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Source: THE GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE BEVERLEY TOWN AND LIBERTY GAOL. Timothy Lundie, gaolor and sergeant at mace: salary 141. 4s. Fees, debtors, 4s.4d Garnish, 1s. Chaplain, none. Surgeon, none appointed; when one is wanted he is sent by the Mayor. Allowance to debtors, none, except certificated as paupers, and then they have the same allowance as felons, viz 6d a day. For debtors there are three rooms; one below well furnished , for which the gaolor charges 2s.6d per week, and a small one, where, if the debtor finds his own bed he pays 6d a week; the third room is upstairs where the keeper furnishes a bed at 1s.6d a week. One small courtyard for all description of prisoners, with a work shed in it, but no water; the gaolor fetches it from over the way. Men and women felons have each a separate day room upstairs and the women’s sleeping rooms adjoins, all very offensive for want of sewers, a half tub being substituted for that purpose. Men criminals sleep in two dirty cells below, about four yards square, with each a privy in it, badly ventilated, having only a small iron grated window in each. The town allows straw in ticking, two blankets and a rug. Employment, pounding tile-sherds, for which they receive 6d a bushel. A table of fees payable to the attorneys and clerk of the Court, and figured by the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen, is hung up, and like-wise a table of the ancient customs. Debtors are committed to this prison by the Court of Requests as well as those by actions in the Court of King’s Bench and in the Town court. Neither the Act for the preservation of health or the clauses against spirituous liquours are hung up. Three years since the gaol had been whitewashed. Prisoners, 25th August 1802, debtors none; felons three. BEVERLEY HALL GARTH for Debtors, in the liberty of St John of Beverley, is a Manor-gaol, held by Lord Yarborough, has over the hall five rooms (16 feet by 10), two of which have fire places, some of these have brick, and others boarded floors. Chaplains, none, or any religious attentions. Surgeon, none. Allowance, none whatever. Debtors pay 1s.8d each per week for a bed furnished by the keeper, William Lundie, who has no salary; fees 2s1d; garnish 1s. No court. No water accessible to prisoners. Neither the Act for preservation of health or clauses against spirituous liquors are hung up. There are said to be 118 towns or parts of towns that are within the liberty of St John of Beverley, or Beverley Hall Garth. Prisoners, 25th August 1802, none. The keeper of Hall Garth has, together with the prison, about three acres of ground for which he pays 12/. a year. He told me he was going to leave it, as all he had to depend upon was felling a little ale, and that, being in a bye place out of town, he was a great loser by it. The reason, he said, that he had no prisoners was, that the steward of the Court was only an attorney, and that he could not act without a barrister, which was too expensive, so that his gaol was neglected. That when he first came there, Mr Beatniff, barrister, was chief steward, and Mr Ramsay, attorney at law, deputy steward; that at that time he had many prisoners, and was doing very well, but Mr Beatniff being dead, and Mr Hall, the present chief-steward, not being a barrister, he very seldom had any prisoners. BEVERLEY HOUSE OF CORRECTION; George Plummer, gaolor; salary, 84/., fees and garnish abolished. Chaplain, none. Surgeon, Mr Gill; salary, none; makes a bill. Allowance, 6d a day. This prison adjoins the town hall; has on the ground floor three sleeping cells, about 9 feet by 6, and a dark room used by the military for the confinement of soldiers. On the two upper stories there are four sleeping cells about the same size, with a lobby 9 yards long, and 7 feet wide, for the prisoners occasionally to walk in. three cells below for vagrants. A small court yard, with a privy in it. No water accessible to prisoners. Two work rooms, one for men, the other for women. Two rooms set apart for infirmaries. The East Riding allows straw on plank bedsteads, and five chaldrons of coal yearly. The clauses against spirituous liquors are hung up, but not the act for preservation of health. Employment, spinning, and picking oakum, and pounding tile-sherds, but these two last articles, though so near to Hull, being difficult to procure, only one woman was at work, and she was spinning. Prisoners have the whole of their earnings, and it were to be wished the magistrates would not suffer a half tub or uncovered pail to be in each room, as it keeps them constantly offensive, and for which there can be little occasion as there is a sewer in the court yard. Prisoners, 25th August 1802, one felon; five for petty offences. HULL TOWN AND COUNTY GAOL, Robert Raines Baines, gaolor; salary, 100/. out of which he provides a turn-key; fees for debtors and felons, 7s.6d. each, and to the under-sheriff, 1s; garnish abolished. Chaplain, none; but the reverend Mr Bromley, Vicar of Holy Trinity, frequently attends. Surgeon, Mr Clarke, salary, 8/.8d. Allowance for conveying transports 1s per mile. Allowance to felons, 4d a day, and those debtors who are certificated as