Draft entry. Folios 306-307. Letter from Thomas Marriott, Clerk to the Guardians of the Southwell Union to the Poor Law Board enclosing a return giving details of numbers of vagrants and trampers relieved during the week ending 19 December, 1846. The letter remarks that the guardians think that it gives too favourable a picture; it goes on to describe serious incidents of insubordination by vagrants in the Southwell Union workhouse. There have been 796 vagrants during November, December and January; four of them set fire to bedding in November; 12 were committed to prison for destroying their clothes; 18 broke up the wooden bedsteads and burned them ‘notwithstanding they had been supplied with a fire and with warm gruel as well as bread on account of the severity of the weather’. Six were in such a state of fever that they had to be kept in the Workhouse for some time and 2 are still there. 1 Feb 1848.
