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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… cells) and was closed and demolished in 1878, under the Prisons Act of the preceding year. 16 Wisbech was also in … Walker and Craddock, Hist. Wisb. 425-6. 2 nd Rep. Commrs. Prisons [C. 2442], 28, H.C. (1878-9) xxxiv. Its site is still …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the idea of removing Jesuit and other priests from London prisons to stricter confinement at Wisbech was still being …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1517; for the bridewell, below, local govt. (policing: prisons). A. Young, Six Weeks Tour (1768), 99. Plummer and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Par. Witney c 49, nos. 57. Below, local govt. (policing: prisons). Bodl. MSS Top. Oxon. b 275, p. 249; d 212, f. 111; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the justices, were recorded in the 18th century. 155 Prisons and Lock-Ups The king's prison at Witney was …