paupers, have the same allowance. This gaol is in a fine situation, just out of the town; and it would be a good one, if the turnkey’s lodge was re-built, and in front of the prison, and the boundary wall (at present only 13 feet 6 inches) raised 5 feet higher. Under the same roof with the turnkey’s apartments there is an oven and a bath, and a work room for debtors; which are most injudiciously built in the court yard, and near the prisoner wall, obstructing the keeper’s view, and seeming to invite escapes; hence four have been effected in ten years; felons are therefore prohibited the use of it. The ground floor of the gaol is occupied by the keeper, except one room for women convicts, which looks to the garden, where they can see and converse with the debtors. This might easily be prevented by sloping boards before the windows. On the East-side of the building is a court 42 feet by 17, and arcades, where the men felons pound tile-sherds, and on their discharge (if they have behaved well) receive a proportion of their earnings, which is regularly entered in a book. The women spin, and receive the whole they earn. The first story has a day room for felons, 22 feet by 16, with a fire-place, and five sleeping cells at the East end, 14 feet by 6, with arched roofs, lofty and well-ventilated, warm by the tube of a German stove, passing through each. In the centre is a square room (too small) with a reading desk in one corner, used as a chapel, where all the prisoners indiscriminately mix when divine service is performed. The West end has a day room for debtors, 22 feet 8 inches by 14 feet 4 inches, and a room for women felons before trial. The second story, East, has a day room 14 feet and a half square, and five sleeping cells, the size of those below, for felons before trial. In the centre is a day room 17 feet 9 inches by 13 feet 6 inches, where those committed for assaults are frequently confined to prevent their mixing with common felons; and the West end has three sleeping rooms for debtors, who pay for a single bed 1s.6d per week; if two sleep together, 1s.3d each. The third story consists of a day room, 21 feet 9 by 17 feet 6 inches, and four sleeping rooms for debtors, for three of which they pay as on the second story, and the fourth is for those who furnish their own beds and pay 6d per week. Water is at all times accessible to the debtors. Felons have their tubs or buckets filled with fresh water twice or three times a day, as occasion requires, as well as to cleanse the covered tubs which serve the purpose of sewer. Every criminal is allowed a plank bed-stead, a straw mattress, two blankets, and a rug. County clothing is like-wise provided for prisoners before trial; and their own ticketed, hung up and delivered to them on discharge. Every prisoner is washed in the bath before trial. Debtors, male and female, have one spacious court, 60 yards by 20, and many conveniences to work at their own trades and looms are provided for the manufactory of garters, laces, &c, for those who are of no trades and willing to work. In the depth of Winter the magistrates humanely order a bushel and half of coals per week to every room which is occupied and has a fire place. I found the prison clean in every part, well-ventilated and healthy; the Act for preservation of health and clause against spirits conspicuously hung up. Number of debtors, 1802, January 29th, seven. Felons, ten. August 25th, debtors, fifteen. Felons, seventeen. From the quantity of junk I saw in this town I am of opinion that constant employment in picking oakum might be furnished for every prisoner, if convenient work room were built. HULL BRIDEWELL, John Dunn, gaolor; salary 401/., a chaldron of coals, and a stone of soap. Chaplain, none, or any religious attention whatever. Surgeon, Mr Clarke, salary, 2/.2s., and makes a bill. Three cells below ground two of them dark and ill ventilated by a small iron grating, which looks to the narrow passage, the third has an iron grated window to the open air; in this four boys were pounding tile-sherds, for which they receive 4d per bushel. Each cell is about 10 feet by 9, to which the Corporation allows a plank bedstead, straw mattress, two blankets and a rug. The first floor has three cells, the same size; the upper story has one cell, a work room for spinning, and room for debtors. By the Act 2nd Geo. III. cap. 38. debtors from the Court of Conscience are sent hither or the common gaol for three Calendar months. A half tub in each room serves the purpose of a necessary. The whole prison very dirty, and no water accessible to the prisoners. Act fro preservation of health, and clauses against spirituous liquors, both hung up. Debtors, 25th August 1802, none. Criminals, eleven. THE FOLLOWING DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT ALSO APPEARED IN THE SAME MAGAZINE: At Beverley, Mr G. Plummer, chief constable for Hunsley Beacon, and master of the house of correction for the East Riding of Yorkshire. His death was occasioned by Francis Barcelona, a prisoner under his care, striking him on the left side of his head with a milk pot. Barcelona has since been committed to the castle of York, charged upon oath with the murder.
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