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A book of knowledge : In four parts. : Part first. Shewing the nature of astrology, by the cælestial signs and planets. Measures of time movable terms, for 20 years, &c. Divers things necessary in trade and dealing, &c. To know the weather in all seasons of the year. Good and bad fortune as born under the several signs. The manner of resolving doubtful questions, relating to love, business, &c. Moles and marks in the body, their signification; dreams, their interpretation. : Part second, The wheel of fortune, resolving questions in astrology. Fortunate and unfortunate days throughout the year. To know the changing of the moon by the prime observations on New years day. : Part third. A treatise of physick, by the signs and planets. Observations in midwifery. Receipts for curing all diseases in men, women, and children. The art of cookery. The forms of writing bonds, bills, &c. Arithmetic in all its parts. Remedies for diseases in horses, cows, oxen, hogs, sheep, &c. : A perpetual almanack for ever. A complete tide table. An account of all the market days, roads and fairs in England and Wales. : Part fourth. The compleat gardiner, or the country-mans guide to good husbandry / Composed by Samuel Strangehopes.
Strangehopes, SamuelDate: [1700?]- Books
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The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies. Together with plain and full directions for administering them, and properly nursing the sick, where the advice of a physician is difficult to be procured. Also a Short Account of those Cases in which Bleeding and Blisters are really serviceable. By Hugh Smith, Apothecary, At the Chymical Warehouse, the upper End of Cheapside, leading into Newgate-Street, London. Where The Medicines herein recommended, are faithfully prepared in Chests, convenient for Families to take into the Country, and for those who use the Sea to take on Shipboard.
Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789.Date: [1770?]- Pictures
Clerkenwell House of Correction, London: top, the oakum-shed and bottom, the needle-room. Wood engravings after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.
Fitzgerald, Michael, active 1871-1891.Date: 1874Reference: 585000i- Books
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A book of knovvledge : In four parts. Part first; Shewing the nature of astrology by the cœlestial signs and planets. Measures of time. ...The manner of resolving doubtful questions, relating to love, business, &c. Moles and marks in the body, their signification. Dreams, their interpretation. Part second. The wheel of fortune, resolving questions in astrology. ... Observations on New-years-day. Part third. A treatise of phisick, by the signs and planets. Observations in midwifery. ... The forms of writing bonds, bills, &c. Arithmetick in all its parts. ... An account of all the market-days, roads, and fairs in England and Wales. Part fourth. The compleat gardiner, of the country-man's guide to good husbandry. Composed by Sam. Strangehopes.
Strangehopes, SamuelDate: 1696- Books
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The life and actions of Moll Flanders. Containing her birth and education in Newgate; her Ambition to be a Gentlewoman; her being taken into a Gentleman's Family; her being debauch'd by her Master's Eldest Son, and married to the Younger; her Marriage to her own Brother; her going over with him to, and settling in, Virginia; her Return to England; her Marriage to an Highwayman, who pass'd for a Person of Quality; her being reduc'd, and turning Thief; her taking some Plate from an House on Fire; her turning Informer; her robbing in Man's Clothes; A singular Adventure that happen'd to her at Bartholomew-Fair; her being apprehended, committed to Newgate, try'd, and cast for her Life; her obtaining Transportation; her meeting with her Quality-Husband in the same Condition; her being transported with him; her second Settlement, and happy Success in Virginia, and Settlement in Ireland; her Estate, Penitence, Age, Death, Burial, Elegy, and Epitaph.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1723]- Books
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People in prison : (England and Wales) / presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department by command of Her Majesty, November 1969.
Great Britain. Home Office.Date: 1969- Books
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The life, actions, and amours, of Ferdinando, Marquiss of Palleotti, lately executed at Tyburn, for the murther of his servant: Wherein are contain'd, The true Origin of that Ancient and Illustrious Family, highly ennobled both on his Father's and Mother's Side, (especially the latter) and the Reasons which might have induced the Government, had they so thought fit, to have changed the Execution of his Sentence into a more Honourable Punishment. Written by a gentleman that was conversant with him abroad, and during his abode here in England, and his Confinement in Newgate.
Gentleman that was conversant with him abroad (Ferdinando, Marquiss of Palleotti).Date: [1718]- Pictures
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Qui Hi alias Lieutenant Johnny Newcome on his death bed in prison, attended by his mistress and child and the doctor's assistant. Coloured aquatint by Quiz, 1816, after T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1816Reference: 11223iPart of: The grand master or adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan a hudibrastic poem in eight cantos.- Books
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A True and lamentable relation of the most desperate death of James Parnel, Quaker, who wilfully starved himselfe in the prison of Colchester : Together with the attestation of the chief majestrates of the town, and the coroner, signed with their owne hands, and by them desired to be made publique. As also his blasphemous letter to Doctor Glisson of the same town: and his answer returned thereunto. An example of admonition to those of his own faction, and may serve for horrour to all that shall peruse it.
