An account of the rise, progress, and present state, of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts throughout England and Wales / By James Neild.

  • Neild, James, 1744-1814.
Date:
1802
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the rise, progress, and present state, of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts throughout England and Wales / By James Neild. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    side debtors pay for a single bed two pence per night; and if two sleep together one penny each. Common- side debtors have the upper rooms of the prison, where two sleep in a bed (except where they find their own beds). I\o bedding or straw is found by the County. It is a matter of option with debtors to attend chapel. The County finds no employment for any of them. They fix upon their own work, in spinning worsted, combing wool, manufacturing laces from worsted and cotton, and also making a variety of articles from worsted, cotton, and silk; by which means many of them are enabled to greatly assist themselves and families. They expose them to sale in the castle-yard ; by which advantage they derive a good benefit.