How criminals are made and prevented : a retrospect of forty years / by J.W. Horsley.

  • Horsley, J. W. (John William), 1845-1921.
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[1913]
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Credit: How criminals are made and prevented : a retrospect of forty years / by J.W. Horsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of their friends who had been sent there that day for putting-down brothels, “ one of the great grievances of the nation.” And so Pepys records that the military had to be called out “as if the French were coming to the town.” There was, of course, no chaplain in those days; but if there had been his task would have been a perplexing one, since with the Romans were plenty of Nonconformists of the Protestant variety —a curious, unhappy family when the poet Taylor calls the place, in 1630, “a jayle for hereticks, For Brownists, Familists, and Schismaticks.” Also others were committed for blasphemy, some of whom were plainly, from the utterances which were their condemnation, simply lunatics. Taylors poem, by the by, was entitled “ The Vertue of a jayle and the necessitie of hanging.” Amongst these curiously commingled religionists and irre- ligionists the most eminent was undoubtedly Richard Baxter, who, if he had allowed or ap- plauded the earlier conviction of Churchmen for the possession of a prayer-book, found that others besides Cromwell and the anti-Church party could be intolerant. His offence was that of preaching in his own house at Acton, contrary to the 1662 Act of Uniformity. We are glad, however, to learn