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… this privilege was of a twofold character, protecting both debtors and criminals from arrestthe one general, and … sink of iniquity. It grew into an asylum for vagabonds, debtors, thieves, highwaymen, coiners, and felons, who could … sanctuaries by the king's officers; and also, that as for debtors, who had taken sanctuary to defraud their creditors, …