
his prefent
Majefty's
Reign.
To
For every
faid
from the
twenty-four hours
arreft
For every other expence, the guard and every charge included, for the whole time he
remain in cuftody
To
not be paid)
For
fhall
To
the turnkey
in
cafes
fhall think
the prifoners bed and bedding weekly if found by the keeper if fingle
if
D.
-004
-010
a Bailiffe:
it
S.
036
lhould
-0134
-010
-010
double each
To
SOMERSETSHIRE.
Western Circuit.
To
For
in
faid
County
IVELCHES-
D.
and felon (except in cafes where the court
the turnkey
fliall
think
it
ought
TER.
County
Gaol.
not to be paid)
To
common Gaol
401
own
it
and Lady-day
at eight
up every evening
of the clock
in the
at fun-fet; to
be
let
at fix of the
To
have liberty
The
Each
buy
to
their
being
each day
Felons
fick felon to
The whole
to
reft as
conveniently as poflible
W.
John Brickdale
This
pf
is
a true
May
1782 by
filed
Rodbard
Tbo. Gun/Ion
J. Somers
Examined
this
zd day
me
Geo.
faid
county of Somerfet
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
TAUNTON.
which
the
a
it
This prifon, called Wilton gaol (from the name of the parifh
ftands), has
condemned
cell,
On
the
firft
floor the
women's lodging-room,
and
women
are togethei
day-room.
in the
No
who pay
vifit
Keeper's
in
irons.
1779,
Two
falary,
all
25
fees,
14
my
4^. no
s.
table.
laft vifit
two
for them.
Some
employment.
day.
in
Men
years ago,
women and
At my
man, were
in
never ufed.
chaplain of this bridewell, and of that at Shepton-Mallet (as well as to the chaplain
Mallet.
1774, Aug.
2,
Prifoners 7.
Sep. 10,
5-
16.
1779, Sep.
2,
1782, Aug.
1,
Prifoners 10.
-
3F
1.
SHEPTON-
BrideWELLS.
SOMERSETSHIRE.
402
Bridewell.
HEP TO N -MALLET.
and women.
The
me
his prifon
week: no
The women's
clofe.
no
it,
for
men
night-room, 16 feet by 7
to
make
his malt-loft.
He
He
infirmary.
One day-room
Western Circuit.
a Iheriff's officer.
is
falary,
table.
hung up.
This prifon
is
25:
Claufes
Aug.
3,
10.
29.
TAUNTON
Town Gaol.
Keeper no
prifoners.
10
Two
Fees, 6
falary.
s.
Fees,
Debtors,
Felons,
Tranfports,
Licence,
^5
rooms
12.
in an old houfe
No
8 d.
no
table.
Licence
COUNTY
and
now William
Gown-money, 2
none.
for beer.
1,
Henry Williams>
Salary,
2,
BRISTOL CITY
GAOLER,
1782, Aug.
per annum.
1782, Aug.
Bristol.
GAOL.
Driver.
a year.
6:8.
13
4.
o each.
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
a pennyworth of bread a day, before
Felons,
of bread
Garnifh,
after
Debtors.
Felons &c.
53,
38.
Aug.
23,
33>
*5i
i775> Dec.
7,
36,
16.
16,
35,
18.
CHAPLAIN,
Duty,
two-pennyworth
0:2:7.
Number,
1776,
trial
convi&ion.
Debtors.
i779> Feb.
8,
44,
Sep.
1,
47,
1,
33,
1782, Mar.
Felons &c.
21.
9-
(See Remarks.)
Salary,
SURGEON,
Salary,
BRISTOL
SOMERSETSHIRE.
Western Circuit.
403
BRISTOL NEWGATE.
THIS
Newgate
number of
The
rooms
of the
It
city.
is
For debtors
prifoners.
week
others,
two
fhillings
by
8-jhigh: barrack-bedfteads
fmall window.
There
Pit,
no bedding nor
down
18 fteps,
ftraw.
It
is
a convenient bath,
There
are
clofe.
nor of
in diverfions
found
it
paifages
clean
Here
out of order.
A room or two
&c.
at the
it
no proper
is
considering
with the
In this court
felons.
is
requifite
was fcraped and white-warned once a year before the act for prefer ving the
It
parts of
fines,
many narrow
I
That act
commodious and has a
health of prifoners.
is
Pumps
for an infirmary.
which
mix
feparation of
to
is
is
clofe
is
it.
neatly painted
is
gallery
on a board hung up
the chapel,
in
No
hung up.
table of gaoler's
fees.
interefts
of the prifoners
its
*.
officiating near
Mr.
Eafter brook
in attention
now
appointed.
He
falary.
a legacy.
left
100
to be
lent to
about
debtors,
No
memorial
in the gaol
to
is
of any
legacy.
A Table
of
Fees Town
Clerk
Brtftol.
ij
This was written before November 1776, when Mr. Rouquet died in the forty-feventh year of
his age.
The
general forrow, and the fermons preached and printed on that occafion, more than jaftify what I have
faid
this
pious divine.
3
BRISTOL
Remarks.
SOMERSETSHIRE.
44
Bristol.
BRISTOL
common
of a
City Bridewell.
footway
rooms
The common-fide,
one a day-room
The
ufe
the
in
it
is
on one
fide
fide.
Each
chambers.
Part of
Western Circuit.
part has
feet
by 17^)
windows
no chimneys.
to the court;
court being quite out of fight of the keeper's houfe, he does not fuffer prifoners to
it
nor the
rooms
pump
in
it.
They have no
employment.
handed to them
is
20
to
He
30.
and
no ftraw
Little or
money
receives the
all
no
for
bread allowance, two pence a day: but the prifoners often allured me, that what he gave
them from
acquitted
his
own
woman
s.
BATH
City Gaol.
times overflowed,
by
is
The
In Dec. 1775,
releafed an
1779, Feb.
8, Prifoners 8.
1782, Mar.
1,
19.
7.
a fine flight
d.
of ftone
On
fteps.
meadow which
the ground-floor
is
fome-
is
the keeper's
rooms for petty offenders. Above are three ftories ; five rooms
on each: one or two of them ufed by the keeper: the reft for debtors; one bed in a
room, in which if two prifoners fleep, they pay two (hillings a week each if one has it
Two rooms on the fecond ftory are free wards,
to himfelf, he pays four fhillings a week.
kitchen, &c. and four
s.
6 d.
on the upper
is
their work-fhop.
officer
s.
no
falary
8 d.
no
There
fees, if
table.
is
from
Licence
for beer.
tions); to offenders
id. a day.
hung up.
Debtors.
Offenders.
Debtors.
Offenders.
1774, Aug. 6,
16,
2.
10,
2.
14,
1.
3,
5.
16,
11,
o. Deferters 3,
1776,
up twenty-feven
women. AfFize
plained to
long
floor
Keeper, a fherifFs
me
prifoners.
In this
Monday
to Saturday.
feflions
thirteen
The
two of them
keeper's mother
com-
a time.
2,
No
prifoners.
YORKSHIRE.
YORKSHIRE.
Northern Circuit,
COUNTY
GAOLER,
Salary,
Debtors,
Fees,
Admiflion,
Tranfports,
10
8:8.
9:6.
3:4.
Felons,
Licence,
405
10
o each.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors,
by
certified
Felons,
Garnifh,
cancelled in 1774.
Number,
Felons &c.
Debtors.
no,
33-
49>
Nov.
CHAPLAINS,
on Ttiefday
3,
Debtors.
May
Felons &c.
7,
76,
14.
30.
June 28,
73,
16.
8 9,
44.
69,
38,
32.
1779,
Duty,
Salary,
Friday.
Not
SURGEON,
Salary,
IN
full
is
the
Mr.
Stillingfeet,
for debtors
an afcent by a
is
Mr.
the county;
Bridges
25 from
felons*.
fine flight
of ftone fteps to a
Above them
is
floor
The rooms
The
juft
in
felons court
is
down
5 fteps:
it
is
is
no work-room.
&c.
The day-room
The
and healthy.
are airy
On
a legacy.
lift.
^40
There
ir
by 6, and 8| high;
6
men
is
only 24
and three
in
another.
for
clofe
pump
fe.et
by
The
is
cells
either
a hole
Remark!.
YORKSHIRE.
406
York
Castle,
of
hours
on the ftone
ftraw
about 7
and
at night
brought
to be
is
in
from fourteen
in winter
There
no bedfteads.
paffages often
makes
by the gaoler's
to fixteen
condemned rooms
are four
feen,
floors
feet fquare.
very offenfive
Northern Circuit,
is
The
fervants.
fcarcely ever
next houfe to
the caftle-gate, and others in the neighbourhood, have river-water laid in at a moderate
expence, and at
No
court.
my
Women-felons
down
room
laft vifit it
was brought into the caftle-yard, but not into the felons
bath.
are kept quite feparate
in another part
is
of the gaol
near
it is
room
you go
Their condemned
to confine debtors
who do
not
behave well.
The
is
at
one of
my
When
prifoners of one
vifits a fick
man was
kept
Friday.
befides
it
He
to the prifoners.
The
gaoler
is
The grand
s.
to
infpect and
a IherifFs officer.
Tuefday and
allowance of 1
county-clothing *.
Thofe
caft at affize
feffions had,
6 d. a week.
in the caftle-yard is
fhire-hall
now
finifhed.
May
it
gentlemen of
this great
for felons, in
which boys may be feparated from old offenders, and the other inconve-
county will not flop there, but proceed to build a proper prifon
At my
Torkjhire.
Orders and Fees fettled by the
of York and confirmed by the Juftices of Affize
Juftices
which
fhall
laft vifit,
by
the gaoler
and
Firft
For
Every efquire
fhall
pay
commons
at table
t The
public-fpirited
improvement of
active
for his
committed by warrant on a
for his
this
all
be legally altered.
weekly commons
at table if
civil action
weekly
if
s.
D.
013
10
Gentlemen of
branch of police.
this
I
have to return
my
attentive to the
acknowledgments (tranfmitted to me by
polite
that
my
For
YORKSHIRE.
Northern Circuit.
For
his fee if
committed by warrant on a
Every gentleman
commons
for his
civil aftion
weekly
at table
he
if
Every gentleman
for the
And
that
when
fame
fame
more
them
bed they
fhall
D.
4
-034
-006
006
-004
-002
prifoners in one
s.
10
080
-080
068
eats with
.
o
them
eats with
Every
407
pay
for their
And
every prifoner
who provides
And
that
and
his
fhall
pay nothing
to fell the
week
fhall
pay for
to
their
commitment
to the turnkeys
aflize
fee only
fhall
be
turnkey
pay
fhall
to
-068
-02
pay
committed
to
076
-020
-020
-
every perfon that fhall appear upon recognizance for fufpicion of felony and
is
thereupon
upon
fhall
by pardon
difcharging fee
to the
ufe only
that every
which
own proper
And
and no more
fame
And
And
-068
-020
And
And
him
every prifoner fhall have liberty to provide and fend for victuals drink and other
and not
And
againfi:
necefTaries
And
be feveral attions
if there
And upon
And that
fhall
fame
for the
others that fhall be committed to gaol before the aflizes or gaol-delivcry and fhall
020
to wit.
At the Aflizes held at the Caftle of 2V/ 14th July 1735 the 9 th of George II.
before the Honourable Alexander Denton Efquire one of his Majefly's Juftices of the Court of
Common
Teripire,
Pleas,
Bench,
Alex Denton
Wm Lee.
Torkjhire Eaft
Riding
John Grimjlon
Ramfden Barnard
Weft Riding
of Torkjhire
Geo Nelthorpe
N Hawey.
John Dodfworth
John Milbanke
North Riding of
Torkjhire
Tho. Grimjlon.
John
JVaJlcll.
An
8
York.
Castle.
YORKSHIRE.
>408
York
An
Account of the
Charity
Northern Circuit.
CaSTLE
'
The Lady
Lumley, to be given yearly on St. Thomas's day and paid by the lord
Dr. Pbineas
Alderman White
in his
all
S.
D.
o
-026
o
o
10
2
bread by the name of Sixain's bread, paid out of a clofe belonging to John
Mr.
mayor of York
-160
-100
Mrs. Mary Laiv/on of Micklegate in the city of York widow by will dated the 22d July 1729 gave 100
for the difcharging of poor prifoners for debt out of the county gaol of York whofe debts did not
exceed the fum oizo
with faid
The
money
and her executrixes Mrs. Catharine Bower and Mrs. AnnMaxnell difcharged
thirty-two prifoners.
right honourable Richard earl of Burlington and Sir George Savile Bart, gave each of
for the like
eighteen prifoners.
C O
Bride-
UN TY BRIDEWELLS.
WEST-RIDING, WAKEFIELD.
ground
but
all
fo that
it is
to floods.
is
though adjoining
A prifon
Keeper's
are fpacious
made very
offenfive
by
They
upon low
unfortunately built
little
This prifon
The
coals.
on ground
fo
No
fees.
now
are
low
let
out to the
from^8o to,fio5; he
brick,
May
1779,
32.
-Oft. 27,
19.
NORTH-RIDING, THIRSK.
Six
ImprefTed 4.
26.
in
one of them
The county has ground enough about this prifon to enlarge it, and
feparate the men and women.
If they do, they fhould think of an infirmary for
the keeper told me his prifoners had the gaol-fever not long ago.
His falary,
a chimney.
0.6
10
o.
Fees, is.
7/6 )
Jan.
779>
June 28,
Mar. 23,
1782,
13,
hung up.
Prifoners 3.
2,
9.
YORKSHIRE.
Northern Circuit.
EAST- RIDING,
No
half a year.
On
pump, but a
ftraw.
May
7, Prifoner
2.
1779,
1.
2.
YORK CITY
GAOLER,
Brim-
BEVERLEY.
49
now
Francis Meggefon.
He
pays
10
nowjfio.
Fees,
Debtors,
i.
1-.
COUNTY GAOL.
and
Quint in Ackam,
Salary,
10
York.
0:6:8.
0:7:8.
Felons,
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none but legacies.
Felons,
of
(See Remarks.)
late,
0:7:0.
Garnilh,
Number,
Felons &e.
Debtors.
11,
7.
10,
2.
3,
5,
1.
1779,
7,
12,
2.
9,
3.
5,
3..
Nov.
CHAPLAIN,
none.
S.URGEON,
Mx.fValiiSy occafionally.
THIS
May
Deferters 2
gaol upon Oufe-bridge, called the Kidcots, has on one fide of the bridge
feet fquare
pay
fix-
pence a week.
ftreet.
y.'omen,
down
10.
There
is
new room,
At
for
level
prifoners
which was of
3
iron grates,
"R EM
AS
K!
YORKSHIRE.
Northern Circuit.
who feemed to have had enough before. At my firft vifits there was no water
but when there was too much
that is, in a very high flood
then it
Gaoler, a lheriff's officer for city and
flows into the rooms: now water is laid in.
county.
There is now a table of donations hung up.
to thofe
in this prifon,
City of York.
Honourable
Sir
Seflions
Guildhall
at
15th
July
1737
Right
before the
Charles Sl;r:Jy fq r . of
Recorder
Gaoler's Fees
fettled
Orders
and
made &c.
And
for the
firft
To the porter or
And for every
firlt
action
And
to the
For the
And
turnkey
firlt
week's diet of
afiizes
own
upper gaol
every week
week
firlt
or his deputy on
fhare of
demand? and on
box-money
difcretion
fhall
refufal
or fland in charge
or
affifts
pay
to
in the
for
to
mailer's fide
fheets for
he thinks proper.
two beds
in each
who
curling,
be levied by
diftrefs
on goods
or
flopped out of
low gaol.
an efcape
permit
if
to
to be ironed.
is
On
the gaoler
s.
night
firft
And
And
is
And
his
Audit
every prifoner
in the
the prifoner
all
For lodging
him
D.
-054
-010
-010
-006
068
010
-070
-006
-003
-004
-002
006
-003
.
after
diflurb &c.
demand and
to be kept in
refufal
a prifoner
clofe confinement.
the
will,
Kaye, Mayor.
T.
Sam.
Place
in the
Clarke.
faid City.
dated 21ft October 1580, gave three fhillings and four pence yearly, to
The
corpoiation of York pay yearly Peacock's gift, being three pounds four fhillings, to be divided amongft
the poor prifoners.
gift,
being
one pound
fix
fhiilings,
is
diftributed weekly
in bread
to
the
prifoners.
YORK
YORKSHIRE.
Northern Circuit.
YORK
City Bridewell.
Has
day-room
for
411
for
women
Down
damp.
is
No
court
no water no fewer. Keeper's falary, .20 fees, 2 s.
One chaldron of coals annually from the
no bread allowance.
corporation.
At one of my vifits fome prifoners were employed, in beating or pounding tile-fherds for the bricklayers, which is fold at 2d. or gd. a bumel.
thefe thirty years.
ftraw,
a year
St.
1774, Nov.
is
3,
Prifoners 3.
779>
May
8, Prifoners 4.
1.
June 28,
8.
Sep. 20,
4.
3.
PETER's Gaol,
Dean
who
He
in
in
he lived before are added to the debtors apartments, and they have now four rooms.
Under
No
thofe .are
two
cells
All
for criminals.
out of repair
no court
no fewers.
allowance.
There
liberty
is
a printed
of St. Peter.
fixty-two
of parifhes,
lift
Within the
city
and
ainfty,
nine places
in the Eaft-Riding,
is
one place in
1779,
May
8,
BEVERLEY Town
1.
1.
2.
Felon
5.
Felon
2.
r.
o.
1.
Has on the ground-floor two rooms for menwomen: and two for debtors. No water: no
ftraw.
Keeper no falary, but as fergeant at mace has .3
fees, 45.
no table.
Licence for beer. A common alehoufe, like many other town gaols.
criminals
Gaol.
Debtors.
1774, Nov.
2,
The Hall-Garth,
Criminals.
Debtors.
May
Giminals.
1,
o.
1779,
7,
2,
o.
2,.
o.
o,
o.
1,
1.
for Debtors,
in
the
liberty
of
St.
John's
of Beverley, the
property of Charles Anderfon Pelham, Efq. built a few years fince, has over the hall
feet
fire-places.
No
court: no water:
fees,
York
City.
YORKSHIRE.
fees,
4*. id.
no
There
table.
is
lift
Northern Circuit*
1774, Nov.
o.
o4
Sep. 21,
RICHMOND
mondfhire,
Gaol, For
Lord
by
ft
and 6
6,
no
pays window-tax
2..
It is
Here
is
Aug.
17,
be
which the
dition
10
o:
at difcharge
latter
is
York.
at
properly
The two
following are
omitted there.
" And
whomever they
caftle
be.,
"
fhall ufe or
"
"
that every fuch perfon or perfons fo offending, fhall forfeit for every
the
borough,
for the
fid.
13
fees,
criminals,
The
high
feet 8 inches
raw.
a bailiff
ie
now
Holdernefs,
1.
clofe glazed.
feet
not
7, Prifoner
the property of
late
May
1-779,
alfo
No
2, Prifoners 2.
fum q 12 d.
to
is
a prifoner,
fuch fault
" men and women in the low gaol or prifon, or every fuch perfon fo offending to be.
" committed to the faid low prifon, at the difcretion of the keeper of the gaol or his.
" deputy there."
" Every perfon or perfons that fhall be committed upon any warrant upon his her
'
or their
*'
their gamijlo."
commitment
to gaol fhall
pay to the
RIPON
1779,
May
8,
1.782,
Nov.
19,,
Liberty Gaol,
free
ward.
6.
13.
Petty Offenders'
^d.
for.
1.
2..
called the
For
2.s.
6.
houfe; but no
Is
of the prifoners,
reft
felons,
Court Military.
five
good rooms
The
liberty
in the keeper's
another with a
little
YORKSHIRE.
Northern Circuit.
little
Formerly there was a deep dungeon, but the prefent fteward, inftead
very humanely ordered it to be filled up. Allowance to felons, 6d. a
window.
of repairing
it,
he
day.
table
RIPON
Ripon.
10
is
15 s. \d. no
Fees, debtors,
bailiff.
May
8,
17-82,
Nov.
19,
Debtors
2.
-3.
o.
not only a gaol for that court, but a houfe of correction for the liberty.
for debtors, but
No
court
no
free ward.
no water.
No
1776, Oft.
Prison,
gaoler
keeper of bridewell,.
as
Keeper a
bailiff.
o.
Debtor
for
Prifoners
26,
8,
1779, May
1782, Nov. 19,
KNARESBROUGH
The
falary as
Fees, debtors,
0.
1779,
Gaol, For
It
Three rooms
8 feet by 7.
10
is
Petty Offender
1.
o.
Debtors,
In
1.
o..
honour
the
the
is
or
foreft
of
property of the
duke of DevonJlAre, leflee to his Majefty. It is almoft the only remains of a caflle
One room about
granted by king Edward III. to John of Gaunt duke of Lancajier.
another
fquare, is nozv boarded, has a chimney, and the window is glazed
1 2 feet
"
inner
room
about 8
is
Keeper
water.
feet
lives diftant
fquare,
falary
No
court:
no fewer: no
6s. Sd.
fees,
May
8,
o..
17.82,
Nov. 20,
1.
KNARESBROUGH
Prison,
difficult
accefs
12 feet fquare
a
common
an
Town
window
17 inches by 6.
Debtors,
Earth floor
it
no
Is
under the
hall.
to defend
face
much
disfigured
laft vifit
Of
uncovered.
very offenfive
was informed
confined here feme years flnce, for only a few days, took in with
officer,
dog
At my
for
that
him a
by them.
and the
drain covered.
1776,
Oct
26,
1779,
May
8,
No
prifoners.
KN A R E'S-
YORKSHIRE.
4H
Knaresbrough.
KNARESBROUGH Town
fljgh ts 0 f
up
ft orie
6.
Gaol,
mention
Is
the hall.
to
Northern Circuit.
becaufe in
it
8 feet
by 5
are fometimes
At my
lad
vifit this
by 5
13 feet 8 inches
DONCASTER Town
debtors
Fees,
is.
No
</.
rooms
for
BRADFORD
Court not fecure
who
5,
1775, Jan.
1779, J une 2 7>
Prifoners 2.
1782, April 4,
Debtor
Prison,
In
felons,
for
^20, and he
a
new
1.
The deputy
2:5:0
whom
1779,
It confifts
receives
for
his houfe
he was appointed.
Fees, 5 s*.
five children,
and he
faid
One
Keeper's
in prifon.
May
chimney
lately efcaped
no court
by
o.
13,
7.
no water: no fewer.
May
LEEDSTown Gaol.
files
for Halifax,
and a work-room.
No
for
mace,
By
at
no water.
"
prifoners.
water.
At my
No
to the gaoler,
8,
Two
Gaol.
have chimneys.
all
May
1779,
o.
o.
By
windows
no
-f
Nov. 20,
1,
t In this town is a fmall neat infirmary of forty-eight beds. The wards are lofty, and were not offenfive ; and the conftrucYum of the building feemed to me better calculated for the health of the patients,
than that of moll of our county hofpitals and infirmaries.
Kingjlon
YORKSHIRE.
Northern Circuit.
Kingjlon upon
HULL Town
by 164.
Over
both for
criminals.
it
The ground-room
debtors to walk on
for
no court
no water
Mr.
table.
day.
collection
and Thurfdays.
is
preferving the
for
Felons &c.
Debtors.
May
7.
8,
1.
6,
3.
7,
4.
Sep. 21,
4,
5.
HULL
22
feet
no fewer
Two
Bridewell.
by
or the
no draw.
common-gaol,
2 feet fquare
10;
no allowance
no
firft
fire-place.
prifoners
three calendar
for
III.
^5
a chaldron of coals
1774, Nov.
Prifoners 2.
1,
5.
Sep. 21,
o.
SHEFFIELD
lunatic f,
Prison,
wards
Both
fquare.
there are
this
and
turfs
1779,
for
May
now
prifon
Keeper no
b,
Keeper's
no
6d.
table.
2.
Petty Offenders
4.
lunatic.
The
The two
court
is
lower rooms
adjacent
that
Mx. S
2 s.
have i^d*.
