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Rules and Regulations for the Government of His Majesty's Gaol at Horsham, by T. Partington, published 1824 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5420]

Lewes Castle the County Prison?, by Wm. Durrant Cooper, published 1858 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 10, article, p.213) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2095] & The Keep [LIB/500229] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Prisons in Sussex, by Wm. Durrant Cooper, published 1872 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 24, notes & queries, p.293) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2109] & The Keep [LIB/500242] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Wedded in Prison, by Maude Robinson, published 1925 (Swarthmore Press) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14700] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

West Sussex Quaker stories

Scottish Royal Arms, Naval Prison, Lewes, by W. H. G. [W. H. Godfrey], published August 1929 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. II no. 7, note, pp.214-215) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8951] & The Keep [LIB/500204] & S.A.S. library

Prisoners in the Civil War, by S.N.Q. Contributor, published August 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 3, note, pp.91-92) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

The Sussex County Gaol at Horsham, 1540-1845. I - Introductory: Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Gaol, by William Albery, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 5, article, pp.308-312) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

An 18th Century Woman Gaoler [Ann Smart], by Wray Hunt, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 6, article, p.393) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

The Sussex County Gaol at Horsham, 1540-1845. II - Sites of the First and Second Gaols at Horsham, by William Albery, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 6, article, pp.394-396) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

The Sussex County Gaol at Horsham, 1540-1845. III - The Sheriff's Covenant with the Gaoler. The Building of a new Gaol, by William Albery, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 7, article, pp.460-464) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

The Sussex County Gaol at Horsham, 1540-1845. IV - Houses of Correction & The Hard Case of Zephaniah Greenfield, by William Albery, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 8, article, pp.530-534) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

The Sussex County Gaol at Horsham, 1540-1845. V - Cruelty of the Laws of Debt; Eccentric Debtors and The County Bread, by William Albery, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 9, article, pp.580-584) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

The Sussex County Gaol at Horsham, 1540-1845. VI - A Model Gaoler; Gaol Fees; Complaints and Petitions of Debtors, by William Albery, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 10, article, pp.675-680) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

The Sussex County Gaol at Horsham, 1540-1845. VII - A Poet in the Gaol; Deaths of Debtors; Escapes of Felons, by William Albery, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 11, article, pp.742-746) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

The Sussex County Gaol at Horsham, 1540-1845. VIII - The Fourth and Last Gaol at Horsham; Its Construction and Administration; Its End, by William Albery, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 12, article, pp.804-810) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

The Royal Prisoner of Pevensey, by Scarlyn Wilson, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 6, article, pp.402-404) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

The Persecution of Sussex Quakers 1655-1690. I - The First Imprisonments at Horsham, by William Albery, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 8, article, pp.521-524) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

The Persecution of Sussex Quakers 1655-1690. V - The Last Quaker Prisoners, including William Penn, by William Albery, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 12, article, pp.787-791) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

Prisone Forte et Dure and Peine Forte et Dure , by Henry Bateson, published May 1933 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. IV no. 6, query, pp.187-188) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2203][Lib 8222][Lib 8861] & The Keep [LIB/500206] & S.A.S. library

Some Sussex Gaol Deliveries, by C. E. Snowden, published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 11, article, pp.695-697; no 12, pp.762-765) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500180]

Sussex Prisoners Aid Society: Report for the Year Ending 1944, published 1944 (pamphlet, Sussex Prisoners Aid Society) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 4147]

Mediaeval Sussex Prisons, by R. B. Pugh, published 1959 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 97, article, pp.69-81) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2182] & The Keep [LIB/500332] & S.A.S. library

The Hastings Gaoler's Murder, by Michael J. Burchall, published June 1979 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 1 no. 1, article, pp.10-17) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17603] & The Keep [LIB/501187] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

The story of John Murdock otherwise known as Joseph Williams

Gate Fever: Voices from a Prison, by James Campbell, published 1 May 1986 (ix + 179 pp., London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson & Littlehampton Book Services Ltd., ISBN-10: 0297788566 & ISBN-13: 9780297788560) accessible at: British Library

James Campbell, Edinburgh Review editor, was given a unique opportunity to spend several months in prison, (though he went home at the end of each day) with a cell of his own to which, he made it known, anyone could come to talk, to just sit or raise any matter that might be troubling him. "While I never forgot that I was dealing with him the law had deemed a criminal, I always recognised him as a man first and an outlaw second," says Campbell. This is a very intimate study of prisoners and prison life and one that gets deep into the system under which those who do wrong are meant to be punished for their sins and sent back to the world, redeemed.

Gate Fever: Voices from a Prison, by James Campbell, published 1987 (192 pp., London: Sphere, ISBN-10: 0722123264 & ISBN-13: 9780722123263) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Hastings gaol records / prisoners committed 1832-1841, published 1990 (iv + 58 pp., PBN Publications, ISBN-10: 187138415X & ISBN-13: 9781871384154) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Hastings gaol records: keeper's commitment book, 1842-1849, published 1991 (v + 62 pp., PBN Publications, ISBN-10: 1871384257 & ISBN-13: 9781871384253) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Lady of the Rhododendrons, by Thea Valentine, published July 1991 in Midhurst Magazine (Volume 3 Number 4, article, pp.25-26, Summer 1991) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15967]

Lively account (1907) of the trial of Ms Pullen who was found drunk under a vicarage rhododendron bush! She was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.

The Spanish Prisoner, by Mrs Gwen May, published June 1994 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 2, article, pp.76-77) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Extract from the diary of George Philcox (1903-1983)

The Cross Between Thieves - repairing broken lives, by David Powe and Gillian Powe, published 4 November 1996 (192 pp., London: Marshall Pickering, ISBN-10: 0551030372 & ISBN-13: 9780551030374) accessible at: British Library

The dramatic story of the conversion of hundreds of prisoners in one of the UK's largest and busiest remand prisons in Lewes, Sussex. David Powe is the Anglican chaplain of Lewes Prison and his wife Gillian recounts the stories of the prisoners who are finding freedom in the least likely of places.

Prisoner of the Kaiser, by Peter Cox, published December 2004 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 16 no. 4, article, pp.151-153) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508837] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The WWI story of Arthur Henry Fitt (1890-1954) of the 3rd battalion Royal Sussex Regiment who was the son of Gilbert Fitt (1858-1909) and Caroline Smith, and married Mary Ann Cooper (1887-1975) in 1912.

Report on the unannounced inspections of four short-term non-residential holding facilities : GatwickAirport, North Terminal Gatwick Airport, South Terminal London City Airport Dover Asylum Screening Centre : November 2004 - January 2005, by H.M. Chief Inspector of Prisons, published 2005 (48 pp., London: Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons)

Report on the unannounced follow-up inspections of three non-residential short-term holding facilities : Gatwick North, Gatwick South, Dover Asylum Screening Centre : July - August 2006, by H.M. Chief Inspector of Prisons, published c.2007 (38 pp., London: Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons, ISBN-13: 9781847261762)

Some prisoners who strayed, by Dominic Harper, published September 2007 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 17 no. 7, article, p.334) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508991] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

In Wandsworth prison in 1873 there were fourteen prisoners from Sussex.

Horsham Gaol and Gaolers: background and history to 1779, by Annabelle F. Hughes, published (no date) (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15397]

1832-1841 Hastings Gaol Records Commitments to prison, published (no date) by PBN Publications (Ref: PBN93, CD-ROM)