Date: 1656- Books
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An accurate description of Newgate. With the rights, privileges, allowances, fees, dues, and customs thereof. Together with a parallel between the master-debtors side of the said prison, and the several sponging-houses in the county of Middlesex. Wherein are set forth, The Cheapness of Living, Civility, Sobriety, Tranquillity, Liberty of Conversation, and Diversions of the former. And the Expensive Living, Incivility, Extortions, Close Confinement, and Abuses of the latter. Together with a faithful Account of the Impositions of Bailiffs; &c. and their vile Usage of all such Unfortunate Persons as fall into their Hands. To which is added, A true account of the parentage, birth, education, and practices of that noted Thief-Catcher Jonathan Savage. With an Account of the Methods to be used for Recovering Stollen Goods. Written for the publick good. By B. L. of Twickenham.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1724- Books
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The dutch fortune teller: discovering XXXVI several questions, Which Old and Young, Married Men and Women, Batchelors and Maids, Delight to be Resolved of. Brought into England by John Booker.
Date: [between 1699 and 1708?]- Books
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The new and complete Newgate calendar; or, villany displayed in all its branches. Containing new and authentic accounts of all the lives, adventures, exploits, trials, executions and last dying speeches, confessions, (as well as letters to their relatives never before published) of the most notorious malefactors and others of both sexes and all denominations, who have suffered death and other exemplary punishments for murders, burglaries, felonies, horse-stealing, bigamy, forgeries, highway robberies, footpad robberies, perjuries, piracies, rapes, riots, mobbing, sodomy, starving to death, sheep stealing, swindling, high-treason, petit-treason, sedition, and other misdemeanors. Interspersed with notes, reflections, and remarks, arising from the several subjects, moral, useful, and entertaining. Including the transactions of the most remarkable prisoners, tried for high treason at the Old Bailey, viz. Hardy, Horne Tooke, Thelwall, &c. Likewise the trials of Watt, Downe, Palmer, Fitzgerald, Margarott, &c. &c. at Edinburgh for High Treason, Sedition, Libels, &c. &c. Comprehending also, all the most material passages in the sessions papers for a long series of years; together with the ordinary of Newgate's Account of the capital convicts; and complete narratives of all the most remarkable trials Also a great variety of the most important lives and trials never before published in any former work of the kind. The whole containing the most faithful narratives ever yet published of the various executions, and other exemplary punishments, which have happened in England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the year 1700, to the end of the year 1795. Properly arranged from the records of court. By William Jackson, Esq. Of the Inner-Temple, barrister at law; assisted by others. ... Illustrated with upwards of sixty most elegant copper plates.
Jackson, William, active 1795.Date: [1795]- Ephemera
A copy of verses : written upon the unfortunate Eliza Anthony, suspected of having been murdered.
Date: [1823?]- Books
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The history of England, written originally in French by Rapin de Thoyras: translated into English, with additional notes; and continued from the Revolution to the accession of King George II. By N. Tindal, M. A. Late Rector of Alverstoke in Hampshire, and Chaplain to the Royal Hospital at Greenwich: with the reign of George the II: by T. Smollett, M.D. And an index to each volume. ... Illustrated and Embellished with Portraits of the Kings, Queens, and illustrious Personages, Monuments, Great-Seals, Coins, naval and military Engagements, &c. and Maps of the different Parts of the World, where the Important Events of this History took Place.
Rapin de Thoyras, M. (Paul), 1661-1725.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
Notes on a visit made to some of the prisons in Scotland and the north of England, in company with Elizabeth Fry : with some general observations on the subject of prison discipline / By Joseph John Gurney.
Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847.Date: 1819- Books
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Remarks upon prison discipline, &c. &c. : in a letter addressed to the Lord Lieutenant and magistrates of the county of Essex / by C.C. Western.
Western, C. C. (Charles Callis), Baron Western, 1767-1844.Date: 1825- Books
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The north Briton, from No. I. to No. XLVI. inclusive. With several useful and explanatory notes, not printed in any former edition. To which is added, a copious index to every name and article. Corrected and revised by a friend to civil and religious liberty.
Date: M.DCC.LXIX. [1769]- Books
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Humanity and humanitarianism : with special reference to the prison systems of Great Britain and the United States, the question of criminal lunacy, and capital punishment / by William Tallack.
