Newgate in the Eighteenth Century

Anthony Babington describes life in an eighteenth century London prison for felons, debtors and rebels.

A plan of Newgate Prison published in 1800In the early eighteenth century three separate tracts were published in London, each of which contained a description of the interior of Newgate together with certain details about the lives of prisoners there.

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