Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	House of Correction, Kendal
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	House of Correction
locality:-	Kendal
civil parish:-	Kendal (formerly Westmorland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	gaol
locality type:-	prison
coordinates:-	SD51159325 (about)
1Km square:-	SD5193
10Km square:-	SD59
evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 4)  placename:-  House of Correction
source data:-	Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38)  placename:-  House of Correction
source data:-	Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-	Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.   goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1806 p.103  "[Mr. Nield's Remarks on Cumberland &c. Gaols.]" "..." "KENDAL, WESTMORELAND. Gaoler, Miles Hayton, salary 30l.; and one fourth of the prisoners earnings. Felons fees and garnish abolished; debtors fees, 2s. 4d. on being liberated. Allowance none. Any debtor arrested by process issuing out of the borough court, is allowed 6d. a day, after three court days; a court is held every three weeks. Allowance to felons 4d. a day. Chaplain, Rev. Mr. Briggs, salary 10l. Duty, Sunday afternoon. Surgeon from the dispensary when wanted. For the conveyance of transports 1s. per mile." "Remarks: This is the town gaol and bridewell, and judiciously situated on an eminence a little way out of town. Debtors have a spacious airy court 28 yards by 12, with pump water, and six sizeable rooms, with sash windows, and fire-places to four, airy and clean; they open into a lobby near 5 feet wide; for the use of these rooms the debtor pays nothing if he finds his own bed; but if the keeper furnishes one, he is paid 8d. a week for a chaff-bed, and 1s. a week for a feather-bed; two lie together. Men felons court, (which opens into the debtor's yard) is 10 yards by 7, with a day-room and a fire-place in it, and on the ground floor are 4 sleeping cells with vaulted roofs about 10 feet by 9 each, lighted and ventilated by an aperture in the door, 12 inches square; iron grated. Straw on a wood bedstead, a blanket and a rug. Upstairs is one room, 8 feet square. Women felons have a separate court in front of the building, 12 yards by 10, 4 sleeping-rooms about 8 feet square, and 2 work-rooms, in one of which a woman was weaving, and in the other a woman spinning; one room with a single loom in it, at which a man was weaving. The looms are humanely sent from the workhouse, for the use of the prisoners during confinement; and each prisoner is allowed three fourths of his earnings for their maintenance, and the other fourth to the keeper. there was one woman in solitary confinement, whose employment and support depended wholly on her friends. there is a very neat chapel, which has 2 separate doors for entrance, with a folding screen in the middle, so that the women can neither see or be seen by the men. Every part of this gaol is well supplied with water. the act for the preservation of health, and clauses against spiritous liquors, conspicuously hung up. The gaol very clean. Prisoners, 3rd November 1801, debtors, 2; felons, &c. 7; lunatics,"
evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag 1806
source data:-	goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1806 p.104  "3. 1802, Sept. 25th, debtors, 3; felons, &c. 4 men, 3 women; lunatic 1."
evidence:-	old text:- Capper 1808
source data:-	Gazetteer, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, compiled by Benjamin Pitts Capper, published by Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808; published 1808-29.   goto source "[Kendal] ... has a new house of correction with cells underneath. ..."

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