7, Prifoners 11.
they
fees,
in
act
1779,
xx xvi 1.
The prifoners pound tile-ftierds to mix
and pick oakum (for which they
bufhel)
f The
three pence a
to felons,
o.
Cap.
are
no
5,
fent hither,
falary,
no
1,
Court only
d.
i^s. 4
Felons &c.
Debtors.
pump
The
three years *.
in
1774, Nov.
Kingji'on upon
In
is
health of prifoners
floor,
Allowance
feflions,
feet
week-
criminals
to
Fees,
Hilary.
22^
women
(hilling a
accetfibte
Gaoler no
is
who pay
the keeper's houfe are five rooms with beds, for thofe
Leads
ward
debtors
is
The
that,
much
credit
therefore;
many
years.
prifon,
YORKSHIRE.
4.6
She?FILD
'
prifon.
weeks.
Northern Circuit.
At my
fifteen
at the
laft vifit,
Oa.28,
SHEFFIELD Town
May
14, Prifoners 8.
6.
*779>
4.
When
May
1779,
14,
ROTHWELL
1.
Prifoners
o.
new
prifon
BATLEY.
front
is
is
Behind
feet fquare
four
prifon.
On
much
women-debtors
for
for
and
rent
.1774,
but
at
There arc
in a feparate
Fees, fee
Nov.
4, Prifoners 25,")
-
day-rooms
the day
court
the
two
and work-
two rooms
for
The
keeper
He
table.
is
a bailiff
has
bailiff
RothweU
18, iBatlej.
25,)
4,-^
faid
he had
was there, one William Carr, a weaver
lhe cited him to the
good one
:
22,J
May
Two
laft vifit
five or fix
^60.
ecclefiaftical
my
13,
men-debtors
for
Plan rectangular
the prifon.
rooms
lodging-rooms.
provifion
is
"
out of repair.
falary.
*< to
Is
gate.
about 10
at this
lately built at
work-rooms
no
Prison,
o.
Pontefract in the
3.
in this prifon.
Deferter
thirteen
and fix-pence.
fliillings
The
Gaol.
end of
work
at
for
May
as
1774.
much
faid
He had
as the royal
W.jC. until
the injury
he
have made
to be wanting
fatisfaftion to
was, difcharged
J wifh
YORKSHIRE.
Northern Circuit;
my
I wifli
Yet
think
my
At
fums
firft
nth
vifit
fees
and
many
which
at
417
faw
The
table was
January 1732.
at Batley, I
fees dated
Imprimis,
his
And
week following
Every yeoman, tradefman, or
commitment
be
it
for
is
alfo
(hall
the
week's
firft
commons
at
and
table
artificer,
pay nightly
for his
bed
gaoler lodgeth
D.
-0160
to their
numbers
him or
it
he or Ihe
And
fee
week following
for every
they
And
artificer,
s.
firft
for every
Item.
And
And
And
And
for his
in
050
0134
O40
004
002
one bed
-003
fhall
his,
her or their
And
And
Item.
Item.
to the turnkey
For
by the gaoler
for
corpus
conduft
befides
-010
-068
-068
fee fhall be
aftion againft
money
to
be
removed
Hen. Wickham
paid and
allowed according to the diftance from the faid gaol to the place where the bedy
to be
17
is
H.
P. Mines
Vouch.
J. Norton
P. Milnes
H.
W.
H. AsHURST.
Zouch-
HALIFAX
Batlev.
YORKSHIRE.
4i8
Northern Circuit.
HALIFAX PRISON*,
Halitax.
For the manor of Wakefield, dated 1662, is the property of the duke of Leeds
mafter's-fide debtors, four rooms in the keeper's public houfe.
Through this
you pafs to a court about 14 yards by 7
at the further end of which is
a
fizeable room on the ground-floor for common-fide debtors, it is called the
Low Gaol: over it a chamber (the Low Gaol Chamber) where prifoners pay one
The whole prifon greatly out of repair: it rained in upon the
milling a week.
For
beds:
Keeper, no falary:
clean.
Here
is
j.
firft
Saturday in every
Turner
"
u
of Halifax,
Halifax
in
" houfing
to
jail,
in
" Southgate to
who conftantly
butcher,
left
by
will
Bull green."
"
This
is
Jonathan
Cheapfide, in
1724.
in
Halifax, or the
Thefe houfes
This annuity
charged on fome
pofleffion of
in the
are
is
leading
ftreet
Mr.
Waterhonfe,
pays the legacy, and his name almoft enfures the continuance of the
benefaction.
24,
Sep.
16,
1779,
Ma y
i3>
1782,
Nov
21,
had power of
axe
life
and death.
When
in
the
week or
Two men
thereabouts, and on
public flocks
and
either
many
upon
it
7.
57.
bailiff
who
fufFered
by
The
it.
if the
before his face the goods were fo placed, that they might be noted by
If
9.
fpace of one
fet in
(as
The method
is
Debtors
1776, Jan.
all
pafTengers.
was a horfe, an ox, or cow, &c. that was taken with the prifoner,
it
was
with him to the place of execution, and fattened by a cord to the pin that flayed the block, fo that
when
the.
whipping the bead, the pin was plucked out, and execution done.
But
if
there was no beafl in the felon's cafe, then the bailiff, or his fervant, cut the rope.
its
Giblet-La<w*
DURHAM.
DURHAM.
Northern Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
now Thomas
Bainbr'dge Watfon,
DURHAM.
at
Bungey,
bifliop
Durhai
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
10
16
Quarter Seflions, o
*3
Felons, at Aflize,
10
Tranfports, about
10
o each.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Garnifh,
[See Remarks.
Felons,
Debtors,
0:4:6.
0:1:0.
Felons,
Number,
Debtors.
Felons &c,
21.
1776,
9>
2 -
'43
CHAPLAIN,
Salary,
4-
SURGEON,
THE
Sir
Mr.
none
high gaol
Hedworth
debtors
is
14,
22. Deferter 1.
20,
19.
is
Bainbridge.
he make a
bill.
By
fVilliamfon,
is
perpetual
The
IherifF.
court
for
mafter's-fide
only 24 feet by 10: they are permitted fometimes to walk on the leads.
in
upper
the
they
hall
might
and
be
rooms.
other
feveral
in
Their rooms
prevent
fliould
be ceiled,
orders,
and
at other
that
places.
way:
Common-fide
damp
No
fewers:
lain
there
about 70
at
to
at chapel,
There
their
infectious
dis-
much
here
free
wards, the
go out of
they told
to
have no court;
debtors
thefe,
many months.
lime-whited,
unhealthy rooms
Sec.
25,
Duty,
Salary,
Felons
Debtors.
oa.
37,
me
my
vifits, I
is
a double
unlefs to
for
chapel,
which
on a Sunday when
is
the
was
pump, which
&c. had
raifes
water
feet.
Felons
Remarks.
DURHAM.
Durham
0
Northern Circuit.
Felons have no court; but they have a day-room and two fmall rooms for an inThe men are P uC at n 'g ht mto dungeons: one 7 feet fquare for three
firmar y-
G aolT
faw
fituation they
floor almoft
of
flairs
Long
to dud.
room
a feparate
little
window.
chained to the
In this
In that
floor.
fickly.
There
and up
tranfports,
worn
zs.
by
164. feet
moft of them
fix
after
efcape:
is
or two.
whom
and
perhaps this
may
time be
in
loft, as
one of
bifhop Crewe, and another of bifhop Wood; from which, prifoners had received no
fome years
benefit for
paft.
filed bills in
chancery
and recovered thefe legacies, by which feveral debtors have been difcharged.
a crown a week
hung
not
foners
fide of the
The
up.
At
woman
paid to a
is
gateway.
claufes
feveral of
for
The
againfl
my
for
are
hung up.
Gaol
thirteen
and
lumber.
adjacent, of
It
little
aft
fpirituous
vifits
Half
expence, and
it
this for
little
22 yards by 16.
might be done with
meafures about
a court: as
it
was there in January 1776, I had the mortification to hear that the
furgeon, who was uncle to the gaoler, had obtained from the bifhop, in October
but when
preceding, a leafe of
He
had
it
for
on
it.
TABLE OF FEES
Rules and Orders
at their
faid
eftablifhed
Gaol and
by
the-
and
Durham and
^
.
For an
entire
in
Sadbergt
&c.
common chamber,
-
S:
D.
called the
-036
-020
-
for each
For
Northern Circuit.
For lodging with a bed- fellow
For lodging
in a
in every
week
in the
bed
fingle
be
Item
Durham
County
Gaoi>.
findeth
made
own bedding
his
and
bedcloaths
and admitting
fheets
For Diet of
for
we'
of a bed-fellow
fhall
M.
in that
Prifoners.
every week
o-
of Prifoners.
Item For the difcharge of every prifoner upon procefs or order from the court of chancery
For the
firft
liberate
yeoman
firft!
Fees to the
Item For attendance of every prifoner that goeth abroad into the town every time
Z.
difcharge only
Tho Burdus
Hen!
Jo s Morland
Giles
Fo/ler,
Mayor
Raine
Mic Brabin
We
Sir
Bam.
Hale
oht
of the
of Affize for the Northern Circuit have reviewed the above Table of Fees and have
thought
week for lodging with a bedfellow in any other
chamber except the common chamber to be paid by each prifoner, and inftead thereof do appoint
Juftices
fit
one
ftlilling
and
fix
is
Dated
the
F Page.
B-
Hale,
COUNTY
NEWCASTLE
422
T Y N E.
upon
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
Eride-
WLL
'
Was
a hill,
DURHAM,
at
built, as
rooms
the
Northern Circuit.
are
No
airy.
court
now
pump
Being on the
the late keeper IVatfon had a garden which he let for a guinea a year.
and put
woman
in a
to take
widow
is
work, and
their
my
At
ing houfes.
Claufes
he
is
lived at
his
in
vifit
Salary,
,
.9:2:0
^30, and
14,
Oct. 25,
7.
6.
NEWCASTLE
NEWCASTLE TOWN
GAOLER,
John
CASTLE.
upon
up.
T Y N
E.
COUNTY GAOL.
and
Crofter,
Salary,
Fees,
Debtors,
0
o
Felons,
hung
6, Prifoners 5.
1775, Jan,
1776,
He
keeper.
New-
of
fide
in the prifon
10
8.
14
4.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, two pence a day, on petition.
Felons,
Garnilh,
cancelled.
Number,
l
775> J an
1776,
CHAPLAINS,
Duty,
6,
2.
8,
12,
4.
15,
14.
3.
month
SURGEON,
Salary,
7
Felons &c.
13,
4.
12,
1.
Rev. Mr. Brunton, now Mr. Brown, and Rev. Mr. Brand.
on Sunday none.; but on Wednefday and Friday prayers:
once a month a fermon.
Salary,
Debtors.
Felons ice.
Debtors.
and
each.
Mr.
The
Bacon,
now Mr.
none: he makes a
^10
Maxfield.
bill.
NEWCASTLE.
NEWCASTLE
Northern Circuit.
TYNE.
upon
423
NEWCASTLE.
IN
Newgate, which
this
is
and candles
They
England.
and
debtors
coverlet:
plenty:
in
(lairs,
felons
thus
are
There
amount
articles,
is
to
all
40
12
the
be more
falutary.
No
and
in
is
on one
of
fide
wards (as
tiie
if
The
This
files, See.
exadt
his
fide.
town,
this
is
debtors beds
hofpitals)
at
it
would
For fome
the corporation
paid
once a year.
But
was dead.
vifits
his fuccelTor
ere&ed
by 34.
feet
little
diftance
hung up.
from the
felons
window,
to
prevent
the
Rates
Gaol
called
Copy of
Majefty's
General Quarter
1730.
is
Crqfier
palifaded wall
one
two
truft.
and felons
An
Gaol delivery
is
38
is
The
it.
fome
in
This
Part of
rules.
in the prifon-liberty.
is
little
in
The fums
8 per annum.
the gaol, at
prifons
neceflaries.
London
called in
few other
in
fuch
the rooms
all
accommodated
mops, and
The
ftreets
airy.:
&c.
allow brooms,
alfo
and
Newgate
Seffions held at
And approved
faid Majefty's
of at
within
this
Town
of
Neivcaflle
the
Gaoler or Keeper of
upon
Tyne
the
fettled
Aflize
to
an Aft of Parliament
pay
to the
keeper at his
at, the
two of
his
{-<uizj,
k
-030
jr.
firft
coming
in
d.
the
faid
town of
Ne-ivcaftle
the faid keeper upon his difcharge from the faid procefs or procefl'es only
Every prifoner charged upon any execution or executions out of the court of confcience
held within the faid town mall pay to the faid keeper upon his difcharge from the
faid execution oa executions
lhall
068
020
faid
-
0134
Every
Remarks.-
NEWCASTLE
424
castle
TYNE.
upon
Northern Circuit.
y perfon appearing upon a recognizance at the affizes and afterwards tried upon any
indidment or indidments whatfoever and fhall be committed thereon mall pay
to
the faid keeper upon his difcharge
Every prifoner Ihall pay to the turnkey of the faid gaol or prifon upon his difcharge
Confirmed by us
John
Recorder.
Jfaacfon,
Richard Ridley,
Nathanael
We do
approve of
'r
Stephen
'"y
Coulfo
r
J
Francis Page
There
this
Clayton.
"":'7^']Aldermen,
J
J?
o *'ja
Francis
Rudjton,
'Tower
:
is
alfo
at
John Fortescue a
NEWCASTLE,
in
no water.
Judges.
Salary,
Fees, is.
I 775>
i
J an *
8, Prifoners 2.
15,
77 6,
1.
firft
1.
2.
called the
committed
to the
Salary,
Tower
Tallow-House: two
for
15.
rooms, one
no court:
no water:
Fees, is.
in the Clofe
for a
if
not
1.
2.
Bridewell.
added, confifling of
He
mace.
at
not
men; another
for
water
is
*.
whom
always found
hung up.
1
775, Jan.
1776,
*
for
The
employed.
room
fix
Where
8, Prifoners
, 15,
1.
5.
mould be water
laid
in to
P ri ^oners
-
7-
5.
each ward, as
have feen
NORTHUMBERLAND,
NORTHUMBERLAND.
Northern Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
at
MORPETH.
Mo
John Kent.
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
0:12:6*.
1
3:0,
Felons,
Licence,
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none
Felons,
Garn'rih,
i77 6 >
CHAPLAIN,
8.
1779, July
1,
10,
6.
e>
7-
15,
4-
6>
U-
SURGEON,
for
condemned
Mr. Leidman.
none he makes
Salary,
felons
lately raifed to
Only one
bill.
court,
which
is
Of
occupied by the
for debtors.
tranfportation
(14
30.
debtors have fix fizeable rooms which are out of repair, and a free ward
8,
j IO > and
Salary,
gaoler.
once a month.
Duty,
THE
juftices.
Felons &c.
Debtors.
on applying to
4.
Number,
J
btit
but
faid,
at
my
in the tower.
were
c aft
vifit in
for
1779,
by 6
feet 2 inches
inches
by
9.
In
feet
9), the
the latter
were three
intending
is a day-room
window only 18
(1776) who, upon fufpicion of
the
king's allowance
Gaol delivery
veyed;
is
once a year.
women
6 fteps
in the old
The
caftle,
which having no
roof, in
a dirty
a wet feafon
The
Re
NORTHUMBERLAND.
426
Morpeth
County
Gaol.
The county
for
The
as
Northern Circuit.
acquitted prifoners, if poor
or two courts
Table
of Fees &c.
hung
The
up.
for
acl:
in
The
no bath.
is
and allowed
Settled
by the Judices
tc
Commitment
Every debtor
at
his Majefty's
Gaol
at Market h-
Hexham 1759.
Fees.
Every
felon
8.
---------------Chamber-Rents.
To
room
the
pay weekly
to himfelf, to
To
room
the
called Burton's
But
if
To
the
to
pay
To
room
the
called
the fencing
the
is
room
little
to pay
room
and
There
called
it
will
have
it
to himfelf he
is
to
D.
026
016
010
020
016&
o
S.
called
is
Mr.
Johnfon's
room
Every
debtcr
upon
the turnkey
Every felon on
room
pay
own bedding,
a large
Mrs. Carr's room the gaoler finding beds and linen each perfon
floor,
only
that prifoners
pay nothing
for,
-----------
To
room with
weekly
To
have
pay weekly
To
will
To
one perfon
only,
little
pay weekly
To
and if
it
pay weekly
is
in
his difcharge to
pay
to the gaoler
his difcharge
the turnkey
John Orde
Step.
W*,
Waifon
Ward.
COUNTY
BERWICK
TWEED.
upon
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
A work-room
high.
and appear
(72
which
feet)
no water
He
fees.
1,
Prifoners 3.
6.
^30
1779, July
8.
BERWICK
BERWICK* TOWN
No
Claufes againfl
Fees,3
Debtors, Freemen,
TWEED.
upon
COUNTY GAOL.
and
Salary,
Hill.
Berwick.
6-
Felons,
Debtors, not
Licence,
women from
no
falary,
9, Prifoners 2.
i6}
1776,
hung up.
1775, Jan.
GAOLER,
His
no fewer.
week
millings a
now
Beer,
free,
~)
> none.
J
0:2:6.
none.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, Freemen, four pence a day, and
Ditto,
not free, 7.
-
0:1:4.
Number,
Debtors.
Felons &c.
1776, Jan.
17,
5,
2.
1779, J ul y
2>
2,
o.
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
coals.
ir
'
Felons,
Garnilh,
Bridewell.
dirty
a warehoufe and
is
MORPETH.
at
men on
for
The
larger.
is
427
Impreffed
Men
8.
none.
none
none of the
it
falls in
its
circuits,
fituation
my
gives
is
it
journies
the kingdom.
3I2
BERWICK.
CUMBERLAND.
BERWICK.
428
Remarks.
THIS
gaol
a fine fteeple
floor are
is
damp, and
The
in
and the
hung up.
The
are
Northern Circuit.
me
gaoler told
ad
no water
no
Claufes
fewer.
for
not
one >
at nine,
and eight.
CUMBERLAND.
COUNTY GAOL
Carlisle.
GAOLER,
Brathwaite Atkinfon,
Salary,
Fees,
Debtors, >
CARLISLE.
at
now Thomas
Dixon.
Felons,
'
Q%
Tranfports,
1 each
Licence,
Beer.
to
Whitehaven.
The
tap
let.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, on applying to the juftices fome obtain a fhilling a week,
fome nine pence.
Felons, nine pence a
Number,
Debtors.
49,
1776, Jan.
20,
Sep.
19,
CHAPLAIN,
1779,
29,
7.
1782, Sep.
15,
2.
Rev. Mr.
20.
is
a (hilling after,
Mr.
10,
32,
1,
30,
Felons &c.
1.
firft
Sunday
in the
as
12*..
Lofb.
:
court fpacious,
built,
month, fermon,.
for attendance.
85 yards by 36:
it
was common to
all
appears
by the
date,
in
1734.
Five
bill.
prifoners; but
a chapel,
French prifrs
9.
Farijh,
THE
Debtors.
May
4-
Salary,
Salary,
a part
before conviction
Felons &c.
Duty,
SURGEON,
Remarks.
week
0:1:0.
Garnifh,
rooms
now
In the court
is
for mafter's-fide
debtors
CUMBERLAND.
Northern Circuit.
and
as
night-room
together in
feem
is
only 11 feet by 9
Two
it.
at
my
one of
to
vifits,
in
alfo
and four women lodged together. In the court, near the pump, there
nuifance of a dunghill, which feems to have been accumulating
No
rooms
hung up.
AcT: for
for three
Gaol delivery
years.
common-fide debtors.
for
no table figned
themfelves
of
by the magistrates
fuch
It
Few
year.
once
is
gaols
common
for a year
infirmary
men
or two.
no bath.
many convenient
fo
becaufe there
here,
Some
to particularize
three
the too
have
more remarkable
the
is
tap rooms,
as
found
is
gaolers avail
off
many
deter
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
Is
Up
many
that
for
and
it
fo
No
allowance
no
1
the
ftraw.
779,
and a
clofet called
is
county bridewell.
A room
his freehold.
another room
flairs
COCKERMOUTH.
at
county gaol
fuppofe
this
is
May
10,
No
the reafon
no
fees.
prifoners.
Scotch-gate.
It
made more
but
it
No
convenient.
feet fquarej
The window 4
toll
upon
that
feet
by
i~.
commodity,
traveller
from
his
procuring
friends
it.
in
this
prifon, where
there
is
no
provifion,
Carlisle
qI
WESTMORLAND.
43
Carlisle.
3.
r.
WHITEHAVEN Town
flairs;
and a dungeon
be (hipped.
Gaol,
is
in
Northern Circuit.
Two rooms up
to
No
prifoners.
WESTMORLAND.
COUNTY GAOL
Appleby.
GAOLER,
Benjamin
Salary,
APPLEBY.
Ainjley.
(See Remarks.)
10.
Fees,
at
Debtors, \
.
:
0
8*
Felons,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons,
Garnifh,
Number,
1774, Mar. 24,
1776, Jan. 22,
Se P- *9>
o.
Dekors.
Debtors.
Felons &c.
7,
4.
1779,
9,
8,
2.
3,
o.
1782, Sep. 2,
8,
o.
3>
3-
May
Felons fcc.
CHAPLAIN, none.
SURGEON,
THIS
none.
At page
is
21,
a
I
falary.
man
Happily
The
for the
earl
of Thanet
is
complained of
this
prifon being
within reach
of floods;
but
in
January 1776, there was a new building on the higheft part of the yard.
It confifls
of four vaulted wards for felons, 14^ feet by 13 ; a window in each, but no chimney
and over them three good rooms with chimneys, for debtors.
Gaol
WESTMORLAND,
Northern Circuit,
Gaol
year.
deliver)' once a
No
claufes
Neither the
table of fees.
againft
liquors,
fpirituous
43*
ad
at
preferving.the
for
my
vifit,
laft
Appleby.
were
hung up.
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS;
APPLEBY.
no chimney
to floods.
by the
Built, as appears
:
No allowance.
Keeper's falary
KENDAL.
about 2
rooms 11
no
May
o.
1779,
9,
Prifoners o.
o.
1782, Sep. 2,
r.
year.
falary,
No
^6:10:0,
fees.
The
clofe
8-1:
Brii>e-
fubjed
wells.
which he
window
The
keeper
for
twenty
lets
Sep. 18,
o,
May
11,
o.
1782, Sep.
3,
1.
1779,
little
hither,
and
1776, Jan.
and a
by
feet
fees.
has a garden
allows
19,.
feet fquare
fhillings a
Two
date, 1659.
Deferter
KENDAL TOWN
1.
GAOL.
Only two vaulted dungeons under the chapel, called black holes: 15 fteps under
feet by 11, and 7-I high).
In one of them was a bedftead with ftraw
on it. No court: no water. Allowance, fix-pence a day. The two town fergeants
keep the prifon by turns j a week each *.
ground (12
*
It
1779.
May
11,
3,
No
prifoners.
here take the liberty to extol the ceconomy, induftry and cleanlinefs of the Kendal work-houfe.
for
the
LANCASHIRE,
LANCASHIRE.
Northern Circuit.
GAOLER,
John Dane,
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
Higgin.
o.
13
4.
Felons,
Tranfports,^
now John
each.
(See Remarks.)
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors,
")
....
0:7:2.
0:2:6.
Felons
Number,
Debtors,
Garnifli,
nC
Felons
74,
13.
1779,
May
11,
72,
48,
17.
1782, Sep.
3,
57,
17.
1776, Sep.
CHAPLAIN,
17,
Sunday twice
Salai7>
5-
THE
now 10
Salary,
caftle-yard
is
10
o.
and
fpacious,
bowling-green.
enclofed
Spicer.
Duty,
SURGEON,
19.
32,
Rev. Mr.
is
Mafter's-fide
faid
is
with
fupplied
to
water.
