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  • The full title reads: 'County of Denbigh. Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Gaol, and Female Prison, at Ruthin, made at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, held in Denbigh, in and for the said County, On Tuesday, 4th Day of April, in the year of our Lord, 1826'.
'Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Gaol ...at Ruthin' (1826)
  • This 'Misconduct Book' provides details of offences committed by prisoners at Beamaris Gaol between 1847 and 1874. The names and ages of the offenders are noted, along with the date of the offence, the nature of the offence and the punishment. Two of the most common forms of punishment are shown on the first page of this Misconduct Book: prisoners who disobeyed prison rules would usually be confined to a solitary cell for a specified period and/or put on a diet of bread and water.
Beaumaris Gaol Misconduct Book, 1847-1874 [image 1 of 29]
The County Gaol, Monmouth, c. 1865
County of Denbigh: Prison Rules of the County Goal at Ruthin (Ruthin, 1870) [front cover, image 1 of 19]
  • This 'Visitors Book' lists the names of individuals who visited prisoners at Beaumaris Gaol between 1862 and 1878. The following pages show the names of those individuals who were allowed to visit Richard Rowlands, a prisoner who had been found guilty of the murder of his father-in-law at Llanfaethlu. Rowlands was sentenced to death and his public execution in April 1862 was the second and the last to be carried out at the new Gaol at Beaumaris. In the few days before he was hanged, Rowlands was allowed a number of visitors, including his close relatives and several ministers of religion who came to pray with him.
Beaumaris Gaol Visitors Book, 1862-78 [front cover, image 1 of 3]
  • This letter was sent by Robert Arthur Jones, surgeon at the County Gaol, Caernarfon, to the magistrates of the town. Jones refers to the proposed new dietary table at the gaol and the suggestion of Dr Briscoe, Inspector of Prisons for the Southern District, as to the need to increase the amount of meat which prisoners received in their soup.
Letter from Robert Arthur Jones, surgeon of the County Goal, Caernarfon, 27 May 1870 [image 1 of 3]