Principal Primary Sources

• Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.28

• The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p.47; Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1824), Appendix, p.73; Eighth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1832), Appendix, p.25

• Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.159; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.149; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.147; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.96; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.97; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.107; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.111; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.113; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.116; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.115; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.137; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.131; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.143; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.144

• Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.73

• Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.14

• Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 4 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXV.1), p.2157

• Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.30

• Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern, Third Report (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXXI.1), p.80; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.565), p.37; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXI.1), p.121; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.227), p.69; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Midland and Eastern District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.1), p.6; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.291), p.133; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.461), p.102; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain II. Northern and Eastern District, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.1), p.50

Additional Primary Sources

• William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire (Sheffield, 1856), p. 290

Secondary Sources

• http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1098085&sort=4&search=all&criteria=boston,%20lincolnshire&rational=q&recordsperpage=60&p=1&move=p&nor=584&recfc=0