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Newgate Prison, London: male prisoners taking exercise by walking around the prison yard. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1873.
Fitzgerald, Michael, active 1871-1891.Date: 1873Reference: 37852i- Pictures
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Newgate Prison, London: visitors talking to prisoners through a grill. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1873, after M. Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald, Michael, active 1871-1891.Date: [1873]Reference: 37724i- Books
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Prison rules (convict prisons) : draft of rules proposed to be made under the Prison Act, 1898.
Great Britain. Home Office.Date: 1899- Books
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Prison rules (local prisons) : draft of rules proposed to be made under the Prison Act, 1898.
Great Britain. Home Office.Date: 1899- Books
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The matchless rogue: or, an account of the contrivances, cheats, stratagems and amours of Tom Merryman, commonly called, Newgate Tom: Who Stiled Himself, Baron of Bridewell, Viscount of New-Prison, Earl of Holborn-Hill, Marquils of Newgate, and Duke of Tyburn. With A particular Detail of his Life and Actions, both Comical and Tragical, from the Time of his Birth in Newgate, to the Hour of his Unhappy Exit at Tyburn.
Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
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An inquiry, whether crime and misery are produced or prevented, by our present system of prison discipline : Illustrated by descriptions of the Borough Compter, Tothill Fields Prison, the Jail at St. Albans, the Jail at Guilford, the Jail at Bristol, the Jails at Bury & Ilchester, the Mason de Force at Ghent, the Philadelphia Prison, the Penitentiary at Millbank, and the proceedings of the Ladies' Committee at Newgate / By Thomas Fowell Buxton.
Buxton, Thomas Fowell, Sir, 1786-1845.Date: 1818- Books
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Prison labour, &c. : correspondence and communications addressed to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, concerning the introduction of tread-mills into prisons : with other matters connected with the subject of prison discipline / by Sir John Cox Hippisley.
Hippisley, John Cox, 1748-1825.Date: 1823- Books
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Newgate in tears. Being an elegy on the much lamented death of Richard Murray, head hangman of England; who departed this life ... on Saturday morning, being the 4th of this instant December, 1708. ...
Date: 1708- Books
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The fortunes and misfortunes of Moll Flanders, Who was born in Newgate, And during a Life of continued Variety for sixty Years, was 17 Times a Whore, 5 Times a Wife, once to her own Brother, 12 Years a Thief, 11 Times in Bridewell, 9 Times in New Prison, 11 Times in Wood-Street Compter, 6 Times in the Poultry Compter, 14 Times in the Gate-House, 25 Times in Newgate, 15 Times whipt at the Cart's Arse, 4 Times burnt in the Hand, once condemned for Life, and ... Years a Transport in Virginia. At last ... rich, lived honest and died a penitent.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1750?]- Books
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The Newgate calendar improved : being interesting memoirs of notorious characters who have been convicted of offences against the laws of England ... To which is added a correct account of the various modes of punishment of criminals in different parts of the world, v.1-2 / by George Theodore Wilkinson.
Wilkinson, George Theodore.Date: [1819?]- Books
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Prisons (rules for local prisons) : draft of rules proposed to be made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department under the Prison Act, 1898, with regard to the dietary of prisoners : presented in pursuance of Act 60 & 61 Vic., cap. 41, s. 2(2) / Chas. T. Ritchie.
Great Britain. Home Office.Date: 1901- Books
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Prisons (rules for convict prisons) : draft of rules proposed to be made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department under the Prison Act, 1898, with regard to the dietary of convicts : presented in pursuance of Act 61 & 62 Vic., cap. 41, s. 2(2) / Chas. T. Ritchie.
Great Britain. Home Office.Date: 1901- Books
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An exact account of the great and formidable eclipse of the sun, which will be visible, total, and central, in England May 11, 1724. Shewing. The true Time of the Beginning, Middle, and End of it; with its Quantity and Duration, as it will appear at London Bristol, Exeter, Glocester, Salisbury &c.
Date: [1724]- Books
The English Bastille : a history of Newgate Gaol and prison conditions in Britain, 1188-1902 / Anthony Babington ; foreword by James Callaghan.
Babington, Anthony.Date: 1971- Books
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The Kings medicines for the plague : Prescribed in the year, 1604, by the whole Collodge [sic] of Physitians, both spiritual and temporal. : Generally made use of, and approved in the years, 1625, and 1636. : And now most fitting for this dangerous time of infection, to be used all England over.
