Prison escapes 2
Recapture, and another escape !
The entry below from the Quarter Sessions records shows that the female prisoner of the previous page, who had escaped from Brecon Gaol, was later recaptured.
The gaoler's "additional sallary", however, was still at risk because of the escape of yet another prisoner.
Breconshire
Quarter Sessions
Epiphany 1760
Powys
County Archives
B/QS/O/4
This extract, from the Order Book of the Breconshire
Quarter Sessions, reads as follows:
"Ordered that the Sum of five Pounds be paid by the County
Treasurer to the Goaler (Gaoler) of the said County It
being at a former Quarter Sessions ordered not to be paid him
for having suffered one Elizabeth Thomas to Escape out
of the said Goal, but he having retaken her now it is ordered
to be paid him.
Ordered that the five Pounds additional Sallary allowed the Goaler
be struck off till he retakes William Hill a prisoner committed
to his Custody for Horse stealing unless cause shewn to the Contrary
the next Quarter Sessions."
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