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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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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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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 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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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 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 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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The malefactor's register; or, the Newgate and Tyburn calendar. Containing the authentic lives, trials, accounts of executions, and dying speeches, of the most notorious violators of the laws of their country; Who have Suffered Death, and other exemplary Punishments, in England, Scotland and Ireland, from the year 1700 to Lady-Day 1779. Together with Numerous Trials in Extraordinary Cases, where the Parties have been Acquitted. This Work comprehends all the most material Passages in the Sessions-Papers for a long Series of Years, and complete Narratives of all the Capital Trials for Bigamy, Burglary, Felony, Forgery, Highway-Robbery, High-Treason, Murder, Petit-Treason, Piracy, Rapes, Riots, Street-Robbery, Unnatural Crimes, And various other Offences. To which is added, A correct List of all the Capital Convictions at the Old Bailey, &c. since the Commencement of the present Century; which will be of the highest Use to refer to on many Occasions. The whole tending, by a general Display of the Progress and Consequence of Vice, to impress on the Mind proper Ideas of the Happiness resulting from a Life of strict Honor and Integrity: and to convince Individuals of the superior Excellence of those Laws framed for the Protection of their Lives and Properties. Embellished with a most elegant and superb set of copper plates, engraved in a spirited Manner, from original Designs, by capital Artists.
Date: [1779]- 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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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- 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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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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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