Tallack, William, 1831-1908.Date: 1871- Books
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The book of knowledge. In four parts. Part first. Shewing the nature of astrology, by the coelestial signs and planets. Measures of time. Movable terms, for 20 years, &c. Divers things necessary in trade and dealing, &c. To know the weather in all seasons of the year. Good and bad fortune as born under the several signs. The manner of resolving doubtful questions, relating to love, business, &c. Moles and marks in the body, their signification; Dreams, their interpretation Part second. The wheel of fortune, resolving questions in astrology. Fortunate and unfortunate days throughout the year. To know the changing of the moon by the prime observations on New-years-day. Part third. A treatise of physick, by the signs and planets. Observations in midwifery. Receipts for curing all diseases in men, women, and children The art of cookery. The forms of writing bonds bills, &c. Arithmetick in all its parts. Remedies for diseases in horses, cows, oxen, hogs, sheep, &c. A perpetual almanack for ever. A compleat tide talbe. An account of all the market days, roads, and fairs in England and Wales. Part fourth. The compleat gardiner, or the country-man's guide to good hu bandry [sic]. Composed by Sam. Strangehopes.
Strangehopes, Samuel.Date: [between 1699 and 1708?]- Books
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A letter sent to Mr. James Shepheard, Whilst Prisoner in Newgate, Persuading him to repent of His Design to murder the King. Shewing, I. By a short Essay upon the Original Nature and Progress of Civil Government, That his Majesty's Title to the Monarchy of Britain, is agreeable to the very End of Government it self; to the Right of the Davidical Line in that Government, which was more immediately established by God Himself; to the Notions of the Primitive Christians in the first Christian Empire of the World; to the Constitution of Old England, and most Christian and other Polite Governments in the Universe. II. From the Instances of Saul and Ishbosheth, and from many other Texts of Scripture, That the Persons of Sovereign Princes are guarded by the express Laws of God, from the Insults of all private Persons whatever, whether their own Subjects or others. III. That the Oath of Allegiance taken to any former King or Queen of England, binds the Conscience of him that took it, to perform the Contents thereof to his present Majesty King George. By Capt. Richard Dunning, of Sampford-Courtney in Devon, Author of the Sentiments of the Western Tortes, publish'd at the Beginning of the late Rebellion.
Dunning, Richard, Capt.Date: [1718?]- Books
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The secret history of the rebels in Newgate. Giving an account of their daily behaviour, from the commitment to their goal-delivery. Taken from a diary, kept by a gentleman in the same prison.
Date: [1717]- Books
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The secret history of the rebels in Newgate. Giving an account of their daily behaviour, from their commitment to their Goal-Delivery. Taken from a diary kept by a gentleman in the same prison.
Date: [1717]- Books
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Cocker's English dictionary, containing, an explanation of the most refined and difficult words and Terms in Divinity, Philosophy, Law, Physick, Mathematicks, Navigation, Husbandry, Military Discipline, with other Arts and Sciences: And the Derivation of them from the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, and other Languages. Likewise, Historical Remarks upon the Lives and Actions of Emperors, Popes, Kings, Queens, Princes, with a great number of other Persons of Note, both in the former and latter Ages of the World. With Brief Observations upon the Reign of every English Monarch from King William the Conqueror to this Time. Also a short View of what is Considerable in every County of England and Wales. With Variety of other Memorable Matters. A Work very Necessary for all Persons, who desire to understand the Affairs of the World, as well as the Language and Transactions of their own Country. By Edward Cocker, the late Famous Practitioner in Writing and Arithmetick. Publish'd from the author's copy: and in this second edition very much enlarged and altered: by John Hawkins
Cocker, Edward, 1631-1675.Date: 1715- Books
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The english rogue: or, the life of Jeremy Sharp, commonly called, Meriton Latroon. Shewing, his birth and parentage; the many pranks he play'd whilst a Child; his wonderful Escape from the Irish Rebels; his running away from his Mother, and entering into a Gang of Gypsies, and the villanies he committed, whilst he followed that Profession. His coming to London, his Commitment to Newgate; his being entertained in the Service of a Merchant, who took a Fancy to him seeing him beg in the Street. His turning Strolling-Player, and his Adventures and Intrigues with the Princess Cordelia. The exploits he performed in bawdy-houses; how he gets into a Boarding-School in Woman's Apparel, as a Maid-Servant, and gets several of the young Ladies with Child; runs away towards Ireland, is shipwreck'd on the Isle of Man, arrives at Dublin, the Tricks he plays there; returns to England, is imprisoned at Oxford; ransomed by his Comrades; falls in love with a rich Widow, whom he enjoys, robs, and forsakes; is condemned for another Robbery, and obliged to transport himself for seven Years out of the Kingdom; is shipwreck'd at Sea, taken by the Turks, sold to a Jew, makes his Escape to the East-Indies, his Adventures there. Returns to England, commits more villanies, grows honest, and dies penitent.
Sharp, Jeremy.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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A second letter to Sir John Cox Hippisley, bart. on the mischiefs incidental to the tread-wheel, as an instrument of prison discipline : containing an examination of the official reports upon this subject, returned to the Secretary of State's office during the present session of Parliament / by John Mason Good.
Good, John Mason, 1764-1827.Date: 1824