Part of
have
been
ufed as
fuch
in
is
an
One
of
it
debtors
the
time
ordinary room.
crown and
One
The
(hire halls.
latter
is
ufed as a chapel *.
century, vaft
is
room-, becaufe,
is
it
faid,
fo
Petty offenders are fometimes fent hither, becaufe the bridewells are diftant.
is a
Men
Women
*
room
large
Over
for
and women
fleep
in
their
day-room
righteoufnefi as
at the
(hire- hall is
this
text;
"
There
felons.
common,
down
as waters,
and
a migkiy Jlream."
with
LANCASHIRE.
Northern Circuit.
with them.
Men
low dungeon,
have for their night-rooms two vaulted cells. One of them, the
10 fteps under ground *, 21 feet by 9, extremely clofe, dark, and
very hot even in winter. Their other cell, the high dungeon (20 feet
is
unwholefome
by 11
2 inches
feet 2,)
clofe
is
and
offenfive,
and has an
iron-latticed door.
No
recovered.
infirmary
When
a week.
us. 6d.
for
relief
their
Mr.
the recorder,
Fenton,
no bath.
by
from
thence brought hither, the gaoler has a milling a mile conduct-money for each.
If the large ftable
which
is
much
not
Mr.
Fenton's
lome of
made
about 2
which
(e
feet
upper
my
of the fix
cells
laft vifit
rally
wanted
The
act
The
1776
10
him,
good
gaol.
in
my
at
vifit in
by 6
feet
fitted
painted on a board,
is
new
Here was
gaols.
This
gaol
is
up
and
(10
cells
for unruly
mifbehaved
feet
regularly white-wafhed,
The gaoler
is
is
behave well."
the
claufes
is
.4,
not authentick
Much
good,
hope,
may be
improvement of
The
a debtor
The
Sc
different purpofe
to
is
down 20
which
it
is
fteps,
now
applied,
is
s.
D.
10
080
024
now
('viz.)
common
of
their prifons.
lift
Fees taken by
On
clean.
againfl fpirituous
lives diftant.
making by
1779,
feet 8 inches,
for
donations,
When
From
is
I will
would be
juftly paid
liquors,
in
ftable,
this infcription
debtors,
At
in the
One
tower.
is
thefe improvements.
know of
the
of prifoners.
benefit
of taps
in gaols.
When
LANCASHIRE.
434
LancasTtR
Cast li.
When
a debtor
is
When
&
&
for all
and 2 s.
&
crown prifoners
Lately altered to
Fees
&
Northern Circuit.
-048
-058
0180
-0134
At
there
my
is
vlfit
Charity Legacies
From Mrs.
Lift articles
to the
Debtor Prifoners
m Laneajler
Sand
called
by the
late
belonging
to Peter
this
St.
firft
eftate in
Th-mat\ day
Skermifdak
pound
money
-60*
fifteen millings
left for
-1150
(So
-20c
in the lift.)
feflions
at Laneajler in
faid
Laneajler, the 15th day of July in the feventeenth year of king George the third's reign
to this court
his cuftody,
'(except
her or themfelves,
It is
the contiary.
And
is
fhall
names out of
appears
make
common
his
faid caftle,
abfent him
way milbehave,
fnall
or lhall in any
further ordered,
it
it
county palatine of
whereas,
Roman
caftle
name
800
Abigail Righj's executors paid by Doctor Fenton and the mayor of Laneajler every
their
of Auguft
From Mrs.
firft
of the faid Peter Latham or their order, paid by Mr. Ratcliffe of Ormjkirk
truftees
attorney at law
by the
county out of an
Latham deceafed;
-300
the
By
Caftle 1770.
Henrietta Rigbys executors to twelve of the moft neceifitous and well behaved prj-
faid keeper
againft
(hall
immediately
ftrike his
her or
books, and to forbear to pay fuch prifoner or prifoners any more money
until
further order.
Ken yon.
N.
B. Whereas
this is therefore
to
many of
the
execution,
COUNTY
LANCASHIRE.
Northern Circuit.
435
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
PRESTON.
floor
is
This prifon, a
a paffage, in
diftant
little
Over
to fleep in;
friary.
On
the ground-
by 6),
are a large work-room for
thefe
men, and a lefs for women. The prifon out of repair: but at my
work-rooms were clean, and the prifoners were fpinning worfted.
vifit in
1779, the
court in front
(of which the prifoners have no ufe) and a liable; and a fpacious garden backwards
No
Thefe
the
prifoners
at
lift
fible
to prifoners
to
The
Lancafter Caftle.
/80
from others,
^50
obliged to pay
mented
bath.
no allowance.
no
To
who
18, debtors 4.
in
1782, to
died in 1780;
this
prifon in 1778,
but
now
8.
water accef-
the
keeper was
his falary
is
aug-
10 s. 6d.
19.
1776, Sep.
11.
16,
MANCHESTER.
May
12,
1782, Sep.
3,
'779*
112
Prifoners 17.
-
ImprefTed
5*
19.
apartments for
8 inches).
in
No
them.
for
of the tap.
table.
it
to his predeceflbr,
in lieu
ys.
keeper receives
feet
four
Women
No
curious.
fees,
and
The
liquors,
is
allowance.
now- raifed
of the tap.
hung
up.
The keeper
fpinning candle-wick
* In thefe
to .80 in lieu
at
and the
is
a chandler,
corporation prifoners,
who
in
is
now no
town -gaol.
a ftone
Bride-
LANCASHIRE.
43 5
Eride-
WELL
Northern Circuit.
and ye
vijited
me
16,
6.
1776, Sep.
15,
12.
by
Town Gaol.
which there
in
114.,
and
Sick,
in prifon 3
5, Prifoners 21.
1775,
LANCASTER
feet
not."
1774, Nov.
is
Aroomjuft finifhed
window and fire-place.
new
the
at
6.
15'
town-hall,
No prifoners.
1782, Sep. 3,
by 5
6-L feet
and 6
feet 9 inches,
feet
feet high.
Three
and
faid
been
ill
prifoners were
his
of
it
at
in
led
me to
The
was there
prifon
is
widow of
Allowance
in
common on
20
table.
falary,
vifits
vifits
12
and
6d.
no
o.
mod
hung up.
in
the unhealthy
dungeons
\vaSjio (which
is
now
ftill
Lyon: his
falary,
in ufe.
The
late
furgeon, Mr.
Shertcliffe,
whofe
falary
mentioned in
my
publication.
io.
The
By
/\s.
1779 and 1782, this gaol was much cleaner than at my former
the aft for preferving the health of prifoners hung up ; but
the court paved
my
At
caftle
12
Gaoler,
a year
year
J.
put in a deputy
The
laft
part debtors.
6.
another
ings,
is
each
by
What
one time.
There
night.
prifoners are
inches
1 1
No
memorial
in the gaol.
fons in cuftody.
f The Gentlemen of
done
this
me inprefenting me with
my
new
*774>
LANCASHIRE,
Northern Circuit.
437
LIVERPOOL
30,
1779,
Debtors
5,
Bridewell.
courts, &c.
men
Imprefled
Deferters
2.
2.
jr.
25.
19.
fix
Bhide-
are
the
9 inches high ; are furnifhed with bedfteads, blankets and coverlets ; but are too
clofe, having no window, only an aperture in the door about 9 inches fquare, and
They have
room
men's court
in the
In this court
receive difcipline.
At one end
ed a chair.
of
it
is
is
In this
an
lingular contrivance.
which was
health
of prifoners
prifon
is
women
in
picking oakum.
a few
I was glad to find this ufe of the bath has been difcontinued fince
The
fatten-
after
when
new and
all
at the extremity of
The
Hill
my
vifit in
continued.
1779.
This
is
the
But
hung
up.
Matron, 10.
Allowance, two-
Turnkey, 6
s.
firing.
1782, Sep.
WARRINGTON
5,
12.
in the
work-houfe yard
one about 9 feet fquare, with bedftead and draw ; the other about 9 feet by 5
no
Allowance for diet, the fame as the poor, who, by their appearance,
windows.
:
The
conftables
of the town
are
keepers.
* This poor-houfe
honour
to the
is
a large
new
building
No
prifoners.
gentlemen concerned.
CHESHIRE,
WELLS
CHESHIRE.
Chester Circuit.
GAOLER,
Thomas: he held
Faithfull
king's patentee, to
18:5:0
Salary,
of the
it
whom
he then paid
40
Nofuer the
a year.
(See Remarks.)
Fees
*
'
andi
Tranfports,
Is
Licence,
each,
for expences.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors,
Garnifh,
D&Mtti
Felons &c.
Debtors.
22,
24.
7,
12.
June 24,
1775, Feb. 1,
----- Nov. 25,
23,
12.
19,
4.
9,
15.
1782,
May24,
22,
5.
11,
6.
33,
15.
Salary,
30.
SURGEON,
THIS
Mr.
caftle
the
is
he makes a
clofe
it
to four
was
rooms
common
day-room,
for
felons,
No
with grates
in
room
and
in
a hall
is
there are
two
Down
18
debtors.
It is lately
divided,
fo very fmall,
deprive
felons.
air,
women
are
their
in
day-room, the
king's
together:
kitchen.
firft
mafter's-fide
demned room.
a year.
the debtors,
in
(improperly called their free ward, as they pay one (hilling a week
The
to debtors
bill.
up from
leading
1.
Williamfon.
none
Salary,
ftaircafes
Deferter
each);
Felons &c.
Duty,
is
0:3:6.
Debtors,
CHAPLAIN,
.fteps
P ounds of
Number,
Remarks.
1 r
Felons
is
dark paflage 24
window
feet
to
is
Under
quite ufelefs.
it,
is
by
fteps
the con-
21 fteps
from
the former
cellar;
by 9: the defcent
Near
On
one
fide
of
it
are fix
cells
CHESHIRE.
Chester Circuit.
cells (Jails)
door about
8 inches
They
four felons.
of them,
The
my
and
was
one
in
fituation
had
bole at Calcutta.
day-room
felons
when
439
is
They
not fecure.
the flight floor into the king's cellar below ; and through the decayed walls of that
The keeper, who is careful and humane, was not
they made their way down the hill.
blameable.
Of the
faw
in
five alfo in
whom I
The coils
debtors
1782.
The
county has
The
clofe a prifon.
The
lately built
But there
for a chapel.
is
and
prefent conjlable
is
up one room
fitted
Mr. Ferdinando
hung up.
He
London.
a furgeon in
Gillio
18
gaoler to pay rent .30 a year, and takes himfelf the falary of
obliges the
o, the gaoler
TABLE OF FEES
To be taken by the Conftable of the Caflle as the County Gaol fettled In the Quarter Seflions
15th July 1729 and afterwards confirmed by his Majefty's Chief Juftice of Chejler
at Nampi-ivicb
and
Juftices
of the
Peace
of a
in purfuance
late
Act for
Relief of
the
Debtors &c.
Commitment fee, for every prifoner
Chamber rent, prifoner finding his own bedding
" There
is
if
a Angularity in the
or his deputy,
at a ftone
week
-082
-010
cells,
per
**
the city
who
They
them
diftant
s.
D.
are releafed
from
which
the
is
by
capital
by the conftable
are delivered
at that ftone,
>
outward gate,
thence convey them to the place of execution, which they alfo have
Mr.
I have in three of my vifitsfeen the place of confinement for deferters
It is a
in this caftle,
bad unhealthy
cell
gaol fever; a room fhould be appropriated to the lick, for the furgeon told
there.
An
officer at Worcejlcr
here, three of
after they
came
to their quarters,
who knew
who
me he could
men for two
not attend
them
deferters lodged
Difcharging
Chester
Castle v
CHESHIRE.
....
440
Chester.
Castle.
Difchalging fee
f0
turnkey on difcharge
t ] ie
For
felon
s.
D.
010
006
010
010
050
006
"
week
For every
>
Chester Circuit.
J.Willes
Confirmed by
We
Signed by
List
of
all
Prifoners
five Juftices *
in money
to
beft
Examination
by
his will
for
the
of
to be diftributed at
of
poor
fix Ihillings
Chejler alderman
by his will 16th June 1603 left thirteen Ihillings and four pence
Michaelmas and Lady-day yearly for ever by the mayor to the prifoners in the caftle
The above
true Copies
The Tagg
Rules
1 ft.
Benefit
or bread.
Valentine Brougbton
by equal
given
upon the
within
All prifoners to
behave refpettfully
to keeper
whoever
CI. Pacis.
Chejler,
ftrike or affault
any
to
be puniftied by a
juftice at difcretion.
nor
No gaming
rooms from Lady-day
morning from
be out
2.
No
3.
curfmg or fwearing
to
Lady-day
Michaelmas
4.
at eight
to
longwithout
5.
Felons &c.
6.
Whereas
to
it is
to bring neceflaries,
being fearched
in ficknefs nor
prifoner to
to
at
Michaelmas
at fix
and from
Not
to ftay
&c.
go
None
go
foldiers
the
* The
table having
hung
againft a
damp
for air
pavement leading
&c
No
Lady- day
at eight.
leave, except
.7.
Michaelmas
to
in the
let
to
Lady-day
Friends or relations
in private.
in the hall
on guard.
his
own bedwithout
names
gaoler's confent.
8.
Prifoners
CHESHIRE.
Chester Circuit.
may bring
Prifoners
8.
(hilling at the
the gaoler
Upon non-payment
bed-pay
own
their
44<
may
Chester
Air
The
9.
At
We
faid
Juftices
We
do approve of
T CholmondeUy
F Poole
Cha Dukenfield
legible.
thefe rules
J WlLLES
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
Jessop.
MIDDLEWICH.
at
which they
it,
work-room
is
call a
a ftrong brick
fire-place
now
another brick
is
window
in each
own
trade
but
at
oakum
my two
wall, long
feat,
enough
little room
At one fide
for feveral to
Two
almoft a femicircle.
at the
of the
fit
on
of the four
found at
my
vifit in
1776
all
laft vifits
all
The
court
is
fomewhat enlarged from the keeper's garden, and flagged with broad ftones, which are
very convenient, not only for cleanlinefs &c. but particularly for drying the oakum.
The
partition
between
this
is
contrivance for keeping the court and houfe airy and healthy
court has been contracted by fome
appointed, Rev.
This
reft
fcale.s
but
is
Allowance to each,
buildings.
a judicious
I fince learn
fix
this
pounds of
Claufes againft
chaplain lately
hung up.
Mr. Leigh:
new
Keeper's falary,
falary,
20:
50.
No
fees.
Surgeon, Mr.
8,
my
lafl:
vifit,
Prifoners 3.
-
9.
and
5.
14.
juftices.
prifoners
The
prifon
and a child
died.
CHESTER]
BridevvtLL
'
442
CHESTER CITY
Chester.
GAOLER,
Samuel PFaterwoods,
Chester Circuit.
E,
COUNTY GAOL.
and
\o.
Salary,
Fees,
Debtors,
Felons,
Tranfports,
8:8.
6:6.
io
each.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons,
Garnifh,
Debtors.
Felons ice.
8,
10.
1775, Feb.
1,
6,
2.
25,
8,
2.
Nov.
CHAPLAIN,
Salary,
Au gMay
1779,
1782,
Price.
Felons &c.
1,
2.
2 7>
7>
5-
24,
5,
1.
(See Remarks.)
many
night-room (which
air,
Debtors.
5.
The
felons
day-room
is
is
fpacious
now by
convenient
for at
my
vifit in
found that the room was very injudicioufly, (not to fay cruelly) funk fome
In
feet*.
1782.)
(See Remarks.)
Salary,
May
^10.
SURGEON,
1779,
ten ounces in
Duty,
THIS
6.
Number,
Remarks.
1775
it is
a barrack-bedftead.
No
light,
but by two leaden pipes of about an inch diameter laid in from the gate-way.
The
prifoners in
Hairs, in a
is
common
in the keeper's
Mr.
Price
is
to debtors
and felons
No
bedding or
ftraw.
The
garden.
chaplain to the blue-coat fchool
hool.
and
* There feems to have been the fume negled here of a claufe in a late adl, that
which Would fcarcely have happened, had the act been hung up as therein directed.
is
chapel
and a foot-
bridge,
CHESHIRE.
Chester Circuit.
made
bridge,
fervice
Few
In
when
it is
performed
prevailed
No
infirmary
of
it
privilege.
in
ill
them
yet the furgeon had not, for three weeks, either feen
his afliftant.
A legacy
is,
prifoners in city or
November 1775,
that
443
of 1
late
13:4
himfelf, or fent
keeper mentioned).
is
no memorial
is
in the gaol.
TABLE
The
FEES
of
I will
RULES.
and
and almoft
in
but defire
my
reader
firft
refer to
to'
them.
THE
GAOLER'S
FEES.
Upon any
arreft for
the
mayor
to a
mifdemeanor
if
in a feather
bed
s.
D.
10
a freeman
for a
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
If any perfon attached by form of attachment out of the exchequer at Cbejler be brought to the
faid prifon the keeper's fee thereon
brought to the
For every
felon
To
it
No
chains
to
table
and there
is
is
now
built a
fpinning.
is
room
or two
Dov/n 10
fteps
are
two new
Keeper's falary, 4.
Here were
The employment
25 feet by 16^.
_/.
City Bridewell.
dungeons.
-----
The above
CHESTER
feveral
o.
leaden weights
the magiftrates
order,
or the
ring and
keeper finds
needful,
Chester.
CHESHIRE.
444
Chester
CiTY
'
Chester Circuit.
the weight.
The keeper
faid that
it
was extremely
to
difficult
make
prifoners behave
1775, Feb.
Nov.
o.
14,
12.
1776, Sep.
MACCLESFIELD
and
foreft
Prifoners 2.
1,
25,
Prison.
1782,
This prifon
May
24,
1.
Impreffed
3.
1.
is
the property of
Lord Cholmondeley. It has four rooms; and a dungeon down 7 fteps (11 feet by 9), rhe
window 6 inches fquare. The building is flight, and the whole of it ruinous. Keeper
is
No
falary: fees,
6 d. no
s.
table.
2.
MACCLESFIELD Town
Bridewell,
houfe.
obliged to confine
together in
room behind
a ruinous
is
The keeper
6.
1.
told
me
the keeper's
he was fbmetimes
it.
fees,
one
Ihilling.
No
NANTWICH
Prison,
Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank,
or three
rooms
the property of
Lord
the
for
manor
Cholmondeley.
or barony of
It confifts of
two
As
This prifon
for Debtors.
is
prifoners.
County of Chefer,
to
is
wit.
2.
A Table
County ;
Charles Mainwaring,
Made,
fettled
and allowed,
at
Bailiffs,
or
held by adjournment at the Cattle of Cbejier, in and for the faid County,
1.
George III. before Sir Thomas Brought on, Baronet, George Heron, John Townfiend,
in
Ojfley
Wright, Efquires
purfuance of an Aft
made
in
Samuel Alderfey,
the 3 2d year
of
. S.
o 10
D.
o
George II.
To
10/.
10
-0150
-150
-
For
-:
CHESHIRE.
Chester Circuit.
445
1
11
D.
6
iz
.
For a debt of
80/.
make
-oof
to be
Where
Where
Where
-22c
S.
the debt does not exceed 100/. for each day zs. and each night zs.
the debt does exceed 100/. and
not 200/. for each day 3/. and each night 3;.
is
the debt does exceed 200/. for each day \s. and each night 4/.
Nothing
to
be taken
for Attendance
unlefs the
offer
good Bail in
fx
hours, or
is
fa : Fi : ffa
<
0
0
10
Houfe expences
For
20/.
bailiffs
and
his
way
be conduced, in
on the road)
fo in
to
be allowed
proportion for a
lefs
time,
included.
under 20/.
make
-040
Travelling charges to
No
diftrefs,
if
two perfons
own
And
it
is
this
may
And
to the
them are to take any other or greater Fee or Reward than what
upon the Pains contained in the faid K8i.
that none of
By
end that no
Law,
is
may
they
above
Sheriff,
Under-
fet forth
and allowed,
the Court,
W. Widdem,
Clerk of the Peace for the faid County of Chefter.
NANTWICH
the county in 1782.
Town
Two
Gaol.
for the
no court
to
down
2 fteps
2),
built
by
prifoners, a
with a barrack-bedftead
For
keeper.
III.
2 inches by
Cap. xliii.
9.
"
to
" prevent
Nakt-
FLINTSHIRE.
44^
NantWICH
'
The
" veniently."
Only one
HAULTON
number of
Nov.
Castle Gaol.
Lord
No
23,
it
con-
dungeons.
in thefe
prifoners.
yard.
by the marks,
1782,
for a
undtrr ground,
inches high,
1 8.
Chester Circuit.
Cholmondeley
it
is
ftill
is
Two
1737,
it,
had
cellars
prifoners.
March
1777,
19,
No
prifoners.
FLINTSHIRE.
COUNTY GAOL at FLINT.
Flint,
GAOLER,
now James
John Williamsy
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
Felons,
Terry.
0:6:0.
0:3:6.
Licence,
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors,
Felons,
")
each weekly
and 6
Number,
1774, June 25,
1776, Sep. 13,
CHAPLAIN,
rooms.
weekly
Debtors.
1.
1,
o.
1782,
in
bread
May
24,
Felons &c.
1,
3-
-9,
3.
Wednefday and
gaol
money afterward
1 s.
( See Remarks.)
Felons &c.
20.
THIS
now
4,
Salary,
and tap-room.
money.
d.
Debtors.
Duty,
Mr.
Ingleby at
none
Salary,
Remarks.
6 d. in bread, and 6 d.
0:1:0.
Garnifh,
SURGEON,
1 s.
is
alfo
Holy welL
he makes a
a bridewell.
They have
alfo
Friday.
bill.
On
are,
up
flairs,
a court, backwards.
5
For
common ward
two dark
clofets,
FLINTSHIRE.
Chester Circuit.
ago,
when
rooms: they
the debtors
dungeon
447
by 4 with apertures
till a few
in
This
16 feet by 11.
is
is
8 fteps.
A court before it about 5 yards fquare water laid in When men are
women are put in the dark clofets. The claufes againft fpirituous liquors are
hung up. The act for preferving the health of prifoners not hung up no infirmary.
The debtors and felons not being fatisfied with the kind allowance from the county of
down
here,
is. 6 d.
in
bread and 6
pound of bread
Great
feffions
d. in
day to each.
at
Mold
conveyance thither
is
He
expence.
at the gaoler's
There
has noiv a
About
five
Upon
hung up
are
this occafion, as I
made fome
the gaol.
in
It
government of
man knew
probable the
fubjecl
is
infifted
this prifon,
Holywhich
TABLE OF
At
Flin/foire, to wit.
and Montgomery
the
1765
before the
FEES.
on 22d of Auguft 5thof our Sove-
at Flint
Ordered that
It is
do take no more than the Fees and Allowances hereafter mentioned which,
be fufficient and reafonable
his Majefty's other Juftice there afligned
&c.
(That
A Table
For
is
For the
ufe
to fay)
week then
is
ratified
Fees
own bedding
his
-026
-020
-010
-010
026
-010
County.
this
S.
D.
o
and confirmed by
John Morton'.
Rules
1.
All prifoners to
to
behave refpe&fully
or aftuult
any to
be punifhed by a
juftice at difcretion.
2.
No
curfing or
fwearing No gaming
Prifoners
Flint
Gaol.
FLINTSHIRE.
44?
Flint
3.
To ^
t0 Lacl y- da y at e 'S nt
Gaol
mas
4.
to
Lady-day
The
* et
at eight.
Friends or relations
long
5.
Chester Circuit.
to bring necefTaries,
beingfearched
for inftruments
if
No
7.
Prifoners
prifoner to
may
and mifdemeanors
in the
upper ward
except
to ftay
remove
bring their
own
room
without
own bed
his
them away.
as
is
gaoler's confent.
Upon non-payment
lhillings at
keep
lhall
required Not
may
the gaoler
who cannot
pay two
rent.
8.
That
9.
That no
the public-rooms
prifoners
lhall
or
prifoners.
inltruments
that
may conduce
to
their
efcape.
At
We whofe
Names
II.
1759.
are hereunto fubferibed his Majefty's Juftices of the Peace affembled in open Seflions
Gaol of
Flint,
Roger Mojlyn,
David Pennant,
Jb n Glynne,
Thomas Thomas.
