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A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… is of the same quality with the three first. In the gaol at Huntingdon. John Wells, Suspected very strongly for … confess judgments, as hath been proved before me. In the gaol at Okeham. John Goodman, A pitiful drunken wretch, and …
A collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe
… Nov. 1656, against Mr. Henry Howard, late prisoner in the gaol of Durham; who saith and informeth, Vol. xliv. p. 270. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… trove, returns and issue of all writs and mandates, gaol and prison. 50 By the late 16th century, however, the … manor and Whitechapel liberty and the custody of the gaol, it was granted for five years or life in 1681 to Paul … Taylor the 'water poet' in 1623. 24 As 'Lord Wentworth's gaol or prison', with a great garden behind it, it was …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… cone, and weighing 15lb. troy, is preserved here. The old gaol, situated in St. John's-street, though secure, was ill … adapted for the classification of the prisoners, and a new gaol has consequently been erected, on a very extensive … cells for prisoners, and apartments for the keeper of the gaol. The market is held weekly, on Thursday, and is …
Old and New London
… and eight others were dragged on hurdles from the new gaol in Southwark to Kennington Common, and there hanged. …
Survey of London
… days later a provisional agreement for the purchase of the gaol for 13,000 was signed. 169 The formal conveyance was …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… but the burgh has no common fund, neither is there any gaol nearer than Kirkwall. The magistrates consequently …