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Panopt Inquirenda 1790 &c

Glouceter Jail

Revd Mr Ferryman
"his many curious
inventions for securing
the cells
and wards view'd
by the D. of Glouceter
the Bsh &c
Times Sept. 16.
1790

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Beavor
Inquirenda

1

Cost of a double
gin-handed
spinning-wheel

2

Time it takes to
make a tolerable
?

3

Do spinner with
the two-handed
wheel

4

Sample of their
books of all sorts.

5.

Cost of their building.
including by
computation the original
part

6

Number it will
hold

7.

Books of last year
whether they could
send them to town
for J.B. to inspect?
Quere — Number
of different books.

8

Total amount
for Governors Salary

9

Whether maintenance
with him
includes cloathing
and washing &
physic?

9

Cost of the log-wood
cutting-mill and
log-beating mill.

10

Is there no inconvenience
from the
raining & snowing
or for want of windows?

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1

Melancanos

1

Expence on his
plans of a building
for 288 persons
—
24
—
264

Liverpool for 270
cost 28,000. Situation
good for happiness
—
of materials, bad for
contracting

Windows Form

Windows — Sash
or Casement —
Last Iron, Wooden
or none

Sash — on hinges
or up & down
Quasi Venetian to keep
out rain as well as
sun

4

difference of price
between Sash &
Window Shutter

5

Windows Shades

Cheapest shades
to keep out Sun
in Chapel time
Qu. whether necessary,
the congregation
being at such
a distance

6

Plans & Estimates

Plans with the
Estimates of the
Jails he has built

7

Beevor

Weaving whether
tried yet? (as per
page 92) — if so
in what time how
much work has
been done — progress
of the work & the
value for sale.

8

Stories
Number

Whether any thing
would be saved by
adding two more
stories?

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II

Melancanos

Windows Height

9

Height of the windows necessary
to make the thorough
light—sufficient
to exhibit
the prisoner, & answer
the purpose of
the Chapel.

Windows Iron Sash

10

If no glass there
must be bars
to prevent escape:
therefore it is only
the expence of glass —

But then there
must be a means
of fastening the
casements so that
the prisoners may
not be able to
force them — at
least without great
noise.

Windows Height

10

Would not a
small hole with
a single pane
towards the feet do?
suffice?

—

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Chapel Number

1

No of persons
the Central Area
Laid out the Lodge
20 foot diameter
would hold
exclusion of
the pulpit &
Clerks' desk

Flues Kitchen

2

Kitchen Chimney
— in cold
weather to be stopped
and the
smoak conducted
laterally by
a flue.

Flues

3

So the fires
in the Lodge.

Flues

4.

Qu. the places
for the flues?

See J.B. Decr 7
Import tax whether
it extends to
10 1/2 from England.
26 1/2 from Ireland.

2. Island plan ?

3

Dimensions narrow

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Beevor

II

Earnings—
the prisone
share in the

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Date_1	1790	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-10, 1-8
Box	157	Main Headings	panopticon
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