Thomas Hughes,
William Wynne, Clerk of the Peace.
ANOTHER
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
BmdeWELL
'
Two
rooms
water: no employment:
hung up.
fees, 3s. 6 d.
Keeper's falary,
10 j
no
at
HANMER.
no chimneys
table.
in
them.
No
court: no
No
prifoners.
DENBIGHSHIRE.
DENBIGHSHIRE,
Chester Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
449*
RUTHIN.
at
Ruthin,
Jo/epb Stoddard.
10.
Salary,
0:6:0.
0:3:6.
Debtors,
Fees,
Felons,
Tranfports,
Licence,
none.
each to Chefter.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons,
1 s.
Felons,
Number,
8,
5.
2,
2.
2,
1.
8,
7.
Rev. Mr.
Duty,
Sunday.
Salary,
20.
SURGEON,
27 feet by
alfo
is
a county bridewell.
by
feet
and another
6-|
as
large for
two on each
fide
criminals
A window
is
now
open.
ward.
fender.
and
rooms
In each there
each 3 feet by
1,
for debtors
is
The
cells are
a bedftead with
two
but being
is
nf), and
his
Above
provifion.
no
free
pump with
excellent water,
a bathing-room, with a
only four
latter,
feet wide.
in
of a paflage but 3
found too
apartments.
7^
Pierce.
Mr. Nicholls.
now \2.
Salary,
cells
Felons &c.
Debtors.
Felons &c.
Debtors.
CHAPLAIN,
THIS
6 d. a week.
0:2:6.
0:1:0.
Debtors,
Garnifli,
in conftant
ufe.
Gentlemen
from men,
fo confiderate, will
as
windows of the
the debtors.
this
is
felons
This
day-room
gaol
fcarcely forget
county bridewell.
is
If a door-way was
the
women
made between
it
was
occupied
r EM arks;
DENBIGHSHIRE.
45
Ruthin
occupied
Ccujnty
prifoners not
of
feffions,
common
a fault too
hung up
late,
at
new
in
The ad
prifons.
Chester Circuit,
The
Wrexham.
20
as
of
Great
keeper of bride-
well.
TABLE OF
At
Denbigh/hire, to nuit.
Geoxge
5th
III
1765
Under- Sheriff of
FEES.
at
before John
Fees
fettled
and
the
this
A Table
this
County.
-026
.
For the
ufe
week
prifoner's difcharge
of Fees
is
_
-
ratified
own bedding
.
his
Fee on
S.
D.
-020
0.10
-010
026
-
and confirmed by
John Morton..
By
the
Court
OTHER.
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
BrideWELL$
*
WREXHAM.
This
is
is
it
now
prifon has
on
two dark
out of repair.
Up
No
liable;
The
by 7
a wall within
and begged to be
of the houfe.
rooms and
flairs
pump.
let
out for
are three
The
late
rooms
for thofe
keeper was a
who
can pay.
The
prifon
^8.
Fees
2.
1776, Sep.
i.
DENBIGH.
falary,
12,
No
court: no water:
24
feet
by 10,
o:
is
1.
no fewer.
Keeper's
Under the
ufed as a prifon.
diffracted
2 paupers.
man, 2 paupers.
MONTGOMERY-
MONTGOMERYSHIRE.
Chester Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
William Davies
MONTGOMERY.
at
Mo k t g o-
MERY
12
Salary,
Fees,
Felons,
Tranfports, about
Licence,
10
14
10
4.
o each.
none.
PRISONERS,
Allowance,
0:2:
Garnifh,
Felons &c.
Debtors.
Debtors.
4-
1779,
16,
4>
3-
2,
o.
it,
4.
Sunday.
Salary,
20.
gaol
Now
^7
is
10
all
clean.
vifit
firft
finely fituated
on
No
conveyed
up.
'1
now
Great
ufed.
expence.
Here
8 feet
7,
turned
is
are eight
rooms
for debtors,
and a condemned
fine
cell
for
off.
large brew-houfe
is
feffions
Aft
by
The
Court common.
day-room.
There might be
at the gaoler's
ground.
a rifing
x.
Now 3.
o each.
Impreffed
Duty,
Salary,
my
Felons &c.
3,
SURGEONS,
at
May
CHAPLAIN,
felons
6.
Number,
THIS
Now
Felons,
he gaol has been white-wafhed but once fince the aft paffed.
No
though
bath,
Debtors are fent from the county-court for fmall fums, and no term
is
gaoler faid,
is
their difcharge, as
11
6,
cofts^i
ii, exclusive
much
for
lefs
of the gaoler's
fixed for
One was
The
fee.
gaol.
The
table
of
COUNTY
Remarks.
ANGLESEY.
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
Bridewell.
Two
ky 13
rooms
feet
thatched houfe
in the keeper's
out of repair
not fecure.
13
his falary,
Circuit.
MONTGOMERY.
at
fteps
North Wales
is
damp dungeon
No
8 feet
13:4: no
inches
No
allow-
fees.
1775,
Nov.
29,
1779,
May
16,
1.
1782,
Sep.
26,
o.
Prifoner
13 feet by 9 feet
o.
ANGLESEY.
COUNTY GAOL
Beau-
GAOLER,
maris.
at
BEAUMARIS.
5 from
Salary,
Fees,
now
his
Widow.
the meriff.
Debtors,
~t
Felons,
Licence,
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance,
Debtors, none.
a milling loaf a
Felons',
Number,
Debtors.
Felons &c.
2,
o.
1779' J u] y 2 4>
4,
i-
7,
1.
1782,
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
Remarks.
May
26,
none.
none.
THIS
It
in
which there
is
a fmall
No water
liquors, nor
ad
as
/<: a year
}
*
of bridewell.
keeper
r
No
no
ftraw.
The
keeper's
table of fees.
window
is
pro-
The
gaoler has
CARNARVON-
North Wales
CARNARVONSHIRE.
Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
453
CARNARVON.
at
Carnar-
GAOLER,
Thomas Prichard.
Salary,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,
o
o
o
Felons,
von.
3:6
2:6
13
entrance.
difcharge.
4.
Licence,
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons,
Garnifh,
Number,
by
7,
week
7,
o.
*779> J ul y 2 4>
5>
SeP- 2 4>
3>
gaol,
none.
none.
which
a large
is
alfo
is
Two
rooms
for debtors,
all
of them very
and two
for
no fewer
Conway.
The
gaoler has
No
in
latter
lately ufed
by
ftrolling
is
one of the
no water.
week
dirty,
court, but
chapel, and
felons
nor the act for preferving the health of prifoners, are hung up.
at
Felons &c.
Debtors.
1.
players.
( See Remarks.)
2,
with no window
the gaol
each.
Felons &c.
Debtors.
ruinous condition.
down
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
THIS
4 d.
s.
a milling.
(what he
Great
He
feffion in
flops
Lent
from each
of weekly payments.
table of fees.
Among
the various
improvements that
are
making
in this
town,
may
it
not be hoped,
MERIONETHSHIRE.
Remarks.
MERIONETHSHIRE.
454
COUNTY GAOL
Dolce lly.
GAOLER,
North Wales
Circuit.
DOLGELLY.
at
Rice Edwards.
Salary,
$.
Fees,
Debtors, ^
Felons,
}C
<
Licence,
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
now 3 s.
Felons,
Number,
1,
1.
3,
2.
1782, Sep.
8,
Prayers on Friday.
Mr. Owen.
now 10.
Salary,
Lent
firft floor,
all clofe
in the court.
glazed, but
now have
rooms above
four
cafements.
hung
No
up.
The
for criminals.
hung up.
table of fees.
Aft
for pre-
Great
fcflion
at Bala.
2.
10.
Jones.
Salary,
SURGEON,
in
25,
Re v. Mr. John
Duty,
THIS
week
Felons &c.
CHAPLAIN,
Remarks.
Debtors.
was here
in
6,
September 1782.
COUNTY BRIDEWELLS.
Bride-
DOLGELLY. Two
the county gaoler.
BALA,
Two
fhillings
falary,
No
court: no water.
No
prifoners.
feet
fquare.
Keeper,
Salary, 6.
rooms joining to
week for each, paid
the town-hall,
11
to the keeper.
No
court:
Allowance, three
no water.
Keeper's
2.
1779,
Aug. 26,
No
prifoners.
CARDIGAN-
CARDIGANSHIRE,
Carmarthen Circuit.
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
at
455
CARDIGAN.
Cardioah
Charles 'Thomas.
Salary,
formerly 11,
Fees,
Debtors,^
now 10.
:
Felons,
4-
Licence,
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance,
Debtors, none.
two millings
Felons,
Number,
1774, Aug. 13,
i779> J une 4,
1782, Oct. 20,
CHAPLAIN,
Duty,
Salary,
SURGEON,
Salary,
THIS
was
firft
week.
Felons &c.
4,
O.
2,
o.
3,
1.
20.
Mr. Davies.
10.
gaol, which
there.
Debtors.
alfo
is
flight
building.
It
confifts
juft finilfred
by 13, and two over them. They were clofe glazed, but now every pane
There is a dungeon down 11 fteps. The rooms, and the court (35
air.
were very
dirty,
which
up.
of
No
is
when
is
no water.
is
broke for
feet
by 24),
Neither the
ac~b
or of fuel.
No
table
fees.
PEMBROKESHIRE.
Remarks;
PEMBROKESHIRE.
45 6
COUNTY GAOL
Haver-
GAOLER,
FOR DWEST.
Richard
Fees,
HAVERFORDWEST.
at
Griffith.
nowi6.
none,
Salary,
Carmarthen Circuit.
Debtors, i
Felons,
'J
4-
Tranfports
Licence,
none.
PRISONERS,
Debtors, certified by their parim, a penny a day.
Felons,
a penny a day.
Number,
Debtors .
4,
1.
1779, June
1,
2.
oa.
1782,
CHAPLAIN,
21,
o.
6,
Rev. Mr.
Jones,
Duty,
Salary,
20.
SURGEON,
THE
'
Phillips.
Salary,
Remarks.
Felons &c#
(See Remarks.)
dungeons
snd then
his life
in
one of
:
thefe, as I
Six rooms.
loft, firft
windows.
of them.
in either
No
fewers
no
The
court.
No
table of fees.
But
new gaol
and a kitchen
for debtors,
is
now
for felons,
Here
for
men ; and
The
five
cells
feet
by 6
feet
is
There
no infirmary or bath.
A pump
court.
is
h Jng
is
in gaols.
fpacious
Neither the
up.
Mr. Martha
Bowen declared
in
nds
btors,
faid
year 17 51,
for
the
invefted in
depofited
benefit
New
in her
of infolvent
CARMARTHENSHIRE.
Carmarthen Circuit.
The
truft
in
457
Charles Ayleway very wifely diftributes the intereft, in bread weekly, a fixpenny loaf
to
the poor
to
in
HaverF0RDWE,T
the
town.
HAVERFORDWEST
At
Town
and
County Gaol
which
is
No
court
no water.
alfo the
The
is
bridewell, a
1774,
Aug.
14,
779>
June
5,
1782,
oa.
Two
rooms below,
No
feet
by 13).
falary.
Prifoners o.
Debtor
-
21,
1.
i.
PEMBROKE
Town Gaol. Two rooms (24^ feet by 12) the lower one damp
and dirty j no fire-place: no court: no water: no fewer. (See French Prifoners, p. 188.)
No
Oft. 21,
1782,
prifoners.
CARMARTHENSHIRE.
COUNTY
GAOLER,
none.
Fees,
Debtors,.
Licence,
CASTLE.
John Williams.
Salary,
Tranfports,
CARMARTHEN
GAOL,
Carmar.
them.
13
4.
Felons,
13
4.
Petty Offenders,
0:3:4.
each.
Beer.
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none.
Felons,
a milling a week.
Number,
Debto.
Felons &c>
16,
10.
1779, June 4,
14,
8.
4,
7.
15,
3.
CHAPLAIN,
Duty,
Salary,
12
SURGEON,
Salary,
Mr.
12
Dekors>
Fe]ons
&c
Price.
20,
3N
CARMARTHEN
45?
THIS
Remarks.
gaol
is
alfo the
county bridewell.
are
but
it
A houfe
fpacious.
is
a fmall
but he
and an alarm-bell
No
of the felons.
be laid
in
from
itill
water
at
The
is
little
ufelefs
No
hung up.
To
court-
for mafter's-
it,
diftance,
rooms
has convenient
it
by ringing
keeper of bridewell.
One
window.
Water might
offenfive.
for
a week.
top
at
the well
a conduit
earth
in the court
fide debtors
ward
a free
yard
d.
table of fees.
J. Williams has
12
12:0
a year as
a mile round.
Two
of the offenders,
The
whom
faw
in
At two of my
vifits,
number of
here were a
CARMARTHEN
At
this
is
at tennis *.
alfo the
COUNTY-BOROUGH-GAOL.
To
the four
No
outfide.
my
firft vifit,
rooms of
young
whom
prifoners
as in the
this
court: no water.
committed
creature
floor.
At
another
who
me
At
lives diftant.
lherifFs,
vifit,
is
for
which they pay the gaoler a guinea each, and the fame on the appointment of every
fheriff*.
Food, &c. for the prifoners was put through an aperture at the bottom of the
tloor
&c.
and
of vermin.
hung up.
At my two
it
to fetch water,
laft vifits,
very dirty,
Felons &c.
Debtors.
Felons &c.
o,
1.
1779, June 4,
o,
1.
1776, Sep.
3,
1.
2,
1.
8,
Deferters
2.
RADNORSHIRE,
RADNORSHIRE,
COUNTY GAOL
GAOLER,
at
459
PRESTEIGN.
Salary,
io from
Fees,
Debtors,
the
Felons,
afterwards
ftieriff;
0:
:
10
o,
now 10.
8.
o.
each.
Beer.
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance,
Garnifh,
0:1:0.
Felons,
Number,
Debtors.
1779,
7>
2,
2.
3,
1.
9,
4.
gaol
of which (18
are
ftill
is
none.
is alfo
feet
The
No
ftraw.
bridewell
now taken
Down
room (11^
feet
is
all clote
glazed.
from
felons.
There
three fteps
wanted two rooms for criminals, an infirmary and bath, and cafements to the
has
none.
and a day-room.
never ufed.
Felons &c.
3.
garden
Debtors.
Ma y
4,
CHAPLAIN,
SURGEON,
THIS
Felons &c.
2l
hung up
no
table
of
fees.
The
gaoler
A day-labourer, who
had a wife and two fmall children, was confined here from the
s.
cofts, 6
s.
8 d.
gaoler's fee, 3
s.
4 d.
BRECON'S HI RE.
re
BRECONSHIRE.
460
COUNTY GAOL
Brecon.
GAOLER,
at
BRECON.
Salary,
31
Fees,
Debtors, 1
Felons,
Tranfports,
Licence,
Beer,
'
*'
each.
now no
Licence.
PRISONERS,
Allowance,
Felons,
Garnifh,
Number,
Debtors.
7,
3.
1776, Sep.
4,
1.
Re v. Mr. Hugh
Jones.
Salary,
10, now
THIS
Felons ice.
3,
3.
1,
2.
15.
Mr. Thomas
Salary,
alfo
9,
Debtor*.
1779, June 3,
1782, Oft. 18,
Duty,
SURGEON,
Remarks.
Felons &c.
CHAPLAIN,
6.
Williams.
Two
lodged together.
courts
common
At my
dark dungeon.
firft
vifit
Two gentlemen of the county, who were then in the gaol with
abufe.
No ftraw. No claufes of aft againft fpirituous liquors no
At my
vifit in
may
table of fees.
14), into
In
cells
cells,
1782
free
The
it
it
wards
was
:
finifhed.
day-room
There
for
are five
courts
by a
This new
gaol
paved with
flood, but
is
fick.
flag-ftones.
fome precautions
In another
For women
are properly
cells
it
rooms above
week.
d. a
1779, a new gaol and bridewell was building out of the town, near
which two
a bell over
then obferved that the fituation was too low, fo that fometimes
be expofed to floods.
for debtors,
j.
a feparate
chapel, with
The
water has
courts.
and
alfo,
made
for the
RULES
BRECONSHIRE.
RULES
BRECONSHIRE
the
for
461
Gaol.
Brecon^
County
CHAPLAIN'. DUTY.
To
To
To be
who
but in the
Gaol.
mean time
peace.
SURGEON
No prifoner
to apply to
two
juftices
of the
'%
DUTY.
from thence
as foon as
FEES.
No
garnifh to be allowed.
conveyed
to the Hulks
lioufes
per mile for their conveyance, and four pence per day for their maintenance.
GAOLER'S DUTY.
Not
to
be concerned
in fubfifting or felling
That he
cells
obliges the pri/oners to wafh their day-room, yards and cells once in every twenty-four hours, between
the hours of eight and ten in the morning in the fummer, and twice a
refufal to confine
To
them
out of their
cells at
week
in the winter,
and
in cafe
of
comply.
and nine
to let
them
eight of the clock in the morning in the winter, and fix in the fummer.
No
fix
of the clock
in the
fummer, and
ftranger whatever to be admitted into the cells, or fpeak with the pri/onert, but in the prefence of the
gaoler or turnkey.
The pump
in
each yard to be locked up, and a fmall ftone cittern under each
pump
No lights, candle, or
To wafh the felons
fire
to be admitted into
any
cell.
court.
No
No
Filth to be taken
No
No
edge
tool to
be
cells.
may
gaming whatever.
That
the gaoler fhall by order of the quarter feffions put the pri/oners charged with felony or other mifdemea-
nours to work.
That
the feveral denominations and fexes of pri/oners be kept feparate, and never to have communication.
Riot, drunkennefs, and obfeenity to be feverely punifhed, by order of any one juftice.
All family bufinefs to be done in that part of the building appropriated for the correction.
That
That
own apartments
clean.
the gaoler keeps the glafs windows, together with all fetters, locks,
and doors
in repair.
COUNTY
7
462
Bride-
In 1779, was difcontinued, and the prifoners fent to the old county gaol, but
WELL
'
new
the
27
feet
cells.
by 14), and
Two
rooms
pumps and
is
women,
work-room and
Salary,
three
10.
This
hung up.
1782, Oct. 18,
BRECON
now
confifls
Town
']\ feet
for
door opens into the chapel, where there are two divifions for
Keeper
of
for an infirmary.
baths.
thefe prifoners.
lodging-rooms
five cells or
in 1782
men, a work-room (about
It has for
One
prifoner.
fquare
no
fire-place
Sergeant at mace
repair.
no allowance
is
keeper.
It
no court:
Fees, 3
s.
6d.
table.
1776, Sep.
1779, June
9,
3,
No
prifoners.
GLAMORGANSHIRE.
COUNTY GAOL at CARDIFF.
Cardiff.
GAOLER,
Cobb-,
Salary,
Fees,
Debtors, >
:
Felons,
(See Remarks.)
'
each.
Tranfports,
Licence,
PRISONERS,
Allowance, Debtors, none but on application to the
ten pence halfpenny each
Felons,
Garnim,
Number,
1774, Aug. 19,
1776, Sep.
CHAPLAIN,
6.
Debtors.
Felons &c.
14,
2.
2,
2.
6,
Salary,
Salary,
J>
Debtors.
1779, June 8,
1-82, Oct. 23,
Felons &c.
3,
o.
16,
5.
Duty,
SURGEON,
juftices.
on Saturday.
Mr. Williams.
/io,
now/
* 20.
CARDIFF.
GLAMORGANSHIRE.
463
CARDIFF.
THE
new gaol
The rooms
between them.
on
At
a floor.
fifting
No
finilhed
is
is
and
confifts
for debtors
in the front
a court with water: then the gaoler's houfe, which has two
is
No
water
The
Above,
he might have the felons court as well as the debtors conftantly in view,
were made
may
in the
upper rooms
be dangerous to
always at Cowbridge.
Neither
ftreet
The
rooms
infirmary.
if
two windows
^40
Great
At my
vifit
the juftices
at
Glamorganjhire.
Rates he
ftiall
in
1779
my
laft vifit
A Table
there was
of Fees and
no
fees
figned only by
table.
Chamber. Rent
to
Government of the
made and provided.
his
made
in
the gaoler or turnkey at the receiving each prifoner into his cuftody, and
To
the gaoler
the
To
alfo
impofe on each Prifoner that makes ufe of the Gaoler's Bed and Bedding, and Directions for
difcharged
is
which
(hall
D.
s.
be
For the lodging of each prifoner in either of the fore-ftreet chambers (the largeft of which
ftiall contain no more than three beds and the other two beds) fuch prifoner finding his
in either
of the
fore-ftreet
finds
fuch prifoner with a fufticient feather bed, bolder and bed cloaths, three pence half-
per night
in
fit,
any prifoner
(hall
in the gaol,
and bed
cloaths,
the prifoners in his cuftody fhall be at liberty to fend out of the gaol for what viduals and drink
all
they think
That
the gaoler finds fuch prifoner with a fufticient feather bed, bolfter
rooms
when
3i
gratis
in his cuftody to
ftiall
not
if the prifoners or
out of choice deal with fuch gaoler for their provifion or other thing, that then fuch gaoler fhall fupply
A late
gaoler informed
me,
that an txebejuer debtor confined ten years for feven pounds, died in the gaol juft before I
was there.
That
Remarks.
GLAMORGANSHIRE.
464
Cardiff
County
Gaol.
That
"
ot
if
to arife
he beds or bed cloaths or the goodnefs and price of the provifions the gaoler
(hall find
that then fuch difference (hall be fubmitted to the arbitration of the treafurer of the faid county for the time
who
being,
is
we
as far as
can,
empowered,
to fettle
fuch relief therein as fhall be reafonable and juft to the party grieved, and if
may
fhall think
treafurer fhall
make
it fhall
General Quarter
Seffions
faid county.
In order
as they fhall
take, or fuch beds, bed cloaths, meat and drink as fuch gaoler fhall find them with at the prices and in
We
aforefaid,
month
together, liberty to turn them out of their faid rooms and chambers into the
have
their neglect
fully
gaoler.
Mich 1
Michaelmas Quarter
Seffions,
"
1739.
Wm
Richards,
of
room towards
in the
The
late
up.
No
the ftreet,
Keeper's falary,
5 apertures
25
12
1779, June
SWANSEY
for felons
Gaol.
8,
Debtor
Two
s.
8 d.
know
not
how
my journies,
I have
no
ill
a-
of
Court not
it.
hung
table.
2.
2.
One room
built
1.
all
two rooms
i,
Town Gaol.
made
CARDIFF Town
is
Fees, 6
o.
his
no employment.
Roger Powell,
COWBRIDGE.
at
now feldom
many had
allowance
Morgan,
In them provifion
feet fquare.
air
room.
common rooms,
fhall
Copy."
COUNTY BRIDEWELL
BrideWILI"
manner
June
7,
No
prifoners.
all
making
In
known
myfelf in
!)
robbers.
becaufe foreigners
In this country generally travel in terror, and often give difmal accounts of the dangers they, have
encountered.
HULKS
HULKS.
HULKS
Jn my
firft
convinced of the
as to
it
attract
faults
to
March
1778, out of
26,
The
had obferved.
Jujlicia,
to hard
committed
THAMES.
the
on
when
effects of thefe
became
ftill
more
fo alarming,
firft
fix
It is
give an
was
can
Parliamentary Inquiry as to the health of the prifoners, and the obligations the public
man,
this occafion,
and particularly
to
its
chair-
At my vifit, Nov. 16, 1779, there were at Woolwich, for the reception of convicts,
an old Indiaman, called the Jujlicia ; and a frigate, the Cenfor.
In the former were
two hundred and
was
patients.
by
fifty- fix
Another,
and
firft
is
in
the latter,
That which
fifty.
was empty:
in this,
the furgeon, and continued three days, before they were fent either to the hulks, or
(as at
my
former
fo healthy
Jujlicia
yet,
portion of this
fufpicion
vifits)
company was
(hip's
that fomething
and found
proper that
that they
a table
was wrong.
I
found the Cenjor, below
on carefully viewing the convicts, they had not
as
fent
I
to the
examined
hofpital.
all
and a
much
greater pro-
This created
their provifions,
on board the
as
Jujlicia.
