the keeper of a gaol or prison. Sheriffs are to make such gaolers for whom they will be answerable; but if there be any default in the gaoler, an action lies against him for an escape, &c., yet the sheriff is most usually charged; 2 Inst. 592. Where a gaoler kills a prisoner by hard usage, it is felony; 3 Inst. 52. No fee shall be taken by gaolers, but what is allowed by law, and settled by the judges, who may determine petitions against their extortions, &c. 2 Geo. II. c. 22.