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Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..

Coldbath Fields Prison, London: view from the north west to the south east, with St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Engraving, 1798.

Middlesex House of Correction: male prisoners treading on the boards of a treadmill: in the foreground others sit resting. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1874, after M. Fitzgerald.

Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners are sitting in a room sewing large pieces of cloth. Wood engraving by H.H. after M. Fitzgerald.

Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners sitting on long benches untangling bundles of twine (picking oakum); a guard raises his hand. Wood engraving. after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.

The sinner encouraged to repentance: A sermon, preached at the opening of the chapel of the new house of correction, for the county of Middlesex, on Sunday, Sept.28, 1794, before the chairman of the sessions, and a committee of magistrates; and published at their reqest. With a prefatory address to magistrates in general, and to the magistracy of the county of Middlesex in particular. By Samuel Glasse, D.D. F.R.S. chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty, and one of His Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county.

The true state of the House of Correction for the County of Middlesex, fairly and candidly set forth / By a visiting magistrate.

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Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..

Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners sitting on long benches untangling bundles of twine (picking oakum); a guard raises his hand. Wood engraving. after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.

The true state of the House of Correction for the County of Middlesex, fairly and candidly set forth / By a visiting magistrate.

Coldbath Fields Prison, London: view from the north west to the south east, with St Paul's Cathedral beyond. Engraving, 1798.