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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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having been previously exhibited for money by the turnkeys. During the twelve years of the reign of Queen Anne, 242 malefactors were hanged within the juris- diction of the city of London alone. Hanging was not the only mode of capital punish- ment. Women who were found guilty of murdering their husbands were publicly burned ; men who were convicted of high treason were cut down when half hung, and then disembowelled, and those who refused to plead guilty to a capital charge were laid on their backs while heavy weights were placed on their breasts which slowly pressed them to death. The management of the prisons was not more com- mendable. Prisoners for debt were left manacled in nauseous dungeons. Cases were proved of debtors who, being unable to pay their gaol-fees, were locked up with prisoners suffering from small-pox ; women were left without beds, and perished from want of proper nourishment. In most large prisons the gaol fever made fearful ravages. In one year the disease raged to such an extent, that at the Old Bailey Assizes two Judges, the Lord Mayor, and an Alderman, were among its victims. It was not until 1727 that a member of the House of Commons, named Oglethorpe, obtained a Parliamentary inquiry into the condition of the prisons.
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