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    The County Gaol, situated in North Parade, Monmouth, Wales, was Monmouthshire's main prison when it was opened in 1790. It served as the county jail of...
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    available to the authorities. Capital offences were dealt with at Monmouth County Gaol, as were whippings and sentences of hard labour. Although a police...
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    located opposite the gatehouse of the Monmouth County Gaol. The Monmouth County Gaol (pictured below), or The Old Gaol, is a listed building. It was designed...
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    from 1860 showing Toll house and Monmouth County Gaol with North Parade House on the right. "North Parade, 12, Monmouth;North Parade House (20492)". Coflein...
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    in Shrewsbury. He also altered the Newgate Gaol in Dublin and designed the Limerick and Monmouth County Gaol. Blackburn is also credited with the design...
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    Henry Vincent (section Gaol)
    arrested and imprisoned at Monmouth County Gaol for making inflammatory remarks. He was eventually tried at Shire Hall, Monmouth on 2 August 1839 and sentenced...
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    Mowbray Years". City and County of Swansea. Retrieved 3 April 2016. "Swansea Castle: 1400 – More Welsh rebels". City and County of Swansea. Retrieved 3...
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    the establishment became the Monmouthshire County Gaol, superseding the Monmouth County Gaol in Monmouth. It retained that role until 1922 when it closed...
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    now unites the two lounges downstairs is said to be the door of Monmouth County Gaol. The building has been a Grade II listed building since 15 August...
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  • Reading, where the county gaol and house of correction were situated; summer assizes were held at Abingdon, which was the site of the county bridewell. Knights...
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    William Jones (Chartist) (category Monmouth, Wales)
    after the rising. He was imprisoned in Monmouth County Gaol and placed on trial at the Shire Hall in Monmouth. He was sentenced to death for High Treason...
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  • Head Shire Hall Great Castle House Market Hall Monmouth Priory St Mary's Priory Church Monmouth County Gaol Rolls Hall Judges' Lodgings Dispensary Methodist...
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    Square. The proposed site, which had been previously occupied by the Monmouth County Gaol, was bought from the Duke of Beaufort for £250. The foundation stone...
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    inscription reads: HENRY V, BORN AT MONMOUTH, AUG 9TH 1387. The carved birth date is now recognised as incorrect. The County Gaol was located a short distance...
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  • horse-drawn wagons to carry coal from the mines) is built at Blaenavon. Monmouth County Gaol is built. Calvinistic Methodist clergyman Thomas Charles of Bala...
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    Assizes (redirect from Gaol delivery)
    cases. The commission of gaol delivery required the justices to try all prisoners not yet tried by judges held in the gaols. Historically, all justices...
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  • built by lawyer John Dodd. The bridge at Warwick Castle, England. Monmouth County Gaol, UK, designed by William Blackburn. May 4 – Archibald Simpson, Scottish...
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    Bloody Assizes (category Monmouth Rebellion)
    August 1685 in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion in England. There were five judges: Sir William Montague (Lord...
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    Monnow Bridge (category Buildings and structures in Monmouth, Wales)
    bridge played a significant, if ineffectual, role in defending Monmouth. It also served as a gaol, a munitions store, a lodge, an advertising hoarding, a focus...
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    Monmouth Poor Law Union was formed on 11 July 1836 in Monmouth, Wales In 1835, Monmouth Workhouse, a parish workhouse, was located in Weirhead Street...
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    Colonel Tye (category People from Monmouth County, New Jersey)
    New Jersey. Titus Cornelius was born into slavery in Colt's Neck, Monmouth County, New Jersey and originally owned by John Corlies, a Quaker. Corlies'...
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    maintaining county gaols and houses of correction. During the 19th century penal reformers campaigned against the often primitive conditions in gaols, and under...
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    and the Forest of Dean to the west; it is sited 19 miles (31 km) from Monmouth, 33 miles (53 km) from Bristol, and 17 miles (27 km) east of the border...
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    The Monmouth town walls and defences comprise the defensive system of town walls and gates built in Monmouth, Wales between 1297 and the early part of...
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    cxvi) Monmouth Roads Act 1755 (28 Geo. 2. c. 31) Monmouth Roads Act 1777 (17 Geo. 3. c. 96) Monmouth Roads Act 1793 (33 Geo. 3. c. 169) Monmouth Roads...
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    Parade section of Monk Street in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales. The grade II listed houses were designed by noted Monmouth architect and builder George Vaughan...
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    Wooldridge was hanged at Reading Gaol for the murder of his wife. The execution inspired Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol. 19 July 1899: Mary Ansell...
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  • confer with the busones of the county. In these busones we can see the persons whose names appear in the commissions of gaol delivery, oyer, and terminer...
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    spelling of Brighton. East County Dock (Rotherhithe) Act 1811 (51 Geo. 3. c. clxxi) Aberdeen Courthouse, City and County Offices and Gaol Act 1814 (54 Geo. 3...
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    arrest of Chartist leader Henry Vincent and his imprisonment at the gaol in Monmouth, meant that the authorities expected there might be a riot. The sheer...
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