Category: History - British
Brief survey of Newgate--The first gaol--Its antiquity--Its inmates and general condition--Whittington’s prison--Rebuilt after the Fire--Misgovernment, neglect, and injustice--Capital convicts and executions--First dawn of reform--A new Newgate built by Dance--State of interio...
Brief survey of Newgate--The first gaol--Its antiquity--Its inmates and general condition--Whittington’s prison--Rebuilt after the Fire--Misgovernment, neglect, and injustice--C...
4. CHAPTER I.Earliest accounts of Newgate prison--The New Gate, when built and why--Classes of prisoners incarcerated--Of high degree, as well as all categories of common criminals--Brawlers...
5. CHAPTER II.Prison records meagre--Administration of justice and state of crime--Lenity alternates with great severity--Disturbances in London--The ‘Black Waggon’--A ’prentice riot--Crimina...
6. CHAPTER III.More Jesuit emissaries in Newgate--Richardson and others--Their fate--Some escape--Greater favour shown them under Charles I. through intercession of Henrietta Maria--But freedo...
7. CHAPTER IV.Newgate refronted in 1638--Destroyed in Great Fire of 1666--How rebuilt--Façade described--Account of interior by B. L. of Twickenham--Various parts or sides--The lodge and cond...
8. CHAPTER V.Press-yard described--Charges for admission--Extortionate fees paid to turnkeys and governor--The latter’s perquisites--Night carousing in Press-yard--Penalty for excess--Days h...
9. CHAPTER VI.Reasons for legal punishments--Early forms: branding, mutilation, whipping, the pillory, and stocks--Penalties for females: the ducking-stool, branks, and scourge--Capital punis...
10. CHAPTER VII.Escapes from Newgate mostly commonplace--Causes of escapes--Mediæval prison breaking--Scheme of escape in a coffin--Other methods--Changing clothes--Setting fire to prison--Conn...
11. CHAPTER VIII.Newgate Calendars--Their editors and publishers--All based on Sessions’ papers--Demand for this literature fostered by prevalence of crime--Brief summary of state of crime in th...
12. CHAPTER IX.Less atrocious murders--Consequences of ungovernable passion--Mr. Plunkett--Mr. Bird--A sensitive Guardsman--The Reverend James Hackman, in passionate despair, murders Miss Reay...
13. CHAPTER X.Why chapter so styled--The gaol fever the visible exponent of foul state of gaols--Their evils briefly described--Neither sufficient light nor air--Often underground--Scantiest...
14. CHAPTER XI.Corporation anxious to check gaol fever--- Appoints committee to report as to building a new prison--York Castle proposed for imitation--Plans obtained, and given to city archit...