Principal Primary Sources

• Fifth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1823), Appendix, p.16; 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.27; Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p.26; 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.9

• Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.264; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.334; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.318; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XIX.365), p.285; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.328; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.293; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.295; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.290; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.289; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.314; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.299; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.285; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.192; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.193; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.194; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.195; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.210; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.224; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.226; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.227; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.218; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.257; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.267; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.270; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.273

• Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 1 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.1), p.491

• Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.10

• Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837, XXXII.659), p.28; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXII.217), p.36; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, V.177), p.158; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXIX.391), p.89; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Tenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXIV.207), p.132; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Eleventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXI.565), p.81; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twelfth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXV.1), p.81; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Thirteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1847-8, XXXVI.133), p.54; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1849, XXVI.93), p.39; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Sixteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.669), p.129; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Eighteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852-53, LII.113), p.40; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Twentieth Report (Parl. Papers, 1854-55, XXVI.1), p.72; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-third Report (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.69), p.21; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.153), p.14; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1862, XXV.5), p.22; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Southern District, Twenty-ninth Report (Parl. Papers, 1864, XXVI.1), p.21

Additional Primary Sources

• William White, History, Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire (Sheffield, 1850), p. 70.

Secondary Sources

• http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/councildemocracy/record_office/information_dalss/guide_sources/crime/prisons_in_devon.htm; W.J. Forsythe, A System of Discipline: Exeter Borough Prison, 1819-1863 (University of Exeter, 1983)