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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… 1192 may have been graves. 11 There was also a prison for women, apparently with a chapel above it, built by John Piper … columns for the warders, debtors, and visitors; women sat in the centre with the felons and convicts around … Originally the ground floor was divided into cells for women felons and the upper floor into more comfortable rooms …
Survey of London
… for a hospital for the Relief of those Child-bearing Women who are the Wives of poor Industrious Tradesmen or …