It
in
me
bedding, &c.
would be highly
fcales,
weights,
t See
% Purfers weights are
By
a
the
ad
to
good regulation
knowu on board
LXXIV.
p.
1418.
(hips to
IX.
in
proportion.
twenty-
Hulks.
HULKS.
4 66
HtfLKSi
but
twenty-five cradles,
Plymouth, where
were
The
off.
It is to
Of
the few
royal
the
who were
hofpitals
very
fick,
Haftar and
at
cleanlinefs
many
would
cafes
them clothed
brown uniform.
in
little,
work
in
moft of
Yet
was too
fifty at
their bread
of beer.
At my
Of
four.
Dec. 27, 1782, the Cenfor and the Reception were laid up. There were
one hundred and eighty convi&s, and in the hofpital fhip twenty-
vifit,
on board the
Jujlicia
thefe,
on fbore, and
ing, &c.
thirty- fix
were heaving
removing
in
of the
mould be
coiwifts,
bed
to each
Oct. 19,
plank-
The
hofpital
ballaft,
the lighters.
ballaft in
and that
fcales
fix
men
wi(h
it
now
is
ylb.
There
there were on board the Jujlicia one hundred and feventy-two, and
1783-f-,
The men
in the Jujlicia
doubt
not was in a great meafure owing to their being employed, and alfo reftrained from fpi-
Of
criminals
is
is utterly dejlrutlive
Breakfaft.
Every day
Dinner.
Sunday.
me/s
is
fo
(hews
many
to morals.
for fix
fait
Six pounds of
made
Two
Sunday,
this
Each
Supper.
late,
five quarts
five quarts
of beer.
of beer.
made
of foup.
$
t The
Cenfir had
A pint of
one hundred and thirty feven convifts for our fettlements ; many of
1 was perfuaded would die in the paffage.
method with
their
convids
for India.
It is,
many of
whom
My
being fickly
mind reverted
our neighbours.
REMARKS
GAOL-FEVER.
REMARKS
THE
ON
GAOL-FEVER.
I shall
faculty,
ter,
may
If
it
"
in
this
is
abroad,
prifons
obferved
dungeons
and
cells
country,
and
lodging
is
common
to fee
die
in
in
affects
bodies.
On
this
without firing
in winter,
Their diet
;
any
am
have
am
of opinion,
new convicts,
upon them. Hence
the fpirita of
little
apparent
is
general be
own
as
or other bedding
in
have found in
production.
its
as
dirty
illnefs.
mat-
in this
this
fo
would
it
But
and
as onenfive
where, however,
it
-,
in
readily replied,
fome
is
at
relifting
fo
many
he anfwered,
and
" Almoit
all
my
On
GAOL FEVER.
4 68
On my vifits in 1779, I found only one perfon ill of the gaol-fever: he was in
Newgate, under fentence of death. In 1782, I did not find a fingle perfon labouring
under that diforder throughout the whole kingdom. But in 1783, when the prifons
became crowded from the peace, I was forry to obferve, that through the original
faulty conftruction of
many
to infpect them, and enforce the orders of the act for preferving the health of prifoners,
of alarming and
inftances
it
fatal
ftate.
ficknefs in
have noted in
com-
have to
diforder was the proper gaol-fever, produced in and peculiar to fuch fituations
an epidemic
difeafe,
common
or
It
in
the
;
it is
fatal in thefe,
than in other
places*.
*
tifed
It
by
may
not be Improper here to put perfons on their guard againft an artifice not unfrequently pras-
come with an
accompany him, but at
willingnefs to
fome danger
in it, as
he
is
intention to
vifit
the gaol,
When
the keeper
the fame time has artfully dropt a hint that he fears there
made
its
alarmed, returns thanks for the kind caution, and inftantly leaves the houfe.
always the more
dirty, indeed,
infilled
on the
a gentleman,
neceflity
of a clofe infpe&ion
particu-
On
The
may be
vifitor,
CONCLUSION.
CONCLUSION.
CONCLUSION.
It was
my
once
this
in
fome
mend
them-,"
conduce
common
imagined
improvement
to
to
volume.
power
intention
prifons, without
more
perfon of
miserable,
proverbial objection
"
mould be culpable
in
in a
with
ability,
my
matter
had
fo
that
devoted
my
time to their
at heart.
in
my
than to
might
Hearing the
In order to procure
relief.
the authenticity of
was
it
much
my knowledge
it is
which
it,
made
of the
cry
it
my
For the
What
and thefe
doubtlefs, be
it. is
Yet
pend.
hope not to be
is
of
fenfibte,
fome objec-
to
on which
their eafe or
my
and
countrymen
if this
to this
publication
important
procuring for them cleanly and wholefome abodes; and exterminating the gaol-
fever,
leaft
am
national concern of
liable, I
tions
will,
my work
which has
fo often
fpread abroad
its
dreadful contagion
of. abolifhing,
of
of introducing
or at
of preventing
a habit
and retrain-
ing the fhocking debauchery and immorality which prevail in our gaols and other
prifons-
if
creatures
and
will
(hall accrue,
happy
all
TA
BL
E&
TABLES.
TABLE
I.
ESTABLISHED
PENITENTIARY HOUSES
O R
HOUSES OF CORRECTION.
Should
to
to
that
the
in
frame a
fet
it
III.
drawn up by
will
be a
mod
Sir
IVilliam
important object
have put down under a few general heads, thofe circumftances which appear to me mod deferving of attention ; examples of which, carried into practice, may be found in different parts of my book.
confideration of this point,
I (hall
in
the
firft
my
to
And
this
if thefe
eaftly accejfible
appears to
me
a matter of fo
much
eligible.
SECURITY.
Situation contrivance of the building lodging up
turn-ftiles
number and
yard
collar,
flairs
ring,
or
fomewhat of
military
that kind to be
if
worn
or over arcades
two colours
clothes of
gaoler's
for difcovery
winoo
on efcapes
vs
lookup on
times
the
of opening
at certain
HEALTH.
TABLES,
HEALTH.
Frefh and fweet air open windows and apertures for a thorough draught of
to
go out and
air
Cleanlinefs.
meals
water in
themfelves at proper
i
The
prifoners perfons
towels,
finks,
air
prifoners
made
fituated
heads
fliaved
encou-
linen clean, how often other clothes bedding beds brought out and beat.
wafhing and fweeping of work-rooms ftaircafes galleries &c. fewers
2.
Their clothes
3.
The
drains
houfe
cells
yards plenty of
water wafte
fcraping the
walls
lime-whited
twice a year.
DIET.
hot provifions daily
meals
allowance
and
Provifions, quantity
proportioned
quality
in
in
prifoners allowed to
CLOTHING.
A
prifon uniform
materials colour,
&c.
LODGING.
Separate cell for each prifoner fexes feparatedlinen, and bedding
and winter
winter
upon
barrack-beds or iron
time allotted
or wooden bedfteads
what difference
flues or ftoves to
warm
in fummei'
the cells
in,
for fleep.
FIRING.
Fuel what kind and quantity
fires,
where
to be
made
ftoves
flues,
&c,
what and
punifhment
behaviour
when
chapel
manner
of placing
for
the
at
private admonitions
prifoners in
perfons
at
meals
-no
gaming
time
young offenders
to
overlook
to
their
prifoners reading
or drinking
reward and
catechifing
behaviour
chapters or prayers
minifters of
different perfua-
fions allowed.
EMPLOYMENT.
Proportioned to ftrength
without doors
genuity
number
the labour
and
to degree
working together
of criminality
taflcs
mere
labour
made by
prifoners
warning baking
requiring
or
working
at their
own
and
in-
trades
to prifoners.
Wholefomenefs of an employment
manufacture
tools required,
ready
fale
of manufacture
returned
conveyance
at night.
REWARD S>
TABLES.
REWARDS.
.
better provifion
charity
degree
advance
more
work
more convenient
money given
agreeable
lighter or
of liberty allowed
profit
cells
at difcharge
clothes
of work.
meals-
diftribution of
racter at difcharge.
PUNISHMENTS.
Abridgment of
collar, Sec.
rooms
or
term
coarfer kind
diet
ftripes
hard
TREATMENT
An
fire
infirmary
frefh air
in
difgrace;
wearing
folitary
linen
work marks of
{hutting up
or difagreeable
of
nurfes,
an oven
or buried room
nes
OF SICK.
for convalefcents
gradual
fumigation
bark,
clothes
&c clean
expofed to
jury
how compofed
funeral
without
the precincts
for.
GOVERNMENT
OF PRISON.
and examine
without previous notice
feparately
rewards or punifhments room
duty time of continuance
By whom appointed
how
and hear pnfoners complaints
view
unexpected times
whole
examine and
enquire conduct of
weigh
and
proper
favour
To
Magijlrates.
vifit
at
proper periods
to fee
to fix
soners
their
Infpeclors.
the
to
at
provifions
Gaoler.
no
His duty
falary
infpection
complaints
of
fees,
pri-
often to
vifit
to
reprefent
prifoners
payno
in office
prifon,
the
to
tendance at chapel
all
objedts for
at-
diftinctions.
againft admitted
&c-falary of manner
obliged
of choofing
to conftant refidence
himno
rent or taxes to
duty.
Matron.
Salary of
Turnkeys,
number of
office,
Manufaflurer. Salary of
Tajkmajler.
intelligibly
of attendance
of
on divine
drawn up
work
to each
ty
officers
to
diet
at
TABLES.
TABLE
Regulations
De
par
Prisoners of
le
que
tous
les
England, &c.
des
de
la
Marine,
Bretagne,
et
Vtrtan&t
Blefies
et
pour
Guerre.
Grande
dans la
de Guerre,
Prifonniers
in
&
Prifonniers de
PEchange des
REGLES
War
for
Comminaires pour
les
II.
doivent
obferver.
I.
T ES
1 v
ordres donnes par P Agent, aiant foin des prifonniers, doivent etre obferves fans replique ou
guichetier,
ni
perfonne par
de
affaires
la prifon,
II.
Tous
les prifonniers,
Iors
trouve,
Tous
III.
arrive du
S'il
contrevenu
et
les
fi
aux
frais
dommage aux
;
d'echange
noms
noms
et
fi
dans la
et ainfi prevenir la
lifte
confu-
a la revue,
ru
lieu
les frais
de
la
les
foit
en voulant s'echapper, ou
les prifonniers
enfemble contribueront de
de cette reparation.
leurs
noms.
V. Quiconque
a.
la corriger
leurs vivres,
repondront
la revue,
Pindiqueront, afin de
ils
qu'ordon-
de leur vivres.
les
&
difpute.
paye
ainfi
un olhcier
ainfi
les
repris,
frais
contrevenant,
pour
faits
fera
le faifir et le
des-lors
et n'y
rame ner
regarde
et
dans
prifons,
de plus
il
comme
traite
perdra
fimple
matelot.
ou
VI.
11
il
fera
eft
defendu de
permis
aux
battre,
fe
prifonniers
de
fe
quereller,
ou
faire defordre
prendre Pair,
peine
fous
les
ou aux endroits
de punition felon
que
Poifence
l'exigera.
VII.
Pordonnera
&
nettes
&
propres par
les
&
comme Pagent
fes
VIII.
beioin,
qu'ils en
Les prifonniers doivent informer Pagent, des hardes, ou autres chofes dont ils peuvent avoir
pour lefquels ils auront dequoi payer; et Pagent a ordre non feulement de permettre
et
foient
fournis,
mais
aufli
d'avoir
un
foin
tout
parciculier,
qu'on nc
leur
en impofe
dans
les prix.
IX.
TABLES.
IX. Dans chaque 'prifon
quand
le
il
les
prifonniers pourront
de plainte,
fur la
foit
neglige,
ils
nommer
de voir
trois,
s'ils
&
font bons,
s'ils
Et
maniere de
afin
les
qui,
appreter,
trouvant
s'il fe
fervir,
la plainte
et les
changer
foit
pour
doivent, avec
doivent en avertir Meffieurs les Commiffaires, qui ne manqueront pas de leur rendre
qu'il
a des prifonniers) feront permis de refter a la grande porte, depuis dix heures du matin jufqu' a trois
tels
champ.
XI.
Celui d'entre
les
moyen procurer
&ca.
qui ne conviennent pas a un prifonnier d'avoir, ou qui recevra, ou livrera aucune lettre, fera puni de Tabus
qu'il aura fait
de cette indulgence.
TABLE D'AVITUAILLEMENT.
Jours.
Bierre.
Pain.
Bceuf.
Beurre.
Fromage.
Pois *.
Quartes.
Livres.
Livres.
Onces.
Onces.
Pintes.
"4"
Lundi
Mardi
3_
J_
a
-
Mecredi
Jeudi
3
Vendredi
Samedi
Total
44
'
Ou un
livre
Onces.
i
Dimanche
Sel.
ou 6
T
T
T
T
T
T
i
2f
TABLE
TABLES.
TAB
List
and
Fees due
of
their Officers,
Whipped
III.
Acquitted Difcharged
by Proclamation
or
Burnt
againft
in
England,
Hand
the
whom
are
Bills
HOME CIRCUIT,
Whipped
Acquitted
s.
Difcharged by proclamation
NORFOLK CIRCUIT,
Acquittal and order of delivery in murder
The
bill
MIDLAND CIRCUIT,
Acquittal and difcharge fee in murder
The
bill
OXFORD CIRCUIT,
For every prifoner acquitted of felony on one indictment difcharged
For every
WESTERN CIRCUIT,
Acquittal including plea and difcharge
Conviction in man-llaughter
NORTHERN CIRCUIT,
Not
guilty difcharged
Difcharged by proclamation
* " We
14
him
in fuch a
bill
is
Bill
not to be
juftified."
JP
to
Dated Dec,
ift.
1735.
and
their fees
M.S. page
&c.
11.
TABLE
TABLES.
TABLE
An Account
Number
of the
Oxford Circuit
within the
E R K
and
R E.
of Prifoners
for
Oxfordshire.
SI
3-
Worcestershire.
B.
This table
is
to be read acrofs
Prifoners Convicted
by Proclamation
at
Michaelmas
City of
85
* N.
D ifcharged
at the feveral
77 1
Worcester Glocestershir e.
p-
a.
44
to the other.
06
TABLES.
477
IV.
and Sentenced
to be Burnt in
the
Hand and
T)lfcharged
of
w
c
0
e
t-rt
OP
P-
and
Difc
harg
arge*
Difc
rgc
cL
a.
nt
nt
i
the
aj
cr
Proc!
3
5'
Difch
arge
ippe
P-
PS
p-
and
p-
Z
o
Difch
arge
p.
cr
Wh
ippe
P-
3
Difch
Proc
:harg
lama
re
5"
Difch
in
the
p-
P-
and
in
Nc
arge
O
c
ex.
arge
3/
S-
o3
re
Cu
CU
Difch
Whi
0
.arge
ppec
p.
lama
and
arge
Procl
Difc:
Difch
harg*
ama
ippe
&.
p-
arge
p-
cr
arge
Cu
a.
S'
the
Cu
D-
Difch
cr
Proc
harg
Cities
w
n
"
and
Staffordsh IRE.
E.
the
Difc
re
PL.
S HROPS HIR
a
the
Herefordshire.
w
c
Difch
Prifoners Sentenced to be
p-
o"
and
b
^
P
jjf
rge
Proc
Difc
r
OQ
lama
re
P.
a.
0
3
Crq
Cu
P.
years,
13
10
IO
16
10
7
I
20
68
35
Ttfta/.
5
2'
IO
20
49
112
11
"
33
77
in the
3
1
615
47
293
Great Total
1765
I766
I767
1768
I769
I77O
I77I
49
28
Difcharged by Proclamation
22
20
22
12
10
983
TABLE
TABLES.
478
TABLE
V.
HOME CIRCUIT.
Total Account
by Proclamation
Counties of
of
Prisoners Burnt
or
againft
whom
in the
Bills
WhippedAcquittedDifcharged
Hand
in
the
Inclufive.
Bills
Burnt
in
the
Difcharged
Whipped.
not
Total.
Proclamation
Acquitted.
found.
b)
Har
EL.
Hertford
12
36
47
32
136
Essex
24
35
7'
62
223
Kent
75
20
*3 2
9'
34
352
Sussex
*5
23
16
69
Surrey
40
*4
124
77
24
279
*59
96
386
293
12;
1059
Total
TABLE
TABLES.
TABLE
An Account
of the
Number
Sentenced to Transportation:
of Criminals
H-
VI.
Condemned to Death
feveral Counties
&c.
in the
P75 1
15
P753
9
2
*7
'755
>"*.-
1756
o*
11
1758
'759
1760
1764
1765
14
1761
7 62
1763
1766
1767
1768
1769
4
2
1770
1771
1772
Total
20
93
65
21
10
24
16
12
12
24
28
'3
28
21
10
18
33
13
20
29
54
20
16
18
"
i7S7
Norfolk Circuit.
5"
75+
and
tf
1752
Executed ;
5r
1750
to
479
6
2
1
36
12
34
23
31
13
*S
12
46
2
57
29
27
*3
10
*3
19
27
*9
20
16
29
52
45
30
17
27
38
34
16
16
35
18
24
16
-5
72
1
55
34
43
22
'25
28
874
18
117
29
30
434
18
10
44
19
29
24
44
36
2
27
12
202
"
10
*7
35
308
523
35
TABLE
11
TABLES.
480
TABLE
An Account
Sentenced
to
of the
to
Number
VII.
feveral Counties
&c.
in the
Executed ;
Midland Circuit.
Gran
and
in
Petty
Six
Offences
Capital
J
Condemned
Stealing
si
Houfe-b]
Burg]
Murdei
Robb
Treaf
Day
other
Tr
and
Returnin
ranipo
Tranfporte
other
ery.
time.
eaking
OfFencf
Pet
ary.
and
made
Execu
Cro
"on.
ealbn.
and
9f
to
ted.
rjU
rtation.
Crimes.
from
Death.
Vi
1750
1752
16
16
32
13
47
23
45
29
5&
4
6
1753
17
1754
20
29
10
2;
*7
4
4
14
16
175
,756
7S7
1758
J
1759
1 760
1761
1762
1764
1765
35
54
3i
43
*S
32
28
23
*4
45
62
1763
23
25
22
63
45
23
49
23
27
*4
45
9
20
36
21
42
518
116
1057
12
10
1
1
1770
5
3
'77*
Total
So
49
177a
20
279
63
44
60
26
1767
1769
23
1766
1768
63
4+
30
22
12
Jo,
TA B L *
TABLES.
TABLE
Felons
VIII.
Newgate
delivered from
to
a
London.
be
Trail/ported.
Cap
2
S3
cks's
Sessions.
4 8r
ital
wer
Middlefex.
Total.
1'
Seflion.
Hall.
1773
January
Refpites.
10
19
24
IQ
February
16
April
38
4'
20
93
May
10
29
July
'4
49
September
24
Oftober
10
17
December
10
89
20t
77
18
February
16
33
April
IS
24
13
May
22
3^
July
22
12
3=>
90
September
22
16
10
'4
22
16
99
,65
73
29
29
20
>9
12
'774- January
Odober
December
'775- January
February
April
May
July
11
'
20
10
December
79
125
62
74
44
41
*7
37
43 S
25
60
70
10
28
13
66
44
420
61
38
52
16
Oftober
September
S3
-
20
49
40
32
11
22
3i
Great Total
36
324
1
179
TABLE
TABLES.
TABLE
Abstract
Executed-,
of Sir
IX.
and Pardoned,
Peace
Condemned.
Executed.
1749
61
44
1750
84
56
28
1751
85
63
22
1752
52
47
1753
57
41
16
754
50
34
16
1755
39
21
Pardoned (Jc.
17
'
428
Peact
(17:6
numb
18
306
30
13
122
War J
War
175-7
37
26
11
1758
32
20
12
1759
15
1760
14
10
1761
22
17
1762
25
15
10
[1763
61
War
7
Peac
29
236
Peac
f
97
139
1764
52
31
ZI
1765
4i
26
15
1766
39
20
*9
767
49
22
27
1768
54
27
27
769
24
47
1770
91
49
42
1771
60
Total
26
34
457
1 1
233
678
22 4
44 3
TABLE
TABLES.
Table
The
IX.
Continued.
refpeftive Offences,
>
X
s
Forgery.
Coining.
orfe-ftcaling
Murder.
ufe-breakinj
a.
||5'
g
0
-
lifting,
other
Total.
Defrauding
Creditors.
? I
Riot,
Sentenced to Deati
81
208
362
90
9S
II
31
240
72
Il8
251
22
7i
IO
22
I09
678
90
1 1
68
24
13'
443
Executed
or died in Gaol
Of
Crimes,
the hundred and twenty Seflions in the fifteen Years of Peace (eight in a
was Maiden
Sir Stephen
column
in 1749.
Of
intending a
for tranfport
lift
only of thofe
But
convi&s.
at the
5*99
number he adds
Total Tranfports
The
nine
To which
War,
121
is,
doubtlefs, part
of the
401
5600
number 443,
When
pofleflion.
is
referred
I
now
to
this
add, that
is
Table
if
in
page 9,
much
leifure
my
fubjeclrj
at his fervice.
T A
B L
TABLES.
T A
Number
of
Convicts
If
Executed,
during the
X.
London
for
Twelve Years
laft
and
Middlesex,
*.
Murder.
Men.
to
Dec. 1772,
Dec. 1773
to
Dec. 1774,
Dec. 1774
to
Dec. 1775.
Women.
Various Crimes.
Coiners.
Men.
Women.
Men.
Women.
Rioters.
Men.
Total.
Women.
32
37
29
32
40
3
1
burnt
32
31
46
24
38
Dec. 1776
to
Dec. 1777,
29
32
Dec. 1777
to
Dec. 1778,
31
33"
Dec. 1778
to
Dec. 1779,
Dec. 1779
to
Dec. 1780,
Dec. 1780
to
Dec. 1781,
Dec. 1781
to
Dec. 1782,
Dec. 1782
to
Dec. 1783,
2
1
This
table, together
burnt
23
'9
24
33
*9
40
44
6
16
27
1
:
number
45
388
59
10
7.1
467
TABLE
TABLES.
TABLE
An Account
Number of
of the
from
ift
,XI.
January 1768 to
Southern Circuit.
Northern Circuit.
Edin-
Aber-
burgh.
1705
Perth.
Inver|
ness.
Dum-
J--
BURCH.
fries.
May
the reft
Scotland,
1782.
were
executed.
Western Circuit.
Glas-
cow
Stirling.
Crimes.
Forgery.
Ayr.
ift
Vj
Horfe-ftealing.
1769
Murder.
Street-robbery.
-"
1770
1.
Forgery.
1
'l
1771
*i
Robbery.
Murder.
Theft.
Child-murder.
1772
Horfe-ftealing.
"
"
Shcep-flcaling.
1773
Horfe-ltealing.
2
:
Murder.
Robbing the Mail.
Theft, Robbery, &c.
Robbery.
Houfe-breaking and Robbery.
Murder.
Returning from Tranfporration.
Horfc-lrcnling.
Sheep-ftcaling.
1775
Murder.
Theft.
Robbery.
Child-murder.
Shop-breaking and Theft.
Murder.
2
:
1
1776
1
"
Theft.
1777
1778
Child-murder.
Theft of Cattle.
Murder.
1779
1780
Robbery.
Shop-breaking.
Forgery.
Houfe-breaking and Theft.
Murder bv Poifon.
Theft from Pofl Office.
r
1
1
*2
*1
1781
1
I
Robbery.
Theft from Poll Office.
Houfe-breaking and Theft.
Shccp-ltcjling.
I7S2
3a
3
2
23
Robbery.
9
2
76
22
^4
Total Condemned.
Pardoned.
Executed.
TABLE
TABLES.
TABLE
An Account
of the
Number
and Wales,
As fome County
at the
XII.
where
felons; in thofe places I fometimes include petty offenders under the article felons csY.
diftinguifhing the
gaoler's houfe
women
may
probably be
name,
it
my
debtors,
{edit,
vifiting in thofe
i.)
is
to
general
was not
all
Where
Debt
Felons
Petty-
&c.
