Description: Prison Accommodation Committees: Report of the Committee (1875), and reports of the Governor (1874-1878) and chaplains (186901877)

Description: Report, apparently from Governor of Maidstone prison (1843) 

Description: Annual returns of the Keepers of the two Gaols to the Secretary of State under the Acts of George IV and Victoria

Description: Writ to Gaoler to produce prisoners

Description: Reports of Visitors to the Gaol

Description: Maidstone Prison. Kent Gaol Bill, and correspondence of Lord Sydney.

Description: Correspondence on the new Gaol at Maidstone, on the Gaol Bill, petitions for building the new Gaol, and number of internees for various offences.

Description: Papers concerning the erection of a new County Gaol, consisting of the resolutions made by representatives from most parishes concerning the establishment of a Committee

Description: Overseers - circular letter on behalf of Lord John Russell for a return of number of wives and children paupers committed to gaol under Poor Law Amendment Act

Description: Correspondence, returns of prisoners, and Mayor's reports regarding the Gaol, including a letter from Whitehall requesting a return of persons committed under the Vagrant Laws 

Description: Prison documents (West Kent). Includes dietary tables, memorial of the School Master at the Gaol (concerning a pay rise).

Description: Estimate for Prison for females at Maidstone 

Description: Prison Accommodation Committees: Minutes and reports

Description: Miscellaneous papers. Including statements of prison establishment, 1852-4, and printed papers about the enlargement of the gaols, 1844-6

Description: Agreements for maintenance of prisoners of other authorities

Description: Sessions papers, including agreement with Canterbury for maintenance of prisoners

Description: Notice of termination of agreement with Dover for maintenance of prisoners

Description: Miscellaneous business, including theft of blankets from Maidstone gaol, alleged perquisite of staff; turnkey building boat; draft resolution of Committee of Enquiry [? of Quarter Sessions] into grave allegations.

Description: Documents relating to the proposed new Gaol at Maidstone, and Court of General Sessions for Kent. Also, copies of magistrates' resolutions, some being from East Kent. Also, copy of Maidstone Journal containing several advertisements relative to the proposed Gaol (1810-1813). 

Description: Memorial to Romney by landowners against proposed Gaol (c.1810), and resolution against new Gaol by Chatham Guardians of the Poor (1812) 

Description: Correspondence surrounding the building of the new Gaol and Court House at Maidstone, including opinion of Counsel, animosity between East and West Kent etc

Description: Allocation of cost of Gaol between landlords and tenants, discussion of various points of Bill

Description: To Romney from Inspector of Prisons. Not satisfied with cells at Maidstone and Canterbury.

Description: Printed copy of petition of supporters of Bill presented to House of Commons for a new Kent Gaol 

Description: Newspaper cuttings on new County Gaol at Maidstone (5 June 1812, 21 July 1812) 

Description: Copy letter from the Warden's office at Maidstone Gaol to H. Hobhouse, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Home Office concerning returns of Prisoners at Maidstone Gaol

Description: The Kentish Gazette. Contains question and answer regarding the petitions for the new Goal

Description: Includes agreement for maintenance of prisoners in the County Prison in Maidstone. 

Description: Order to contract for the maintenance of borough prisoners at the County gaol, Maidstone

Description: Warrants constituting and appointing Convict Prisons etc. Places for confinement of offenders under sentence or order of Penal Servitude: Maidstone Prison (part) males only

Description: Letters to Romney on a variety of County business, principally from H. A. Wildes, Clerk of Peace. Conveyance of prisoners to Maidstone by rail and omnibus. 

Description: Prison Rules laid down regarding Visiting Committees, juvenile offenders, and generally correspondence from Home Office

Description: Includes report of a Joint Committee of Visiting Justices to the County Prisons (index at front) 

Description: Rates and accounts concerning the new gaol.

Description: Gaol rate book containing assessments made for the building of gaol and court house at Maidstone

Description: County rates, assessments and accounts for Gaols at Maidstone and Canterbury (microfilm) 

Description: Rates for building the new Gaol, House of Correction and Court Houses at Maidstone, as walked by the by the Vicar and the impropriator 

Description: Abstract of Accounts, West Kent: Index at front; includes expenses of building new Gaol

Description: Receipts, treasurer's accounts and accounts submitted by the Architect and contracting tradesmen for work done at the new Gaol (the different contractors are catalogued individually). Also journal of payments and works ledger.

Description: Payments and (printed) abstracts of expenditure on account of the county prison at Maidstone with schedules of bills paid and returns and classifications of prisoners

Description: Possible investment in Oxford County stock issued for building gaol and court house. Correspondence of Romney with Robert Marsham.

