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Old and New London
… Phnix, for prisons at that time were places of cruelty and extortion, and schools of villainy. The great playwright …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
Finance and trade under Edward III
… oppression because of the scope it afforded for extortion on the part of the collectors, and as such it would …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… and you removed them; one of those Soldiers committing Extortion, in taking away two Pewter Dishes, and is to be …