# The Chronicles of Newgate, vol. 2/2

Author: Griffiths, Arthur, 1838-1908

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46746

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Chronicles+of+Newgate%2C+vol.+2%2F2+Griffiths&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

State of crime on opening new gaol--Newgate full--Executions very numerous--Ruthless penal code--Forgery punished with death--Its frequency--How fostered--Some notable forgers--The first forgery of Bank of England notes--Gibson--Bolland--The two Perreaus--Dr. Dodd--Charles Price, _alias_ Old Patch--Clipping still largely practised--John Clarke hanged for it--Also William Guest, a clerk in Bank of England--His elaborate apparatus for filing guineas--Coining--Forty or fifty private mints for making counterfeits--Always at work--Town and country orders regularly executed--650 prosecutions for coining in seven years--Offences against life and property--Streets unsafe--High roads infested by r...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/13/index.md)
- [viii. The female felons were deprived of part of the space which the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/9/index.md)
- [ii. 6-22, 245, 257, 294-304;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/11/index.md)
- [i. 64-67;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/22/index.md)
- [c. 40, any two justices might remove a prisoner found to be insane,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/12/index.md)
- [ii. 216, 217;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/19/index.md)
- [i. 188;](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/3/index.md)
- [v. The master felons' side consisted of a yard the same size as the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/7/index.md)
- [ii. The female debtors' side consisted of a court-yard forty-nine by](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/5/index.md)
- [i. The male debtors' side consisted of a yard forty-nine feet by](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/1/index.md)
- [iv. The middle yard was at first given up to the least heinous](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-chronicles-of-newgate-vol-2-2-46746/chapters/6/index.md)