Offenders.
0.
12
0
0
0
0
Barking
Basford
Bath
a
10
0
2
Batley
17
4
0
0
2
Appleby
Bridewell
Aylesbury
Bridewell
Aylefoam
Beaumaris
Beccles
Bedford
>
>
Bridewell
Town
Berkley
Berkhamftead
Berwick
Beverley
0
2
0
0
0
Town
Hall- garth
Birmingham
>
Men.
0
Sheriff's
Bofton
Ward
Brecon
Offenders,
6
0
i9
0
z
.0
jd
OO
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2-
000100000
;..
V,. 0
c>
38
Ol
31
85
22
'4
ol
47
1
-
12
'
"
a
0
0
0
0
0'
,.''
1
c>
13
&c.
25
c)
Petty
Worn.
li
(>
12
Bradford
oppofite a
Court prifon
Bodmin
is left
1782.
1779.
Worn.
Bridewell
a blank
Debtors.
It
my
my
for
this table I
Men.
JIbingdon
reafon of
in the
The
fufficient
In
England
Time
89
-ii
19
57
Brecon
E
1782.
1779.
Felons
Petty-
Men.
Worn.
&c.
Offenders.
Men.
Worn.
&c.
Offenders-.
O
6
27
3Z
0
0
19
0
0
0
0
i9
0
0
0
0
20
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
Debtors.
Brecon
Bridewell
Brijlol
o
o
o
Bridewell
Lawford's-gate
Buntingford
Bury
St.
41
Edmunds
Bridewell
Cambridge
Bridewell
0
0
0
0
16
32
21
28
"2
Bridewell
Canterbury
Bridewell
0
0
9
0
Carmarthen
'3
*3
Town
Carnarvon
Chelmsford
0
0
O
O
O
O
-2
City
Chester
34
0
6
0
Bridewell
Che
18
City
n
Bridewell
erfield
Bridewell
0
0
Cirencejler
Clare
Colchefter
Bridewell
Coventry
Bridewell
Derby
28
a7
0
0
0
0
4
0
0
0
2
O
0
*4
0
0
-
Doncaf.tr
0
O
0
0
6
0
*4
Town
0 0
0
0
;
0'
gaol
3
0
0
20
0
'
19
Durham
DOLGELLY
Do-Ver Caftle
Deviz.es
Dorchester
Town
jj
12
Town
0
0
0
0
Dartford
0
0
Covjbridge
0
0
Town
Carlisle
Cardiff
Town
Cardigan
Debtors.
Petty-
O
O
0
3
0
4
2
5
7
->
0
0
17
12
22
18
247
J5
112
92
249
24
0
0
143
I27
Durham
TABLES.
1782.
1779Debtors.
Durham
Felons
Petty
Felons
Petty
Men.
Worn.
&c.
Offenders.
Men.
Worn.
&c.
Offenders.
33
4
0
0
0
0
25
21
27
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Bridewell
JtLiy
Bridewell
Exeter
otieritr s
Ward
35
.Bridewell
City
0
0
0
0
2
3
Debtors.
Jt'Olkingoafft
Gainjborougb
*$
City
r
>
1
24
0
33
O
O
y
0
0
0
0
0
0
Gofpoft
yjutlajOTu
Halifax
tlciijteaa
Haverfordwest
Town
1,
0
0
23
0
0
Henley
Here for d
Bridewell
City
I~I
ER
T FOR D
Hitchin
Horsham
Hull
Bridewell
12
0
0
0
0
0
1
38
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
3
3
0
0
0
0
4
0
4
0
0
9
0
0
7
0
0
4
0
43
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
Bridewell
0
0
0
ID
7
3
3
Huntingdon
IO
'4
Ipswich
22
23
26
10
Bridewell
Iv elchester
Kendal Bridewell
Kettering
KingJ* on
Bridewell
Knarejbrougb
Lancaster
Launceston
32
15
35
O
o
0
0
0
0
67
11
0
0
55
0
0
19
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
17
17
0
0
Lavenham
Leeds
4
0
0
22
10
Bridewell
Town
Leicester
Lewes
269
78
lOI
0
291
'
0
4
I
I
O
6
*4
'47
117
Lichj
s.
1779
Debto
Men.
-.
28
O
O
O
O
O
O
16
22
O
O
0
0
8
x
v *"g
77
I71
0
0
0
0
0
Marfhalfea
88
Newgate
46
141
43
0
0
0
Savoy
98
Tothill-Fields Eridewell
Whitechapel
0
0
0
0
74
0
32
Ludgate
183
494
21
38
Ludlow
Lynn Regis
0
0
94
0
0
0
0
72
0
47
0
0
0
0
0
23
0
0
12
0
0
4
0
*3
0
ri
11
11
11
0
0
4
0
14
Npwcafile
*3
4
0
0
10
Tallow-houie
0
0
0
0
\$
0
0
59
281
4 li*
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Nantwich
1007
Town
Town
Northampton
20
25
Wight
0
0
0
Hie of
291
Monmouth
0
0
0
0
0
MUdenhall
Bridewell
0
0
0
Middleivicb
Newport, Effex
i
'55
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Tower Gaol
4
0
0
0
0
0
Bridewell
12
32
Morpeth
0
0
0
Macclesfield
*S
O
O
O
9
0
0
0
-
Lofiwitbiel
Bridewell
0
0
45
Montgomery
25
Marlborough
177
Manchefier
473
Bridewell
*3
King's Bench
Maidstone
Offenders.
Fleet
Wood-ltreet Compter
Petty
Sec.
Bridewell
Poultry Compter
Felons
Clerkenwell
New
Worn.
Bridewell
Borough Compter
7 3 2.
Debtors.
Men.
Offenders.
Bridewell
London
Sec.
City
Liverpool
Petty
Felons
Worn.
22
Lichfield
Lincoln
'
9
0
0
0
4
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
0
1041
60
419
459
Norwich
TABLES.
49Q
1779,
Debtors.
Men.
Norwich
City
Bridewell
Nottingham
Bridewell
Town
Petty
&c.
Offenders.
Men.
Worn.
24
14
O
O
12
O
O
O
O
19
Odiam
Oundk
0
12
7
0
I I
0
0
0
Bridewell
21
Felons
&c.
Petty
Offenders
23
4
0
City Bridewell
Peterborough
Debtors.
29
23
Oakham
Oxford
Worn.
.178 2.
Felons
4
1
0
0
0
0
Petnvcrth
0
0
Plymouth
4
0
A
T
Port/mouth
Presteign
Prejion
4
4
0
Reading
18
9
0
Richmond
12
Ripon Liberty
O
O
O
0
0
0
0
O
O
O
O
16
Poole Bridewell
Bridewell
Town
Rochejler
,0
ssP'*
Romney
--o
Ruthin
St.
'
St. George's
0
0
17
/
X
3
O
O
Liberty
0
0
Bridewell
44
0
18
13
Fields
Bridewell
Salisbury
16
City
0
0
O
O
19
12
13
19
10
i7
'9
16
12
0
0
0
0
2.
0
0
Sherborne
Town
Southampton Sheriff's
Town
Ward
0
Bridewell
Southwark
Shepton-Mallet
Bridewell
Shrewsbury
O
O
O
Sheffield
Southwell
0
0
d~
0
0
20
71
11
ico
143
21
42
0
.O
194
17
I73
I32
Spalung
'
TABLES.
49 1
1782.
1779.
,
,.CX
Spalding
S T A F FOR D
Bridewell
Men.
Worn.
Offenders.
AO
14
Petty
Debtors.
Petty
Felons
Debtors.
2
O
Worn.
O
O
Taunton
Offenders
20
0.
Stamford
SwaJFham
&c.
37
Men.
10
10
9
2
Thame
Tbetford
O
O
O
Thirjk
0
0
5
2
26
10
Town
O
_
Ti-verton
Wakefield
Walftngham
Warwick
ai
Wincheomb
Bridewell
12
12
2D
11
0
0
0
0
O
O
O
O
Town
Wijbech
31
32
"
0
1
O
O
Witney
Wolverhampton
0
0
O
O
Woodb
idge
18
Worcester
>3
O
O
2
0
'3
0
0
'94
J2
90
125
'9
24
'43
57
127
16
105
116
22
269
*4
007
59
1959
12
47
92
119
78
IOI
281
418
100
798
3
?*
.4
(11*9
]3o
"0
17-
Great Total
2 47
4
0
0
0
16
Bridewell
9
"
64
.
'
4
0
St. Peter's
0
0
0
City
0
0
Yarmouth
York
23
0
'
0
0
Wrexham
Wymundham
Bridewell
O
O
City
Bridewell
0
28
7
2
O
O
0
'
Town
Wind/or Caftle
20
28
Bridewell
Winchester
UJk
'
"Mfit
89.
249
H7
117
04
60
419
459
H3
194
17
173
32
917
2058
139
991
1017
*?*
1
In
'
S.
In 1782.
/* 1779.
Men
Debtors
1959.
205 9.
Women Debtors
119.
*39-
Felons &c.
798.
991.
Petty Offenders
917.
1017.
526.
204.
60.
30.
4379.
4439*
Suppofed omitted
Though
have
number
in
1779, and
thirty in
17
82;
I did
not
fee, I
fo that probably,
all
yet as there
are
we have
/ fubjoin
the
Numbers,
confined in the
London
and
Prifons
in the
Hulh*,
Debtors.
Bridewell
Borough Compter
Clerkenwell
Bridewell
Worn.
&c.'
Offenders.
38
25
O
O
79
0
0
its
Fleet
187
King's Bench
Marfhalfea
557
65
25
6
Newgate
101
12
New
Ludgate
Poultry Compter
Savoy
Tothill Fields Bridewell
Wood-ftreet Compter
In the
Hulh
Total
Petty-
Men.
2.
*9
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
56
86
36
194
5S 2
367
14
30
0
0
0
4
34
0
1019
56
0
324
0
Cenfor,
INDEX,
X.
A*
Aberdeen 201
Allowance to
Alms-houfe
at Florence
Alojl
in
Welch
195
counties
Amjlerdam 55
196
Anglesey
hung up
Ihould be
and vexatious
arrefts,
to
prifons,
referred to
7,
his
want of in
AixlaChapelk
fons
Affafiinations,
an hofpital
159,
bread,
Affizes of
127,
continued
foreign
to
acquitted
36>
'35'
146, 148,
16
162,
1 ,
hung up 35
criminals
l7> i3 8 >
51,
52,
56,
61,
39>
H>
W H 2
15
173
95,
101,
1C4,
prifoners
with-
Austrian Netherlands
139
280
bridewell
281
>
fome places
93, 96, 97, y8, ioi, 102, 105, 106, 107, 109,
116, 117, 119, 120, 121, 123, 126, 127, 133,
i34
118
days at 196
fix
pri-
203
64, 65, 66, 68, 70, 72, 76, 77, 78, 83, 90,
144,
rema"n
to
to
162
AfTizes, judges
prifons
in
35
efcape prevented by 458
Allowance
172, 179
137
Alarm-bell, proper
prifons
for 39,
Arras 165
in
43
276, 278
27,
free,
430
bridewell
evaded
Mr.
452.
Antwerp 139
35
251
Irifli,
143
Altena 75
Amiens 16 C
Alcoves
108
Vienna 104
Aikin,
40^
33,
monthly 425
Naples 118
296
Afts,
quantity propofed
prifoners,
Ayljham
295
Ayr 195
Bacon,
B.
X.
Berlin 98
Bern iz$
Bacon, lord,
Badajoz
Bailiffs,
his
account of the
gaol-diftemper 9
54
extortion of
Hall-garth 411
Bala 454
Banbury 34 J
Bicetre 173
what
Bien-'venu in prifons,
Bark and
409
town gaol 41
135
Birmingham gaol 3 1
283
Barking 263
Black Afiize 9
Basford 325
Bajil 127
aft
Bafingjloke
Baftille
Bath
374
174
city
404
Bath proper in gaols 23
a commodious one 321, 449
ufed by way of punifhment 437
Book
ufelefs
314
07
Bordeaux
Jteflou
332
Battel 273
Botanic Magazine
Bayreutb 132
Bounty
Bowes, Mr.
Beaumaris 452
Beccaria, Marquis, quoted 15, 42, 118
Brackley
303
Bedfordshire 283
456
408
337
Bradford 414
cut in
flices for
460
462
in prifons
each prifoner 47
bridewell
be frequently changed 32
a falutary cuftom
air,
Bremen 67
Breflau 97
128
Bedftead
will
his charity
want of
94
war 187, 190, 193
Bkeconshire 460
bridewell 285
to
at Mofcotv
to prifoners of
Bedding,
146
180
Beccles
178
windows 185
422
left
Breton, Abbe,
by a prifoner 320
for
fupplying
Bridewell 2 30
Bel/em 151
lifts
derivation of the
name 230
Bridewells, obfervations on
diftrefs
and
37
idlenefs
in
Berkely 36
Berkhavijlead
founder of a charity
257
Berkshire 337
felves 41
357
Bridge'ivater
X.
134
Bridgwater 404
Caffil
Cellar to
bridewell
404
La wforcl's- gate
bridewell
his legacy
Cejfto
Chamber ry
Chandos, duke
Buckingham 282
Chapel necefTary
Buntingford 257
abfentees
Bury
St.
furniture
to
of, his
80
charity 371,
in gaols
28
Chaplains
22
4c
prifons
attentive, difmifled
306
bridewell
Butler, bilhop, quoted
Dutch
neceflary to bridewells
305
373
25
161
Edmund's gaol
by ma-
be fixed
23
Buckinghamshire 280
Hofpicio
189
30
Chambres de convalefcence
Burgos 161
fire
giftrates
141
Brvffels
Chamber-rents and
440
Bruges 148
Bruifwick
or drown, a fiftion 58
364
pump
40
286
falaries
C.
io5
and burial of
condemned 113
paying prifoners
Calais 182
Calcutta,
Call,
black hole
John,
at
Charter-fchools
395
their donation
222, 226,
229
289
city gaol
kind
affiftance
bridewell
442
319-
gaol 320
Chichejier
273
Child-murder, punifhment of 76
Children of malefactors taken care of
57;
268
work-houfe 268
Capital punlfhments, too frequent
Cardiff county gaol
160, 164
266
gaol 267
city
261
bridewell 443
290
42
462
268
HomeNorfolk
280-306
Cardigan 455
Car lip county gaol 428
Midland
307- 33 6
337 -368
city gaol
Oxford
Weftem
429
2 55- 279
36
9- -404
North Wales
- 437
433- 4S
452- "454
Carnarvonshire 453
Carmarthen
tei- -458
South Wales
159- -464
Carmarthenshire 457
Northern
Carmarthen
Chefter
caftle
457
230
Ciremefier
164
Civita-<vecchia
383
bridewell
it
Cheshire 438
Cbepr caftle 438
his
150
208
Ireland
in
Cambridgeshire 288
Campomanes, count,
fees
4c 5
366
1 1
CTart
Clare bridewell
30
Clerks of
232
demand of
their
by
receipts given
15, 310,
322
Covubrldge
464
Coxe, Rev. Mr.
in Ireland
203
Cronjladt
90
Cruel method of fecuring
prifoners
291
Cumberland 428
16
Cuftomsbad
demand of fees 16
in gaol
numerous
fees,
Clothes to be worn
X.
city
235
prifon
afiize,
Coventry
304
new
12
in prifons
D.
Cobham,
Cockermouth 429
quotation from
Ruffian,
ColcheJJer
Da<vtntry 337
Deal 269
Dean and
86
prifon
annual
De
prifoners,
for
through
the
Collyer,
James,
323
Efq. his
Debtors
few
Conciergerie at Paris
few
171
and
attended
buried
by
214
in France,
their groats 5
rules
167
without
for
government of 371
work 24
effedls
fined 137
working out
cleanlinefs
on the
unruly,
room
433
Cornwall
391
Courts of Confcience, account of 229
Confcience debtors,
confined
26
70
85
Copenhagen 76
Court of
wanting food 5
363
neceflaries
for
cleared,
lhould be allowed to
from others
wanted
flaves
124, 137
feparated
to fend
how
S4
liberal
24
205
Germany 67
Holland 45
in
in
have a right
conftantly attended 56, 137,
Contempts, prifoners
to difcover effedts
few procure
13
cells for, defcribed
447
felons,
criminals
their
and
compelled
Peter,
Cologn 137
a fociety
St.
Condemned
Borough
of
Debtor
Chapter
336
with
cri-
Delft 52
Denbighshire 449
Denbigh 45 O
3
Denmark
Denmark
vifit
Derbyshire
prifons
Dutch
E.
318
Derby, John,
his legacy
Eajl-Grinfead 273
Eden, Mr. quoted
379
320
Deferters, family of
Edinburch
Devizes
377
tables
Elvas
in bridewells
182,
157,
Difpenfary,
Dogs
39
attention
their
to
295
ioj, 109, 466
water 151
229
Cleaning
Clearing harbour
105,
Colouring prints
128
454
bridewell
Fulling-mill
73
Grinoing corn 102, 136
414
379
town gaol 381
fpeflacles
131
Dorsetshire 379
Dort 51
Dover
Logwood
268
caftle
candlewick
how
punilhed 53, 61
fifhing nets
Dublin 202
girth s
gaoler non-refident
lift
in
new
foreign
prifons
66
and mending
deftroyed
in
paper-hangings
pins
142
friend
catch the
gaol-fever
foldiers clothes
ftockings
72,
143,
104
104,
137
whiting 272
419
county gaol 419
334
151
146,
158
ropes 121,
165
London Newgate 69
Durham
80
131
15 6
2
334 34 6 > 35 3 43 433> 439 44
filver lace
136
Dunkirk
43-5
47, 147
gold and
27
Dumfries 201
Dungeons, few
68,
215
102
Drunkennefs,
57, 63,
Drefden
Dow,
108
ftreets,
Digging chalk 72
454
Amfterdam 62
Dol-huis,
434.
Carding hair 47
hare and rabbit down 158
Carrying none to lime-kiln 156
467
prifoners
legacy
his
Employment of Prisoners
Ballaft-heaving
40
43
291
bridewell
19, 42,
153
Ely gaol
132,
14, 15,
9,
197
Edmundfon, William,
Devonshire 382
Diet,
money compared 47
170
65
an'd Englilh
318
D event er
X.
Durham
75
Dependants on prifoners, proportion of 18
Deputation to
Picking
3
oakum
Employment
5 8
Employment of Prisoners
X.
marble 132
Polifliing
plate glafs
Pounding
211
174.
ftones 135,
tile
137
n6,
mould be hung up 34
tables of,
(herds 41 1, 41
118
Spinning, carding,
378
Hone 394
See.
322, 32 s
349> 35
'
'
Spinning hair 68
Weaving damafk 54
carpeting 5;, 68
Felons, wear
gauze 121
121, 158
138*
his
humanity 433
kind affiftance 164
Fielding,
133,
2000
Fine of
for a
new county
court
&c.
fortifications, roads,
66, 72,
356
Fines, the word explained 210
137
necefiity of in prifons
Firing,
garden 93
his
Fernan-Nunez, count,
Winding at a wheel 47
Woollen manufactory 52, 73, 104,
in a
own 338
in their
Working on
236
38
no,
423
117, 163
Mr.
Firmin,
Fijherton
Essex 259
his
fleet prifon 2 1
Ethiopia, India,
&c
rooms
fo
marked 66, 73
Flintshire 446
Evera 153
Flint
folemnity of abroad 45
Florence
Food, want of
fherifFs
ward
for debtors
384
386
fir
94
107
what
Dr.
Fothergill,
convicts
in bridewells
neceffary,
his
and how
fcheme
diltributed
for
33
employment
of
132
F.
France
165
Falmouth 397
Farifh, Rev, Mr.
commended 429
left for
debtors 30
INDEX.
Gaoler, figns table of fees 238, 284, 287, 434
paid for keeping bread account 370
Freylurg I2>
Fuller,
mode
Fumigation,
of by Dr. Lind 32
Gaolers,
125
prevent examination
to
ufed by,
artifice
of prifons 468
complaint of the want of rules for their
G.
own
conduit 371
Gain/borough bridewell
none
329
Naples
fees raifed
233
women's apartments 77
Gaol-committee, report of, quoted 14, 26, 218,
wives
Genoa
Venice
106
19
but once
in
Germany 66
Gallows, mark
on more
in Italy 1
Rujfia
of a feigneurie
Switzerland 125
in prifons
Stow's account of
ter 23,
Garnifh,
261,
3 8 z,
444, 446
he
be 25
ftiouid
condemned
soner
General,
380
ironing a
demand upon,
woman
16
13
for a
prifoner's
own
434
viiits to
prifons 28
Glocestershire 362
Glocejler caftle
362
city gaol
pay
by patent from
charity,
33
G.'ajgow 199
lendar 16
to
Glamorganshire 462
68
obliged
an old,
Geneva 123
Genoa 119
Germany 66, 98, 129
Gerrard, Sir Thomas his
Ghent 144
Gibbet-law of Halifax 418
to
255
reco-
from 12
evils
17
of,
2-
remarks on 467
Gaols becoming
94
fpread of 347
13
beft fituation of 21
his
known
not
447, 461
Gaol, county, propofed plan for 2
on
423,
89
08
Gaoler,
420,
291, 35>
year 297,
167
Switzerland 124
lie
infpecT:
251
116
none
185
falaries
ward 27
bifliop
Go/port
419
fpirituous liquors
no
331
Gouda
367
ajjlze
of bread 362
371
5 z
Gould, judge,
fines
ac-
quitted prifoners 16
3 S 2
Grand-
INDEX.
Graiid-Ckatelet at Paris 171
Holland 44
Gratz 105
Grefham,
Thomas,
Sir
Groats, of debtors
eftate
bound
his
charity 224,
249, 252,
34
5,
for
paying 398
Hort,
Sir
afliftance
164
Groningen 63
Guildford 279
Gwynn,
Dublin 209
Edinburgh 199
Leeds
H.
414
Norwich 294
Oxford 342
Hague 53
Plymouth 389
Hallamjhire, liberty
Haller, Dr.
415
Hofpitals, foreign
his
Amflerdam 62
Antwerp 141
Halifax 418
Bologna 107
Haljlead 262,
Bordeaux 180
Hamburg 72
Brefau 98
Hampshire 369
Bruges 149
Eanau 133
Hanmer 448
Burgos 162
Brufels 142
Hanover 70
Copenhagen 80, 81
Hanway, Mr. on
Cronjiadt 91
Harburg 72
E'vora 153
Harlem 54
Florence
Harwich- 263
Genoa
Ghent 145
Harlem 54
Lille 165
Dr.
his
and fituations 30
Lijbon
20
152
Lyons 179
Madrid 158
Henley 345
Herefordshire 357
122
Hermandad
108
Mofcow 94, 95
Munich 1 30
Naples
359
1 1
Pamplona 163
Pw
Hertfordshire 255
Pet erfburg 88
177
113, 115
256
Stockholm
84
Palaver a 154
Hinkley 3
7r/a 123
Hitchin 257
Hobfon, Thomas,
Ts/fi/o
155
Valladolid 161
his
legacy 290
Vienna 104
Warjaw
96, 97
Hofpitals
INDEX.
Hofpitals
for
prifoners
8,
1 1
Houfe of correction,
no, in,
106, to8,
1
116,
164
fee bridewell
bound
Juftices,
for
Jfle
if
a bridewell
not provided
Dublin 205
Induftry,
to infpeft bridewells
fineable
Education, Peter/burg 88
399
new
Hull,
prifon
K.
Keeper, fee gaoler
Keeper of bridewell,
loft
323.
126
Thomas Robert,
his charity
working on
excufed
Kent
327
fabbath
Ward in,
22 J
Inquifition prifon at
Madrid 160
Rome 112
14
23
prifon
Knarefborough 413,
346,
414
honour of 413
Knoot, punilhment
20 r
of, defcribed
86
county gaol 30 r
L.
bridewell 303
town bridewell 305
Ireland 202
Irons,
375
bounty towards building a gaol 392
150
beft conftrufted
Valladolid 160
Itfvoich
349
confinement
how
230
his benefaction
King, lord-chancellor,
aboliflied
Infirmary in gaols,
Invernefs
Kidderminjler
King,
his legacy
335
47
their
136
Jews
294
264
Kettering
Jew
charities
I.
