Bedford
County Gaol
County Gaol
GAOLER, Thomas Howard
Salary, none.
Fees, Debtors, Felons £0: 17: 4
Tranfports, If only one £6: if two £5 each: all above two, £4 each.
Licence, for Beer.
PRISONERS
Allowance, Debtors, two quartern-loaves a week each.
Felons, two halfpeck-loaves a week each.
Garnifh, Debtors, £0: 5 : 0
| Number of | Debtors | Felons &c. |
| 1773 | 5-10 | 6-9 |
| 1776,Feb 12, | 8 | 5 |
CHAPLAIN, Rev. Mr. Llyod
Duty Sunday and Thursday
Salary, £20
SURGEON, Mr. Gadfby.
Salary, £12 for the Gaol and Bridewell
In this Prifon there is a day-room for Debtors, whish is ufed as a Chapel, and three or four lodging rooms: for Felons, two day-rooms, one for men, the other for women, without fire places: two dungeons, down eleven fteps, and often very damp. The ftraw, for which the County allows the Gaoler £5 a year, is not on the floors, but on the frames or bedfteads. On application, the Juftices allow in winter coals both to Felons and Debtors. The court-yard is common to both, and fmall. No apartments for the Gaoler.
CLAUSES of the Act againft Spirituous Liquors are not hung up. When I was Sheriff, I was culpably ignorant of that Act. No Infirmary. About twenty years ago the Gaol-Fever was in this Prifon: fome died there, and many in the town; among whom was Mr. Daniel the Surgeon, who attended the Prifoners. His Succeffor, Mr. Gadfby, judicioufly changed the medicines from Sudorifics (generally ufed before) to Bark and Cordials: and a Sail-Ventilator being foon after put up, the Gaol has been free from the Fever almoft ever fince.
FEES on a printed paper, figned by the late Gaoler, as follows:
| ALL Perfons that come to this place, either by
warrant, commitment, or verbally; muft pay before difcharg'd, fifteen
shillings and four pence, to the Gaoler, and two fhillings to the
Turnkey. T. RICHARDSON |
COUNTY BRIDEWELL AT BEDFORD
CONSISTS of three rooms on the ground-floor : no fire-place: a fmall court-yard: no water acceffible to the Prifoners - Keeper's Salary £30: No Fees.
1776, Feb 13, Prifoners 3
