Catalogue description Folio(s) 130-132. Two memoranda concerning the proposed employment of convicts. The...

Folio(s) 130-132. Two memoranda concerning the proposed employment of convicts. The first [folios 130 and 132] relates to a request from William Morton Pitt, and the magistrates of Dorset, for convicts to be 'employed in labour'. Justice Buller approves and the plan has been used in Oxford [Oxfordshire]. A list of convicts in gaol at Dorchester is given under headings of name, age, offence, date of offence, and sentence: Ann Hodge, William Mathews, Mary Parsons, Joseph Holmes, James Boswell alias James Clarke, and William Baker. Annotated by the Home Secretary that application should be made to the Judge. The second [folio 131], dated April 1791, lists instructions for the treatment of convicts Anne Hodge alias Anne Miller, James Boswell alias James Clarke, William Baker, William Mathews, Joseph Holmes, Edward Edwards, Mary Parsons, N Kearley, Diana Myell and Jane Bolton.