Punishment of women 4
An infant in the House of Correction
Another example taken from the records of the Quarter Sessions refers to a very young child incarcerated with her mother in prison in Brecon in 1771. As with the previous example, their plight was recognised with the granting of money to 'the Mistress of the House of Correction' to sustain them.
Breconshire
Quarter Sessions
Michaelmas 1771
Powys
County Archives
B/QS/O/4
This extract, from the Order Book of the Breconshire
Quarter Sessions, reads as follows:
"House of Correction.
Margaret Gregory and a Female Infant of the Age of about three
Months being Committed to the House of Correction and the said
Margaret being unable to labour to support herself It is ordered
that the County Treasurer do pay to the Mistress of the said
House of Correction the sum of twelve shillings for the support
of the said Margaret and her Child for Six Weeks being the Time
of her Confinement together with two Shillings Costs of the Motion."
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