Prisoners - England - Early works to 1800

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To the grand juries of the City of London and County of Middlesex
Lloyd, Thomas, fl. 1794.Date: 1794]
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A compleat narrative of all the prisoners, who were try'd, cast, and condemned, at the Sessions-House, in the Old Bailey, containing the whole remarkable trials, of Brent Coleman, Richard Edwards, John Roberts, and Michael Jacobs, and many other notorious malefactors
Date: 1740?]
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A compassionate address to the high and mighty in behalf of the poor distressed prisoners. Contents. Remark about Persons executed and imprisoned in England. Of the Levitical Law and that of England in regard to Prisoners, &c. The Laws and Practice of the Saxons as to criminal Cases, and other Law Proceedings An Account of the Cruelty of William the Conqueror and of the Feudal Law. Cruelty to Criminals, &c. the last Remains of the other. The Hardship of the Court of Wards, &c. given up by King Charles II. Several extraordinary Instances. That of Lucia, Widow of the first Randle E. of Chester. Men and Women then bought and sold. Some Queries of the late excellent Bishop Berkley about Criminals, Spend-Thrifts, &c. Reflections thereon with Application of the whole
Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLIII. [1753]
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Queries humbly offered to the serious consideration of the worthy magistrates and inhabitants of the county of Middlesex, relative to their House of Correction in Clerkenwell
Date: 1760?]
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The last dying words and confession of John Donnellan, Esq who was executed at Warwick, on Monday the 2d. of April, 1781.
John DonellanDate: 1781]