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A History of the County of York
… responsibility for many recusant prisoners kept in the kidcotes on Ouse Bridge. When in February 1584 the sheriffs … proceeded to concentrate all the recusants in the mayor's kidcotes and the prisoners for debt in their own, access to … forbidden to come up to the 'grate or holes of the said kidcotes', but to be kept below. As for the Hutton children, …