Jenkinfon,
40
327
Hutchinfon,
murdered 340
be
172
Kingfton
fee
a court
3.8
of Wight 3.72
Mildenhall 3-5
Hotel de la Force, a
36
with
bad
ufe of in prifons
Ladbroke,
13
14
166
432
town gaol
449
doors,
Italy 106
Lath andplafter,
roofed with 88
for
free circulation
letter to
him quoted
4
7,
14
4.36
Iron-grate
Robert,
Lancafler caftle
plates, prifon
Sir
Lancashire 432
efcapes
171
of
air
92,
Latham, Peter,
his charity
434
Laubach 105
Launceflon county gaol 39.1
Laufannt
Laufannt 125
Lavenham 304
Lawfon, Mrs. her
charity 40$
X.
Lumley,
408
Mo/cow 93
Leeds
in gaols 8
Lunenburg 72
414
Leeuzvarden 63
Lyons 179
Leezvenberch gaft-huys 65
M.
tables of fliould be
hung up
34.
Macclesfield prifon
Leicestershire 313
county gaol 3
Leicefier
Madrid
bridewell 315
155
Hofpicio 158
Magdeburg 102
bridewell 317
23
neglect of 36
Lewes 272
room
Ley den 5 3
Licences
Manchefier 43
Manheim 135
liquors,
fell
none
in Ireland
in
pernicious
effects
352
Marlborough 377
Marlhalfea prifon 250
164
its
benefits
30
in
Lincolnshire 326
Lincoln caftle
Matron
326
Dublin 205
to prifon 231,
Mead, Dr. on
233
Mechlin 141
33.
Medical practice
Mentz 136
Merionethshire 454
50
&c. a nuifance
i
Livtrpool gaol
in prifons 32,
312, 429
Middleburg ci
436
bridewell
Middleixich 441
437
Milan, 120
119
MilJenhall 305
212-
Leftnuitbicl
398
Loughborough,
lord,
Lucca 119
I
udgate,
283
Melton-Momobray 315
Lisbon
Lokdon
266
Mann,
27
Liege 137
Litter,
264
bridewell
of in
to
340, 458
Lille
for,
Lichfield
444
444
bridewell
Leghorn 108
new 222
fines
13
foners allowance 33
Minutenefs of defcription, reafon for 122, 211
Monmouthshire
3^9
Monmouth county gaol 359
town gaol 361
Montgomery-
Montgomeryshire
X.
Nunnery with
451
452
8,
Nurenburg'
3o
Nurfe
10
Nuns, keep
1
145
165
propofed 187
Mortality,
bill
427
O.
of at Amfterdam 55
Mo/cow 92
Mounfey, Dr. found no gaol-fever
Oakham county
Ruffia.94
in
Munich 129
Oakum,
Objections
Naples
Qdiam 372
fwered
117
Trent 325
Newcaftle upon
Oil
Newgate 422
Tyne,
3,3.3-
Newark upon
gaol
of
tar,
bruftied with
185
Order
tallow-houfe
Orphan-houfe, Amfterdam 62
bridewell
424
on divine
for attendance
Berlin
Edinburgh 169
of Wight 372
company,
Norman,
01
Oundle 336
their refufal of water
236
Nimcguen 64
Norfolk
Oufe-bridge gaol
409
Oxfordshire 341
293
Oxford
of his prifoners
lift
callle
341
city bridewell
345
univerfity bridewell
Norney, John,
his legacy
440
Oven
Northamptonshire 334
Northampton county gaol
proper in gaols
23
room
432.
called fo
caftle
city
P.
425
293
and county, gaol 296
Padua 106
bridewell
Nottinghamshire
Pamplona
298
162
for fees
316,
322
Paris 165
321
of executions at Amfterdam 56
inhabitants at Amfterdam 5
5
Naples
206
486
Scotland
Peafants, flaves
492
200
no
Patronefs of prifons
with-,
68
gift
410
Tufcany
187
of war
bridewell 325
prifoners in Dublin
officers
Englifli prifoners
Number
345
34
Northumberland
Norwich
434
OJlend 150
223,
Ofnabrug 67
Monmouthjhire 361
New
fervice
Antwerp 14
424
Newgate 213
lfte
an-
43
Pemberton, Mr.
trial
85
his charity
8"5
302
Pembrokeshire 456
Pembroke town gaol 457
Penitentiary
INDEX.
Penitentiary houfes, heads of regulations for
470
Prifon uniform,
127,
begging
195
Perth 195
Hamburg 75
condemned,
for
evils
336
let
out on parole
55
obliged
Cn
Newgate 9
of the opprejjed 3
on boards
to deter
on
liberty of the
10
honour 416
9*.
tried out
bills
by
r
39, 272
voluntary contributions
of irons
own
Prifoner's
for
of prifoners
vifitation
in
Calais
houfes of correction
58, 73,
100,
Dunkirk
foreign,
435
104,
11
31,
82
182
182
1
Rotterdam 51
459
foreign, arched
Bourbourg 182
29
their
94
Bergues
Prefion
Ardres
126,
Prefleign
Englijh, at
225
103
Piangins, baron de, his prifon 124
Ireland
Prague
Prayers daily in
1 1
bread 91
150
of,
laft
in
374
87,
197
treated
before
165
form
173
53
how
Rome 113
Prayer,
cafe of
39,
Poor-houfe at Copenhagen 79
Poultry Compter
38
allowed 149
liberally
fubfifted
bridewell 382
Lille
courts, hard
ftarved to death
Port/mouth
lick,
Berlin
two
al-
Poland 96
his
have
they
quoted 9
Police, good, at
before
offenders 75
Plymouth 389
Portugal
17,
i;o
walh
to
fiaftical
Popham, Mr.
lowance 241
Poole
diftrelTed
England
486
Petworth 272
Plot's Hijlory
22,
r5
1,
in
Petersburg 86
Petty, Sir William, quoted
Placarts painted
Newgate
in
from bridewells,
336
Mofes, his
cells
197
383
92
52, 262
50
65
bridewell
Pontefracl,
in the ftreets
376,
214
Rotterdam
Utrecht
Pitt,
384
burnt in a prifon
Ley din 54
Peterborough gaol
recommended 31
Penzance 397
Perjury uncommon
Peft-houfe at
169
of 397
liberties
by magiftrates
debtors 398
prifon, for
Pewwitb,
vifited
32
at
Belfajl
192
Brijiol
185
Carlife
Chejler
188
189
Frifoners,
3 2
INDEX.
Rafp and fpin-houfes, Dutch, management of 45
Ralijlon 130
Dublin
193
Edinburgh 192
bridewell
Falmouth 191
Forton
339
Recruits from prifons 204
Hull 189
Kilkenny 193
Lincoln
190
Pembroke 188
Plymouth 184
Shreivjbury
heads
190
1
work mould go
common
to
356
one fevcnth 48
two
Rend/burg
duke
thirds
of,
active in building a
272
Rigby, Henrietta, her legacy 434
147
394
prifon
officers
Pump
by
60
ftierifFs
Ripon gaol 4 1
liberty 41
Rivers,
German
66
53
neceflary in gaols
bridewell 268
23
modes of
131, 144
frequented
434
of hofpitals 163
be
ditto
Abigail,
fifth
fixth
to
new gao
462
houfes not
140,
270
fourth 73
Public
135,
76
furplus
prifoners
to
16
houfes and
470
168, 172
part
for penitentiary
made known
flock 41
of,
houfes of correction
86
Yarmouth 191
Profit of
Liverpool 189
Winchepr
339
town gaol
86
in Ruffia
no, 117
86
465
Rome hi
Romney gaol 269
Rotheram, Dr.
his charity
Rothnvell prifon
416
to prifoners
423
Rotterdam 46
for
65, 99,
57,
Radnorshire 459
Ranfomers 181
prifons 53,
R.
of,
government of Foreign
Rags of
his
27?
war
in
France
England 473
for work -houfe 69, 73, 100
or bounds of a prifon 217, 244, 398, 423, 458
3
Russia
INDEX,
Russia 8j
Rutlandshire
333
humanity to
wretched
liberty gaol
Smith,
258
bridewell 258
B rievelf s gaol
St.
Catharine's, gaol
St.
3/8
128
debts 229,
240
g ao1
of
at Carlifle
429
Southivark county
195
among
prifoners, 84,
164,
167,
173
Secrete chambers
at
in,
107,
clafles
of
in gaols,
Sheffield,
how
belt confhutted
261
24
402
be keeper 28
Silesia
97
nc
332
its
extent
Str a/burg
debtors 106
136
Straw, plenty
Suffocation
237
82
Sudbury gaol
bridewell
Shropshire 353
Stone
353
450
of
350
remarkably eafy
Stockholm
courts
bridewell 351
from 278
in
Staffordshire 350
Staircafe,
gaols
in
general remark on
permitted
32
475
be
to
not
gaols
63
church for different
134
towns where no prifon,
374
gaol
120
criminals
Sefllons at
373
374
bridewell
Stables, &c.
Separate
399
Southampton bar-gate
314
for fmall
253
Somersetshire
196
Scurvy, prevalent
in prifons
Selothurn 127
Scotland
128
99
cn gaolers
93
Scbivabach
of punifhment 76,
74
prifon
mantle, an engine
any
i>oy
330
fine
gaol
Schaffihaufen
226
of 41
375
376
Spandau 10
Spanifh
Spalding bridewell
276
Salpetriere
his legacy
Dr.
370
Omers 180
city
Mr.
Spain 153
239
dole of bread
108
105,
78
366
148,
St.
118,
S.
St. Allan's
116,
163
152,
of,
not farmed
351
307
by brimftone,
355
an
ancient
punifhment
i39
Suffolk 301
Summer rooms
in
an hofpital 88
Sunday*
Sunday, no
admitted on
vifiters
X.
126
dinner, an encouragement
33
obfervations on
363
working on 71, 93
Surgeon excufed by contradt from attending gaol-
the
Trenck, his
Trial,
443
Surrey 274
Triefie
Sussex 270
Truro
Sivaffham
Turin
bridewell 295
Swanfey town gaol 464
Sweden 82
in
464
of confinement
place
mode of
20
fever 383
fliip
42
102
Sweden 83
105
Turnkeys, many,
Switzerland 124
in
of 166, 271
falary
mould not be
prifoners
27
Tver 92
T.
U.
Talavera 154
Tap, inconveniences
arifing
Utrecht
.26
Tapfter
lets
rooms
to prifoners
V.
Valladolid 160
Varying
an
all
prifoners,
fent
by
aflizes
are held
Verheterhuizen
the
in
346
59, 6;
304
his legacy
Vienna
376
388
bridewell
125
103
book 147
Vihorde, large prifon there 142
Vilain, count, his
388
lhould
not
Sunday 126
on
be
time 28
Toledo
82, 99
W.
by weights 128
horrid 67, 70, 72, 125,
408
town gaol 340
Walfall town gaol 353
138
reftrided 124
Wallingfiord
130
Tower
Ward
212
of fees 374
figns table
in
prifon
for prifoners
committing
from
court
342, 416
Warrington
454
in hofpital
Warrant on
Town-clerk
and
23
155
Torture abolilhed
feffions
15
408
Thomfon, the poet, quoted 14
Thumbs, noofe put about 215
Thumb-fcrews for fecuring
towns where
evil
Venice 106
298
Thirjk bridewell
magiftrates
64
218
Ihetford town
36
43
Warsaw 96
3 T *
Warwickshire
Warwickshire
X.
Women
308
prejudice
30
againft
163,
177,
rooms
charity 268
Woodlridge bridewell
173
Wooden
137
city
Work
gaol 349
at
gcod
Wildman, Mr.
his
of 199
effects
Wrexham
prifon
town gaol
Windows
in
in
bridewell 295
Y.
Yarmouth town gaol 299
how
for
beft conftrufted
2a
keeping open
373
remark on
gaols,
7,
349.
bridewell
393
St.
of
debtors,
gaol 409
bridewell 411
344
gaols
crowded
Yorke,
Peters gaol 41
Sir
Jofcph,
his polite
committed
of
for
Z.
to piifoners 219,
244
Zell 72
125
baflardy,
cruel
treatment
Zurich
128
Zwolle 64
3*9
THE
END.
53,
66
diftiefs
36
affiftance
Women
300
Yorkshire 405
with
450
373
Witney bridewell
in 373
be conftrufted
340
contrivance
Window-tax
to
Wyfchnei Wolotfchok 92
371
340
gaols,
bridewell
Wymundbam
369
debtors prifon
how
Wurtzburg 113
366
bridewell
caftle
in bridewells,
37
Work-fliop in debtors ward, neceffary 24
Wiltshire 375
Windfor
Work-rooms
104
100
benefaaion 234
W'nrhcomb bridewell
Amfierdam 61
Berlin
prifons
346'
neceflary in bridewells 38
Work-houfe
237
German
264
ZzS
bridewell 348
White-wafhing,
416
303
prifon,
25
a feparate court
Worcestershire 346
242
White-lion
for in
Woad-jlreet Compter
gate-houfe
Whitechapel prifon
359
felons,
Westmorland 430
Westminster 240
White,
351,
3 J9 ,
pany 250
178
We/el
338,
Watts,
13,
bridewell 309
Wafhing rooms
irons
in
week 437
every
difciplined
DIRECTIONS
the
to
BOOK- BINDER.
be inferted as follows:
to
Page
Piatt
N.
I.
2.
3.
52.
4.
6r.
5.
6.
Utrecht, Peil-houfe
to face
2,1.
37.
...
64.
65.
7.
8.
88.
9.
Mofcow,
Prifon,
92.
10.
Botanic Magazine,
11.
Rome, Front of
the Prifon,
76.
94.
m.
12.
Houfe of Correction,
114.
13.
121.
145.
155.
174.
14.
&
15. Bern,
Employment of
16.
17.
Madrid, Prifon,
18.
Baflille,
19.
Lyons, Hotel-Dieu,
20.
London, Newgate,
21.
22
Ground Plan,
12c.
179.
J
213.
388.
388.
HISTORICAL
ON
CASTLE
THE
OF
IN
17? 4-
ADVERTISEMENT.
The
abroad, that
difficulty
I was
from
readily appear
enough
to
meet with
to
me, that
ojity,
from
would
it
is
was prohibited
work
it
be acceptable to
the celebrated
my countrymen
it
and
dejeribes,
it to
therefore procured
a faithful
my
Cardington,
"
"
"
ivere
left in the
have
tie
occurred
tranjlation of it to be
made
JOHN HOWARD,
78-
It Joon
Dl'ORDSHIR
Bedfordshire,
if once
at length fortunate
to the
"
I was
men
curiojity
this,
27,
much
matter of no Jmall
England.
and
March
was a
the
itfelf.
This
it.
it is
daily
of great importance
is
would foon
be
la the
public
ivhome-ver he or his
officers
an end of
" for
thought
and immunities.
been afjured upon good authority, that, during the mitd adminiftration oj Cardinal Flcury, above 54,000- lettres
cachet ivere
ijfued,
Commentaries, Book
I.
Chap.
I.
the mortal
nature,
which
Nothing
and prifons
tions,
French
to
of which
the Baftille
laft
is
M.
is
of
all
The
and accurately,
tears.
de Saintfoy has
it is fafeft
than
to
/peak.
but
my
it is
agree
own
it
facrifice
my
on the chains
with which they have been loaded during three fucceflive reigns.
He
who
had caufed
His memory
national veneration.
was under
It
be conftructed even
to
will
in his
own houfe
filled
a vade in pace,
where he frequendy
Hiftory prefents few reigns in which more violences and cruelties have been exercifed,
than that of Lewis
has erafed a
title,
XIV.
he fo
Flattery conferred
little
merited.
It
but pofterity
without principle, tyrannifed over by his pafiions, vain, ambitious, turbulent, and often
cruel.
During
were
their engines.
They
obftinately
two preceding
all
who
inefficacy,
and contradic-
It
may
and concluded
in.
the
laft,
as well
reigns.
Since
this
caftle,
in
it,
die rules
more
by which
With
it
is
who
than ever.
It
is,
there-
fome time
filled
it
On
this
account
was bequeathed
it
me
prefent to the
by the author,
fpot.
God
may be
rendered ufelefs to
my
HISTORICAL
ON
FRENCH
I
HE
Baftille,
IN QJT
TIO
N.
at its foundation,
fide
of the fuburbs of
Hugh
St. Antoine.
whom
THE
The two
1369.
this caftle,
and
April 22,
of retreat, behind and parallel to the fTrft, were erected ; and thus the entrance into Paris
was protracted between four detached towers, and a double bridge. The remains of the
firft.
bridge
ftill
This
continue.
edifice
Hugh
St.
of his attention
He
to the public
The
partifans
good.
was removed
This
members of the
was erected
laft edifice
firft
of the
bridges
ftreet,
fur-
He was
firft
at
At
accufed
which
he-
had
him of
juft built
By means of intrigues,
commencement of the
the
Led by Caboche,
They
walls
The
impiety and
The
monuments
condemned
The
walls.
level
Antoine on the banks of the Seine, tha Pont St. Michel, and the Petit-Chdtelct, are
herefy.
VE
at equal diftances.
Aubriot, born at Dijon of obfcure parents, was provoft of Paris, and minilter of the finances,,
under Charles V.
of the gate
of the
in the thicknefs
feet
till
be added
to
his
and afterwards
Vile to procure arms, and took out three or four thoufand iron maces {mailletij .vhence they acquired the
name of Maillotin.'.
the prifon in which Aubriot had been languifhing for feveral months,
chofe him for their chief, and compelled him to accept the
to withdraw fecretly.
known
to his
On
command.
and
He made
fled into
Hugh,
Aubriot was of the fame family with John Aubriot of Dijon, bilhop of Chalons from the year 1342 to 1350.
rounded;
The
of the
caflle
An
it,
Baftille is fituated
advanced guard
is
it
entrance
Its
is
on
left
end of the
at the
fide
This
w hich
is
modern
near which
you afcend
(as
iron,
Near
the
which have
On
Beyond
this,
you muft
by
feet
this,
is
pafs
eighty, in
which
is
great-
five gates,
all
of
a fountain.
entering by the barrier, to the right are apartments in which the fubaltern officers
this building
from
called
project of
is
its
is
money amaffed by
the
Due
In
Near
reft.
is
an arcade which
Next,
feveral
this,
of the court
lefs
Henry IV.
the
of gates,
is
Hotel du
the.
of guards.
fentries,
guard-room
court.
the
another guard-room.
is
The
it.
are draw-bridges, with a great gate, and a wicket, leading to the court of
Gouvernement.
of
1634.
till
the
The
at prefent.
is
into feveral
chambers
for prifoners.
At
the angle
are
Walls of ten
At
the
many apartments
a large
modern
In the centre of
Within
of the
hall,
where the
in the
chamber
On
effects
left,
entering
This
is
by the fame
firft
a ftone ftair-
On
the right
is
the vef-
Here
ftaircafe,
The
is
At
you
fecond court.
the
this
from a fmaller
it
building
which the
this
a large prefs, in
fome turnkeys.
du Puits.
is
There
for prifoners
of
diftinction, or thofe
who
are fick.
The
firft
ftory,
above the
c6\in.-
cil-chamberi the major lodges in the fecond, and the furgeon. in the third.
Oa
the other fide of the great court, near the kitchens and the Tour de la Liberie (Li-
berty-tower) are apartments for prifoners, confiding each of a great chamber, and a elofet
The dungeons
this
ground
There
floor.
of
this
which a
in
They
hear mafs.
by
The
a lock
to
the outfide
Next
windows
towards the chapel, with curtains, which are drawn at the Sanflus, and clofed again at the
Five prifoners being prefent at each mafs, ten only can hear it each
concluding prayer.
If there
day.
is
is
a greater
number
go
life,
(which
all
and thofe
conftantly.
On
the fide of the chapel, defcending towards the barrier, are the Tour de la Bertaudiere,
and next
to
it,
one muft
apartments for the adjutant, the captain of the gate, and fome domefiics,
or turnkeys.
is
To come
to
it,
This
is
Proceeding through the entry of the houfe which feparates the two courts, you come to
At the further end of it, on the right, is the Tour du Ccin (Corner-
Between
tower.)
and the Tour du putts (Well-tower) are old apartments in which the
and likewife fome chambers for prifoners, but which-
it
The
court,
The
which makes
it
Ccur du Puits
The
is
offal,
In
it is
a large
in this
fifty.
cuter face of the caftle prefents four towers towards Paris, and four towards the
The tops of the towers compofc a continued platform in terraces ffoffdly con-
fuburbs.
in
perfect,
Thofe
repair.
There
prifoners
who have
upon
this plat-
firft.
On
caftle
is
la Ccrute,
this tower,
w e come
r
is
marked
to the en-
All
into
the
-towers
enormous
are
clofed
below
locks.
are
with
large
filled
with
of toads, newts,
bolts
a
rats,
let
mud
and
fpiders.
ipiders *.
is
camp
and a
little
ftrav/
is
whom
Two
doors,
thick,
locks.
All the upper chambers are fhut with the fame care.
room above
two or
There
in
The
They
plates.
The
to another.
of the wail
three.
by
eight.
There
feet.
There
was
fcarcely
is
its
The
Calottes
in the
whom
in thefe
is
little
death of Louis
XL
and
it
is
from
wrought
might have no
The
fortunate
enough
eldeft
to be delivered
1
in the
refting place,
Philip PHuillicr, governor of the Baftille, and every three months to have a tooth pulled out.
thefe princes loft his fenfes under this treatment.
of thefe
In fummer,
light.
dungeons
their feet
One
windows on the
have but
as the princes of
for a
interior aperture
in thefe
protracted fufTerings
room
Thefe rooms,
Calottes.
clifcance
about ten
are
in the towers,
All
* It
There
which are
all,
of
of
by the
which
could not have been believed, or even imagined, without fo convincing a proof. See HiJI. de FAnc'tcn Gouverti.
at la France, par
Tom.
+ The Count de
III.
p.
226.
Eoulainvilliers (p.
at
He
Chateau
Dup'eJJis les-Tours,
dungeon
the iron
two of
battle againft
he ended
filth,
are
all
to
be conftrufled in the
in
The
&
lie
own eyes
in
caftle
in a
of Locbes, where
of
Me-
in ^to.
la Ballue
Louis XII. himfelf, while duke o Orleans, was made prifoner in 1488,
;
of Blois,
of Lod.es.
mier, in Bretagne
in the caftles
Objervations Eiji.
caftle
his days.
and
The
and Moiit-Saint-Micbel.
Baftille,
to prifon,'he
at the battle
of
St.
Aubin-du-Cor-
their
is
excemve; and
There
infupportable.
is
in the Calottes *.
Almoft
twenty
the chambers of the towers are octagonal, fourteen or fifteen feet high, and
all
diameter
in
mod
In
The
The
of the arm.
fize
Many
to the windows.
have
(a
The
higher ones are obfcure and remote, on account of the diftance of the outer aperture of
The
the windows.
fufficiently light,
many
In
leafl:
of the ramparts.
thefe
on the
infide.
cafes,
manner
that
view
all
All the chimneys are grated above, and iron-barred below, and
ences within
them
Some
left in
damp
their
firft
winter.
They
door prefents
itfelf to
in
chamber
in the
are
all
by the name of
The Count
offer to
walls,
calotte
their tower,
is
the Jeccnd
on which, however,
are to be
num-
all
joined to the number of their chamber: lb that the BaftiUe name of a prifoner
feen the
has
then comes the fecond Baziniere, the third, the fourth, and the
Baziniere.
Each tower
other parts.
alfo in feveral
privies,
wooden mutters
is
Tre/or,
ike.
