[49] Some interesting details are published by the French Prison Society on this head.
[50] How perfunctory was the performance of his duties by the ordinary may be gathered from the following chapter.
[51] See post, p. 491.
[52] ‘Dr. Forde’s Evidence,’ p. 56.
[53] ‘Memoirs of Mrs. Fry,’ i. 312.
[54] The Philanthropic Society is identical with the Farm School at Redhill, one of our most prosperous and best-managed reformatory schools at the present date. Mr. William Crawfurd, afterwards one of the first inspectors of prisons, was long an active member of the committee during the early days of the Society.
[55] See ante, cap. ii.
[56] ‘Buxton on Prison Discipline,’ 1818.
[57] This was the germ of the Ladies’ Committee, which existed down to 1878.
[58] ‘Buxton on Prison Discipline,’ p. 125.