Date: 1665- Books
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The court and city medley; or, political shaver; being a curious collection of satirical originals, in prose and verse; adapted to the present times: Containing, among a Variety of other Oddities, I. Fire and Faggot, or the City Mob. II. Newgate Triumphant. III. Liberty Pistol'd. IV. Prison and Pillory. V. The Sons of Gomorrah. VI. The Rich Bastards. Vii. The Picture of Peace. Viii. The Murdered Apple-Tree. IX. Scalping in England. X. Dying Groans of a Devonshire Cyder-Mill. XI. Treason in Town. XII. The Paper Thieves. XIII. An Alphabet suitable to the Times. XIV. An odd Epistle to Ld Bible from the West of England. XV. The Farmer's Prayer, &c. &c. &c. Ornamented with a suitable Copper-Palte. Humbly addressed to the County of Bucks. By Sir Daniel Downright.
Downright, Daniel, Sir.Date: 1764- Books
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The miraculous sheep's eye, at St. Victor's in Paris. A poem. In two canto's By G. W-----, M.A. Minister of the Church of England.
White, George, -1751.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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A letter to the High Sheriff of the county of Lincoln, respecting the bills of Lord Grenville and Mr. Pitt, for altering the criminal law of England, respecting treason and sedition. Including a copy of the author's petition to the Honorable House of Commons, presented by Mr. Fox, on Wednesday the 25th of November, 1795. By John Cartwright, Esq.
Cartwright, John, 1740-1824.Date: 1795- Books
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Description of the tread mill, for the employment of prisoners : with observations on its management, accompanied by a plate and description of a new instrument, by which the daily amount of individual labour may be determined by inspection, and regulated with uniformity and precision / published by the committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline, &c.
Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, England)Date: 1823- Books
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The Kings medicines for the plague : prescribed for the yeare 1604. by the whole Colledge of Physitians, both spirituall and temporall. And now most fitting for this dangerous time of infection, to be used all England over.
Royal College of Physicians of LondonDate: 1636- Books
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Celia's new garland: compos'd of eight new songs. I. Celia's complaint. II. The answer. III. The enamour'd swain. IV. A dialogue between a Ranter and a Love-Sick Quaker. V. The merchant son and young Susan. VI. Gossip Joan. Vii. The young mens warning-piece: Shewing the wicked Lives and evil Courses of the Six Malefactors, now hanging in Chains. Viii. The cruel woman: or. The Monster of a Wife; being the Prison Groansof Margaret Hayes, with a Dialogue between Thomas Billing, and Thomas Wood, her two bloody Companions now in Newgate, &c. Enter'd in the Stamp-Office, according to the late Act of Parliament.
Date: [1728?]- Books
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Utopia: containing an impartial history of the manners, customs, polity, government, &c. of that island. Written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Chancellor Of England; And interspersed with many important Articles of Secret History, relating to the State of the British Nation. Translated into English by Gilbert Burnet, late Bishop of Sarum. To this edition is added, an account of Sir Thomas More's life.
More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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A genuine narrative of the memorable life and actions of John Everett, who formerly kept the Cock Ale-House in the Old-Bailey; and lately the Tap in the Fleet-Prison, and was executed at Tyburn, on Friday the 20th day of February, 1729-30. To which is added, his humble address (by way of letter) to Mrs. Martha Ellis and Mrs Manly, whom he Robb'd, and for which he was Condemn'd. And likewise his letter to his brother's master, a Chair-Maker, &c. Written by himself when under Condemnation, and in his Cell in Newgate, and Publish'd at his own Request.
Everett, John, -1730.Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]- Books
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The dutch display'd; or, a succinct account of the barbarities, rapines and injustices, committed by the subjects of Holland upon those of England, Since the Commencement of the Dutch Republic to the present Times. With a Plate, exhibiting a View of the Torments inflicted on the English at Amboyna.
Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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A letter from a yeoman of Buckinghamshire, to the Marquis of Buckingham. Though ruinous systems of monopoly now prevail, though diabolical land-holders now conspire against the interests of individual mechanics, though a seeming general wish to fetter old England's freeborn sons predominates over the councils of the Barons of 1795; though these desire only to introduce despotism universally, thereby to exterminate national liberty and national truth, yet a time will come, when scoundrel aristocracy shall yoke the mildsway of Plebeian independence!
Yeoman of Buckinghamshire.Date: 1795