[Prison diet card for Debtors, Bankrupts and Prisoners Under Punishment.]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miscellaneous Print Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Class of 1939 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debt, Imprisonment for--Great Britain.

Debt, Imprisonment for.

Prisons--Food service--Great Britain.

Prisons.

Prisons--Food service.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 12 x 16 cm

Other Title:

Miscellaneous Print Collection. box 1 no 55 PU

Place of Publication:

Devizes : H. Bull, Printer, [1853?]

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Text begins: For Debtors in prison refusing or neglecting to file the schedule of their property when ordered to do so by the Court, as provided by the 36th section of the 1st and 2nd Vict. cap. 110.

"Clearly a working document which may be a fragment, this Victorian diet regulations card details daily diet for the various classes of prisoner detained at her majesty's pleasure. Debting and bankrupt prisoners might expect 1.5 lbs. of bread, 2 pints of gruel daily, 1 pint of soup three times per week, and three ounces of meat without bone and 0.5 lb. of potatoes four tiems per week. Whereas those under punishment for breaches of Prison rules might expect for the first and second days 1 lb. of bread, 1.25 for the third and 1.5 for subsequent days."--vendor's description.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1939 Fund.

RBC copy has ms. inscription "Feb. 23rd 1853."

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2017 from Alastor Rare Books.

OCLC:

1048880849