Bridewell Royal Hospital:
Minute Books of the General Prison Committee
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12th July 1792 - 14th April 1802

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Bridewell
Hospital
At a Prison Committee Wednesday 12th Feby.
1794 .

Mr. Auditor General

Mr. Richard Till< no role > Granville Sharp< no role > Esqr . Wm. Waddington< no role > Esqr .

By the Calendar of the Prisoners there appeared to be

18 Men
3 Apprentices
3 House Apprentices
25 Women
2 Children
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Matron's Report of
Mary Lovegrove< no role > who
had refused to give her
Child Sustenance.The Matron having informed the Committee that Mary Lovegrove< no role >
who was committed on the 8th. Instant with her Child to be passed
had refused to give the Child reasonable sustenance tho' it had been
provided by the Matron who was fearful the Child would be starved
And likewise that she had been extremely abusive which upon
further inquiries appears to the Committee to be true

Order thereuponResolved that the said Mary Lovegrove< no role > be put in the Stocks
as a punishment for her misbehavior and afterwards to be confined
in a seperate Cell

And that her Child be taken from her and put under the care of the
Matron.

And the Committee now signed a letter to the Lord Mayor [..]
apprizing. his Lordship of the above circumstances.

Hemp difficult to be got

Two Engines for Spinning
Rope Yarn to be erectedThe Superintendant of the Prisons informed the Committee that he
found it very difficult to procure hemp for the Prisoners to beat, that
he was of opinion that it would answer very well to let them spin
Rope Yarn and the expences of erecting two of those Engines would
not be more than 30s/. Resolved that he be ordered to
purchase two of them and to put them up directly.




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