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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of debts, &c. and subject to its authority, they had a gaol near the precinct of the monastery, within their borough …
A History of the County of Leicester
… in turn was rebuilt by John Johnson in 1793. 12 The old gaol was demolished in 1792, and William Firmadge was the … violent opposition, the question of building another gaol, and they actually accepted a plan from Firmadge, then … the problem was solved by the purchase of the county gaol 17 which stood a little farther up the road, at the …
A History of the County of Leicester
… letters of about 1655 from Quaker prisoners in the town gaol, one apparently having been sent there for refusing to …
A History of the County of Leicester
… this parish which opposed the erection of the new borough gaol in 1823, 98 and demanded an investigation into how the …
A History of the County of Leicester
… built in the same street in 1836. 92 A new county gaol, which provoked William Cobbett to make some strongly … the line of the present Welford Road between the existing gaol and Welford Place. The older route, from Welford to the … the line of the present Welford Road as far as the gaol, and then continued along the line of the present Oxford …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… imprisoned one John Balle, a famous preacher, in Maidstone gaol, for preaching heterodox notions. The rabble going …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… by the corporation in 1803 86 as a site for the county gaol, a building which is now used for a corn store. The … against the disuse by the county justices of the county gaol at Abingdon. 216 It was finally closed, however, in …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… 9 and in 1351 the King's Bench moved thither. 10 The gaol for the county and the forest of Bernwood was also kept … in considerable numbers. 17 Early in the 16th century the gaol and gaol 'pit' were adjacent tenements in the market-place. 18 …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… 137781, p. 176. Ibid.; a David of Aylesbury had viewed the gaol in 1182 ( Pipe R. 28 Hen. II [Pipe R. Soc.], 115). …
A History of the County of Essex
… the Essex magistrates in 1790 208 it consisted of a 'fore-gaol' (15' 10') for men and a 'back-gaol' (13' 11') for women. There were no chimneys and both …