| Description Of Item | Eight illegible handwritten pieces on laws relating to lunatic asylums, from the collection of Thomas Laycock. One of the pieces has a cutting pasted on it, concerning a man who was a lieutenant in the Madras Infantry, who had been drinking in excess and begun begging. Details how he has been in jail or insane asylums the last twenty years and that his friends had attempted to confine him permanently in a lunatic asylum but couldn’t get the requisite medical testimony. |