&c.
de!truftion
was refolved
him by Louis
edges
to
either
others were
drowned with a
duke d'Aiguillon, a
caufed the perfons
door in
tine
floor
caftle
clofet
whom
fell
in this manner.
at the Baftille,
Hill
preferves the
name of
their feet,
and they
fell into
3X
feat,
and
at prefent
opened under
to death
which
Tom.
it
belongs to thp
a profound abyfs.
green
5*4
green ferge bed with curtains, a draw bed with three coverlets,
two
tables,
two
pitchers of water, an iron fork, a pewter fpoon, a goblet of the fame metal, a brafs candle-
two or three
flick,
compofe
Each
candle a day, a
Their linen
is
prifoner
is
and of
and
tinder, a
flint,
The
loweft
noife
own
his
of
bolts,
profit.
is
of two
is
The
prifoner.
fifty livres
three.
upon each
A turnkey has
terrible.
is
tendants.
fleel
are claiTes of
andirons.
The
chairs,
ten Jous
livres
of twenty, of
livres,
this
There
of
five,
is
ten,
wood
for fuel
a feparate
is
article.
The
him
.
ill
kitchen
is
who
is
This
drefTed.
to the
bad
is
hundred and
per diem,
livres
fifty
is
augmented
of the prifoners.
fare
for
He
has under
fuppofed prifoners,
fifteen
To
at
proportion
in
fifty livres
added confider-
able gratuities.
On
flefh days,
days, a foup, a
flice
The
vegetables.
birds,
On
and a
each
defTert,
the ftomach
is
On
on meager days, a
from
only
fit
flice
for lamps.
Thurfdays, two
little
of
flice
roaft
f An
entree is
The
a haricot.
On
mutton
plate
on meager
they have a
bad foup, a
is
meat (cow-beef,
it is
entree
flefh days,
article
the fupper, a
falad
and an
bouilli *,
In the evening, on
entrees.
bouilli is the
oil
On
On
On Mon-
at
tart,
Tuefdays,
Wednefdays, a fmall
fteaks.
The
falad.
bouilli
and the
defTert.
St. Louis,
Each
they have a
The
vice
is
with a
commonly
filver
change
There
is
an apple, a
fome
plate,
of the
Some
out of the
caflle,
Common
Carnival
pigeon.
flaff
The wine
God
ill
and
in
is
earti
which one
is
it
in
All
rit
fome otht
this contributes
hi
much
this
belongs to the
per-
<
but
recommended have
as
much as
wood a day
much
as
the
to ruin
for vengeance.
fer-
dreffed.
man
The
obtained to be ferved in
is
and
is flat
nor alone.
augmen-
On
officers
r le
cherries, goofeberries,
Sometimes leave
pewter.
The
wine a day.
bottle of
bifcuit,
is
Baftille.
all
made
is
Tome
with
fifh,
butter, or a la tripe,
a repetition 3 and
is
deffert
on the bottom of a
brown
little tart.
prifoner has a
very bad.
St.
Saturday
or milk.
Monday
At
ggs.
Many
they pleafe.
cook
in the city.
to burn in winter.
is
twenty
There
Their name of Porte-clefs (keygiven on account of the monftrous bunches of keys they carry, there being five
great ones to a fingle chamber.
bearers)
At
is
fentinel
is
at the
before they
come
The ftaff
is
chapel door,
till
livres a
year
is
fixty
thoufand
During mafs, a
who makes
his
is
removed
livres,
The
of each tower.
whofe commifllon
expence.
at the foot
is
tenant,
fentinel
not polled
is
out.
confifts
worth above
armed
who
an adjutant
at fifteen
a king's lieu-
which he receives
five
thoufand
hundred
and a
phyfician lives out of the prifon, and has an apartment in the caflle of the
Tbuilleries.
It is not above thirty years that things have been on this footing.
Formerly, the o- 0 vernor and king's lieutenant were the only officers in the nomination of the king.
The
others were
named by
the governor,
free
at his pleafure.
They had
the caftle.
The
fervice
is
veral obtain
it
The men
hard.
fait,
cannot
The
lieutenant.
lie
who
None of
their pay.
hundred men,
Se-
abroad without a
lie
who might
is
one
of
only.
The
in
He
him.
whofe department
is
comptroller-general, and
amounts
The
to
makes
caftle
is
Tins
The
the payments.
Two
rounds.
if
which
is
fixed a
make any
the prifoners
wooden
and
left
in front
The
officers
ljas his
This
is
called the
ferjeants take
Each
is
fur-
During the
and
is
who walk
attempts to efcape.
It
ditch
rounds.
amine
to
feet wide.
The
dry, except after great inundations of the Seine, and abundant rains.
the
livres.
money from
all
num-
bered and perforated, which they Aide upon a pin, the bafe of which is fixed into the
bottom of a padlocked box, fuch as is ufed in garrifoned towns. This bo:: is carried
every morning to the
ftaff-officers,
who open
it,
and thereby judge of the exadtnefs or defect of the rounds. At the fame time an account is given to the king's lieutenant and the major of all that has been feen, heard, or
All that has paffed within or without
is
awake.
in the night-time.
'
is
down.
the fentinel within the caftle rings a bell at every hour, to give notice
Guard
is
mounted
at
is
All
is
opened
at
The
The
tattoo
is
beat at
up between
the king.
The
livres a
have
it,
who
fortrefs
It
life,
affair
is
On
the
who
become more or
left
The
of the
is
now
made
Baftille
detached from
This
is
gate of the
way
leading to
Cmte.
flanked by a baftion parallel
is
Baftille.
commifTary of the
Baftille.
cafes
a large bafticn
is
The
into a garden.
la
He
He
ftruftions,
One
diftradted.
lefs
caftle.
department of the
is
are
which
to that
When
are at prefent
of Damien (1757).
it is
who
old domeftics
There
of walking.
liberty
lefs
body of the
Paris.
The
is
Without
at ten,
is
the
mafs
laft
have penfions.
retired,
This
This
fays
are
and one.
a titular confeflbr,
is
They
year each.
t\ /el ve
There
morning.
at nine in the
there
He
has under
is
him
a titular commiffary,
this exclufively.
He
is
called the
who
up what
is,
is
done
in this
caftle
arbitrary.
His trunks,
them
clothes, linen,
which he
is
apprehended.
It
not
is
ufual to fearch perfons of a certain rank; but they are afked for their knives, razors,
fciffors,
watches,
canes,
and money.
jewels,
At
their
examination,
this
the prifoner
fire.
The hour
of dining
is
eleven
is
They who
;
and of flip-
fix.
the beginning of their confinement, they have neither books, ink or paper; they
on the walks
he
After
is
may
When
whom
ail
who feldom
At
refufes.
or refufed,
his
firft
go
fervant or an attendant,
according to circumftances.
&c.
firft
be
to"
and to receive
their
anfwers;
to
this
channel.
The
of the
officers
They
police.
by
The
ftaff
noon and
who
at night:
but
if
they defire
If no notice
are confined.
to die prifoner.
is
their letters
it,
a refufal.
it is
The attendants whom they appoint for thofe who are not allowed their own fervants, or
who have none of their own, are commonly invalid foldiers. Thefe people lie near the
men,
who
prifoners,
report
them
is
to the police:
it
myfteryv trick,
fiiare,
artifice,
The
and treachery.
man on
government, and
Sometimes
In
attendants,
officers,
all.
He may
words are
is
the Baftille.
This
commonly
officer
caufes prifoners
Sometimes he goes
to vilit
them
to
and razors,
when he comes
in their
chambers
efpecially
the ladies.
When
He
of his confinement.
as
much
upon
the caufe
In general,
When
faid or written
is
Notes may be
never anticipated
This
any thing
in
office
he
muft afk
by the turnkeys.
is
irlel
forgot.
may have
who
it is
always
A perfon
to
is
be
or indifpofed
prifoners with fugar, coffee, tea, chocolate, confections, and the neceflary remedies.
The
is
an hour a day
fometimes an hour
in the
may be
prifoner
quently
this is
day when
down
not done
this is to
after
till
be done
fome weeks.
often he
is
Sometimes he
is
it
but fre-
is
moment
he
is
brought
When
com-
Thefe commiffioners
a prifoner:
feffion
them,
from him.
They
artifices
to get a con-
conviction.
Their interrogatories
gatories
on the
words and
prifoner's
actions,
but on his mofl fecret thoughts, and on the difcourfe and conduct of perfons of his acquaintance
The
whom
upon himfelf
fpeedy
it is
examiners
tell
that if he will
releafe,
but
make
at flake
life is
day
that this
if
more than
him
to ruin
have difcovered
Sometimes they
and menaces.
an infolence that
fatigue prifoners
and
ufe infults,
up the meafure of
fills
fufficient
that the
by varied and
treat the
unhappy
with
fufferers
that
in-
multiplied interrogatories.
careffes,
all
They
depends
his fate
fair declaration,
the
bafe
him
that
inftruments.
If the prifoner
makes
tell
they have no precife authority for his enlargement, but that they have every reafon to
expect
it
going to
folicit
whom
The
&c.
it,
new
prifoner's confeflions,
from
far
interrogatories,
new
vexations.
who
hold their
infide
of the
members of
The
royalifls
They never
enter the
is,
the others
them.
In order to obtain
at the arfenal.
difference
or of the Ckdtekt y
council,
Parliamentarians.
never
The
Baftille.
the
du Gouvernement, or
this
vifits
and mufl be
folicited
till
it
by powerful
die inftruSlion
is
completed.
friends without.
prifoner
on the towers or
may
in the
garden, of reading the newfpapers and journals, of being affociated with perfons of their
acquaintance,
all
if
thefe, petitions
Many
mufl be written
to the lieutenant
walk together.
For
perfons confined on account of the affairs of Canada, had permiffion to fee each
other.
During
the time of walking in the garden or on the towers, prifoners are always
fit,
and fometimes
prifoners, efpecially
officers
when
Even
invalids.
accompany
In winter, they have them brought into the hall where they
vifit
them
they are
in
chambers.
their
recommended
to him.
is
The governor
alfo
Converfations with
obferved and
all
vifits
thefe
told.
Great
who
up while
In order to
This
a prifoner,
vifit
commonly
is
to leave
The
chambers.
in their
it
is
the perfon
till
a,
and the
The
vifitor
is
vifits
on one
of the chamber
fide
in the middle.
Prifoners
after.
in
duration of the
officer or turnkey,
gone.
Thefe
it.
is
police.
This
is
vifits
may
on the other;
It
is
never per-
may have
any
relation to
it.
prifoner to receive vifits without witneffes, a permiflion from- die minifler and
For a
requifite,
is
which
is
The
officers
of
Every day
major
the
gives an account in writing to the lieutenant of the police, of the ftate of the prifoners,
of
the vifits they have received, of every thing important that has been faid, heard, or done,,
in the caflle.
ciple
from
in this place
is
fubjecl:
to exceptions
influence,
Very
arbitrary will.
is
firft
prin-
count are treated very differently, according as their recommendations are more or
leis
considerable.
There
is
books carried to
The
falfeft
their
hear your
" your
It
is
The
go
to it; others, to
begin-
have the
chambers.
only a pretext
Thefe
would be
obtain
liberty
" enemies."
Some
things are told the prifoners with an air of fincerity and concern.
a library, founded
irritated.
againfl:
The
affair for
<c
It is
you.
you
loft
have powerful
kinghe
can never
it.
are vague, indeterminate, falfe or equivocal promifes, inexhauftible and conflantly deceitful
hopes of a fpeedy
releafe,
and
very
lavifh.
To
cover the odium of the barbarities exercifed here, and flacken the zeal of
relations,
or patrons,
the moft abfurd and contradictory flanders againft a prifoner are frequently
publifhed.
The
Thefe
There
all
number of
the apartment he
cafe of the
fame number.
The book
.to
filled
The
number of
At
real obftacles
a great clofet,
is
and
which are
refources,
is
there
is
entered in a
is
chamber.
book
to occupy,
The book
his
name and
his
rank,
the
love,
refpect, fidelity,
effect
an acknowledgment of
thanks that his majefty has not delivered him to commiffioners extraordinary^ and a promife
to reveal nothing that he has feen or heard during his abode in the Baftille.
A third
The
account of
me
The
fourth
is
paffes
names of
an immenfe
Thefe
fheets
is
folio,
are
and
which aug-
I.
Names and
II.
They
are
titles.
ranks of prifoners.
at the caffle.
who have
III.
"Names
IV.
V.
is
Column
the prifoners,
all
his fteward
hook
forirtj
effects.
This
book
expence.
is
of fecretarjes of fbate
The major
fills
the fixth
column according
him
inftructions
when he
pleafes,
and
feventh column contains an hiftorical relation of the actions, characters, lives, manners,
and ends of
prifoners.
juft
or
are
falfe
Many
prifoners have
no note under
thefe columns.
This
is
high
as the difcoveries
meet
is
finifhed,
it
from
caftle
this
prefent major,
who
foundation.
He
has gone as
its
When
where
all
is
There
a
is
vernor of the
made with
As
Baftille,
care,
all
all letters
foon as a prifoner
is
conducted to the
by
who
collection
is
In
his arrival.
many
Often a particular
is
The
police.
anticipation,
cafes,
letter
this
from
name of
of deaths,
the true
in order
tracts
There
Whenever
of the
but
it
make of
is
right to the
falfity is
this
is
written in the
of the
Baftille
muft
firft
be informed of
the extract.
of which
ceremonial
is
is
flopped.
fame
diftinetion.
falutes,
The Memoire
des Prefidens
them away
Thefe
laft
makes mention of
foners, or take
enters the
No
and
Baftille, the
The fame
opened.
The commiflary
There
caftle
are entered
it.
a domeftic
deceive pofterity.
to
it.
M.
de Renneville f, who was confined in the Baftille eleven years and a month, left it
1 6th June
17 13, and retired to England, where he compofed two volumes entitled,
Ulnquifition
Some
by
fecret
t Rene- Augufte Conftantin-dc Renneville, the youngeft of twelve brothers, all military men, feven of
had been killed in battles for their country, was born at Caen, of a family of dillindtion originally
whom
Anjou.
On
his return to
officer,
France, he was
he was fent
firft
to feveral foreign
commiffary to
M.
de Chamillard.
king of England.
Amfterdam,
work
M.
in
in twelves,
to
George
by Stephen Roger
I.
at
This interefting
171 5, and were tranflated into Englifh and Flemifh.
It contains die hiftory of different prifoners with whom
rare.
become very
is
The
caftle.
to
be
acquainted,
this
is
during
his
long abode
in
this
changed
of
this century.
millard.
him
fufpedled, and he
Bafiille.
no charge was found againft him, he was however confined eleven years and a month (from
to June 16,
1713.)
at the caftle, he
He
was confined
in the
firft
Coin,
of Luxemburgh, and the marfhals Biron and Baflbmpierre had been lodged.
that
M.
le
Bafiille
May
M. d^
which the
14,
imprifonment.
Although
It
was
for
in the
fame chamber
Hie
ANECDOTES,
ANECDOTES,
1.
'Charles de Gontaiilt duke of Biron, peer, admiral, and marfhal of France, governor
of Bred, though loaded with favours by Henry IV. treated with the enemies of the ftate
(the Spaniards, and the
duke of Savoy),who
him with
flattered
fpiracy, fpoke
drew up
Paris
7*rial
who
He
guilty
it
on
The
from
parliament of
his country
to
lofe
He
chamber.
his
in the parifh
of
St. Paul.
Baftille.
fo contrived, that
There
at his
was
It
and
his head,
his fcaffold
a platform
a daughter
was found
he walked to
death
to Biron,
dowry with
his fovereign,
The
it
his procefs.
as a
and
thofe of St.
in
Ger-
IT.
Francis de Bafiompierre,
marfTial of France,
nal Richlieuj
this
minifter caufed
him
enemy.
be fnut up
to
born April
2,
in the Baftille,
January 19,
till
1643,
at
to cardi-
and died
in 1646.
III.
In
1674,
the
in a fldrmifh,
fbme
letters
Cufpicion that he had treated with the Englilh for the furrender of
was
arretted
Baftille.
The
Havre-de Grace.
He
himfetf
hlmfelf.
not
arreft him,-
affailants,
The
"
"
<f
and that
The
trudi."
they
Rouen:
an attempt was
him on
kill
dead,
made
to
Per-
the fpot.
commiffioners, not being able to get any thing from him, told
knew
feffion
at'
Tuanderie is
La
difcovered
him,
fufficient..
La Tuanderie was
all
that they
were authorijed
They
Then
whole.
confeffed the
too credulous,
chevalier,
his
own con-
to
the
perfidious
C4
faid,
" they could not anfwer for it, but that they had hopes of obtaining it, and would go
n and folicit it." This they troubled themfelves little about, and condemned the. cri-
He
vember
His
27th, 1674.
trial
is
See
fcaffold,
by means of a
in the arfenal,
He
which looks
was beheaded on
No-
Memoires du Marquis de
alfo
IV.
The jefuits of
the college of Clermont, in the rue St. Jaques, Paris, having, this fame
'
XIV.)
performed by their
took care to
honour with
to
infert
invitation.
in
When
Thefe able
be
courtiers
ducting the king home, a nobleman in the train applauded the fuccefs of the tragedy.
Louis
of
faid,
this.
"
The
Do
you wonder
at
it ?
this is
my
college."
The jefuits
name of Jefus on
and
in the
on black marble,
two following
word
letters
verfes,
infcription
who was
was put up
in place
young
which he polled up
at night
on
fcholai
made the
The
jefuits did
not
fail
to be
ahum
non
colit ilia
ifle
The
Deum.
the
Sainte Marguerite,-
difcovered,-
taken
Several years
after,
Baftille.
In
*7P5*
who
heir to
his family,
all
on the
neceflity
remon-
The
liberty.
golden
mower which forced the tower of Danae, had the fame effect on the caftle of the Baftille.
The jefuits made a merit with the prifoner of the protection they granted him and this
man of rank, whofe family would have become extinct without the aid of the fociety,
;
did not
46
p.
to give
fail
them
M.
de Renneville's Preface,
48.
V.
The famous
lodged
afked for
He
prifoner,
Baftille
chamber
the
in
known by
himfelf known.
Vermandois,
man
pur fervir
refufed
down
fat
him
was
that he
in his prefence.
rife
to various conjectures.
the
Nothing was
make
name of
the
The
Count de
and greatly
la Valiere,
beloved by his father ; nearly of the fame age with the dauphin, but of a character very
oppofite to his
ear
becoming
far
one day,
as to give the
public, the
made
him with
for
him
that the
commandant of
the
ifle,
XIV. gave
point of a knife
was deceived ;
that a domeftic
The fame
name on
having difcovered
it,
Although
relates
that the
it
fomewhat
XIV.
the hiftorians
differently,
Annus
Literairts, Lettre
as
removed
author adds,
bottom of a
the
thought to
M. Clement
who wrote
to
Mars,
that the
make
his court
that the
and
poor wretch
before
remarks
him were
*,
yet
M.
de
ignorant of this
# Le: cinq
He
of him immediately,
thefe Secret
all
dead; and
but
fays,
his
as
citadel only to be
government of
being divulged.
He
this
obtain a
fact.
the
him
Sainte Marguerite
ifle
from
releafed
firft
in the fight
vifit to this
XCIX. du
unknown
prifoner at the
ifle
II.
Sainte
him
and
ftanding,
in a
he died at the Baftille in 1704, and was interred at night in the parifh of St. Paul.
The author of the Philtippics (M. de la Grange-Chancel) in his Lettre a M. Freron,
pretends that this prifoner was' the
at the fiege of
Duke of
reftlefs
M.
He
which
Sainte Marguerite,
M.
unknown
that this
in-
the tu-
to the defigns,
Secrets at the
who
M.
M.
end of 1683.
forming a party
after
of the
ifle
de la Grange-Chancel at
Duke of Monmouth,
man
king of England,
as admiral,
all
fpirit,
his oppofition,
later the
ftill
faid to
The
in
places
who was
Beaufort,
de Saintfoy af-
fon of Charles
in Dorfetfhire
IL
where
he was proclaimed king, and attacking the royal army, was defeated, taken, and brought
to
in the
in the
him
like
in perfon,
II.
and James
The
James
duke of Monmouth
he might do
tille *,
diat
it
II.
England
He
beheaded on
that an officer
cites
and remarks,
in order to give
to liberty,
his
kings of
II.
to be
at the time,
folid Dijfertation
on
regifter
this hiftorical
which
is
problem.
kept
This
in this depofitary,
jefuit
does not
in the iron
favour of
this
opinion
and
and
has written a
many probable
men
reafons in:
VI.
The depofitary in the Baftille contains many trunks of papers of the late Duke of
Vendome f, which relate, to his hiftory, and that of die wars of Spain, Italy, and Flanders.
*
The
jefuits, after
of conftiTcr to the
difcoveries
r
becoming
Baftille.
This
confeflbrs to kings., did not fail to place one of their fraternity in the poft
office,
of
little
in theirs a
Thus
it
means of making
became hereditary
in,
their fociety.
30,
Z.
&
1654,
was viceroy,
ders.
who was
up
firft
in a moift place,
Maries
fuf-
was
the Baftille,
in
his legatee,
trots
where they
time be decayed or
will in a ftiort
will
VII.
The
Sieur Vaillant, a virtuous prieft, but, unfortunately for himfelf, an appellant from
was kept
Some
in the
*(
had heated
much
The
Valliantifts.
fee himfelf
at the inftant
of
was
in
vexations he was
On
fenfe the
Having entered
the decorations,
refifts
then
act.
chimney took
and
tries
He
fire
as
and he ima-
fire,
re-
aufterities,
Elias.
Sunday
Long
who
had impaired
called for.
He
he, Vail-
took poneflion of
Help was
goes on
"
folitude
to hear mafs, he
but the
He
his
prophet Elias
his
but
Thefe people
prophet
really the
this prieft
in the Baftille,
and
undergo,
to
whirlwind
in a fiery
his tranflation
in writing to the
no
made
as before.
was
it,
to the ftaff-officers.
gined himfelf
that he
his brain.
expected to
Elias, lately
*c
were called
Baftille
enthufiaftical or
This fcene
for
VIII.
"
that
command
campaign
in Flanders.
7 12.
He
wkom
One
this
century.
Eugene and
the Imperialiits
and
in 1707,
he made a
returned three years afterwards into Spain, where he died at Vinaros, June 11,
He
he made
who was
left
no other
iffue
his legatee.
which
He
of gods."
He
commute my punifhment."
wretched by
his conftant
"
faid,
the parliament
One
harflinefs.
day,
favour,
fecretary,
whom
me
ac-
and
will
he made
fecretary,
this
judge
will
me
fhew
will
great court a mafs of coagulated blood, which had been thrown there through negli-
gence
after a
The
examination.
ftaffs.
When
vifiting
the
During
and made
Antoine,
concentrated
to conduct
Count Lally
The
" king
full
is
for
him
and to fpend
M.
next day,
of goodnefs,
M.
Pafquier as a
Soon
gagged.
whom
after,
drew out
confefied.
Count
He
in
May
At
criminal,
to
do
upon
you
"
The
length he
the
will declare
He
On
being per-
my
have miffed
compofed
himfelf,
blow."
and was
1766.
all
of them.
if
flight.
had collected
Lally
faid
wound very
was executed
Lally's family
of Biron, and
when he
hangman
charge to cany
in
pair of compafles
the
he had conceived an
you,
will
traitor,
The
it
tip-
of walking and
Pafquier,
and
in his
left
in.
the ribband of
The
him
till
window
to die Conciergerie,
averfion.
it
time, his relations drove about in a carriage towards the gate St.
this
in himfelf,
his execution.
and
to Charenton.
him back
was removed
refufed,
officers relieved
execution
in
He
his dignity.
He
firft
his order,
fit
his fenfes.
The
family was
lefs
Duke
earneft to
England,
M.
his
de Voltaire has
own
demned him.
who
lately publifhed
We
Count
trial,
in
in wjiich
he re -judges before
formations on the
as if
beyond every
thing,
and
who
this
old man,
and
fr reproaching
even
1
M.
fleet,
as far
back
them
at
This
is
years ftandingj
minds would revolt againft that iniquitous bafenefs, which takes ad-
in his juftification.
as the arret in
&c.
This
I' Europe,,
this
is
indeed the
afs's
1773.
S..
in
order
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