Description: Accounts for new gaol at Maidstone, apparently private notes by Romney, and Accounts and vouchers, including account for gaol expenses at Maidstone

Description: Keepers journal - 'The Account of the Punishment of Prisoners Misbehaving thareselves'. From 1822, it continues for the new Gaol at Maidstone, and follows on from PC/M2

Description: Prison dietaries

Description: Gaolers journal. Includes a register of duties performed, punishments and special occurrences, or log book, referring to debtors as well as felons.

Description: Licences for Chaplains at Maidstone County Prison

Description: Application to be appointed Catholic Chaplain to the Prison

Description: Maidstone prison Chaplain, letters to Romney and others

Description: From H. (?Fletcher) at Government House, Ottawa. Recommends Legge as Governor of Maidstone Prison.

Description: Governorship of Maidstone Prison. Letters to Romney, note of financial irregularities. Also, Governor's appeal against dismissal, applications for post, one being from Deputy, offering to serve at reduced salary. 

Description: Sketches taken in Maidstone Court by Captain Wilson, Governor of the Gaol

Description: Enquiries concerning alleged irregularities on the part of the Gaol Keeper, and copies of evidence. Keeper's defence, reports of Visiting Justices and investigating committee.

Description: Convict book - register arranged annually by Sheriffs of all convicts

Description: Prison registers (from Canterbury and Maidstone prisons, but sometimes not clear which prison for each book)

Description: Draft return of prisoners committed for trial at the General Sessions at Maidstone in 1826 

Description: Gaol delivery and papers relating to the maintenance of Lydd prisoners in the County Gaol 

Description: Overseers' correspondence regarding prisoners in Maidstone Gaol requesting assistance 

Description: Commission of Gaol delivery for Kent

Description: Letter regarding prisoners at Maidstone Gaol 

Description: Lease of part of forecourt of Sessions House, Maidstone, used as a garden by Prison Chaplain

Description: Maidstone Prison and courtyard.

Description: The building of the new Gaol at Maidstone. Contents include plan of the land to be purchased for the new Gaol, accounts to Daniel Alexander for design and to other contractors, investigations into fraud relating to the contracting, petitions against the new gaol

Description: The building of the new gaol at Maidstone. Plans.

Description: West Kent Gaol at Maidstone. Plans connected with alterations to the manufactory, the building of the female Prison, and erection of a treadmill.

Description: West Kent Gaol at Maidstone. Title deeds of site purchased for Gaol and Sessions House.

Description: Extracts from sessions orders about the building of a new Gaol, with architects' reports, orders for payment, and reports of the Committee investigating the accounts. Also, plans of possible sites.

Description: The building of the new Gaol at Maidstone. Copies of contracts for constructional work. At end, reversed, extracts of orders for payment. 

Description: The building of the new Gaol at Maidstone. Architect's reports

Description: The building of the new Gaol at Maidstone. Tenders for constructional work with some specifications of work to be done.

Description: The building of the new Gaol at Maidstone. Contracts, bonds, specifications, plans

Description: The building of the new Gaol at Maidstone. General plan of the site of the Gaol, showing line of former Boxley Road and former field boundaries. 

Description: Ledgers of County Surveyor, Martin Bulmer. Bulmer did work for the county, including on the county prisons.

Description: Plans of the Prison Chapel and the female Prison, and of an exchange of land near the Coach and Horses 

Description: Minutes of the Joint Committee for the supply of water to the Gaol of Maidstone and the Asylum at Barming 

Description: Contracts for alterations and additions to the gaol

Description: Proposed additions and alterations to the West Kent Gaol, including to the treadmill, female prison, hospitals, laundry, manufactory, chapel (mainly plans)

Description: Romney denotes profits from sand at Penenden Heath, used in building prison, to relief of poor, 1817, much sand removed improperly, Daniel Alexander, architect of prison, unsuccessfully requests conference before trial, 1819

Description: Acquisition of site for Gaol in Maidstone

Description: Copies of documents relating to new Gaol and Court House. Including sketch plans of two alternative sites, Sessions orders, and reports and correspondence.

Description: Miscellaneous letters to Romney from H. A. Wildes. Heating apparatus in prison. 

Description: Medway Navigation Company, and supply of water to Maidstone Asylum and Gaol

Description: Precepts for and verdicts of juries of enquiry fixing the purchase prices of various pieces of land in Maidstone bought by the Justices for the site of the Gaol and Sessions House, with jury lists (Easter 1811) 

Description: Engraving, Sketch of the West Kent County Goal [sic], Bridewell, and court houses at Maidstone. From a plan by Mr [D A] Alexander. With estimate for building. [Prison built 1810-17.]

Description: Bishop Walsh's photograph album of Kent churches. Includes interior of Chapel at Maidstone Gaol.

Description: Maidstone - photographs of High Street, College of St Mary and All Saints, County Gaol, and Museum

Description: Maidstone Prison greetings card

Description: Engraving of Maidstone Prison

Description: Includes reference to visiting Maidstone Gaol (23 July 1828)