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Griffiths Arthur. Non-Criminal Prisons
Non-Criminal Prisons
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
NON-CRIMINAL. PRISONS
CHAPTER I. THE FLEET PRISON
CHAPTER II. ABUSES AT THE FLEET
CHAPTER III. FAMOUS DWELLERS IN THE FLEET
CHAPTER IV. THE KING’S BENCH PRISON
CHAPTER V. LIFE IN THE KING’S BENCH
CHAPTER VI. ENGLISH PRISONS OF WAR
CHAPTER VII. THE HULKS
CHAPTER VIII. AMERICAN PRISONERS IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER IX. FRENCH WAR PRISONS
CHAPTER X. LATER RECORDS
CHAPTER XI. AMERICAN WAR PRISONS
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Arthur Griffiths
English Debtor's Prisons and Prisons of War; French War Prisons; American War Prisons with References to Those of Other Lands
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No debtor was allowed to benefit by the funds thus obtained until they had been formally sworn at the “grate,” to the effect that they were not worth five pounds in the world. After this they were entitled to a share in the contents of the collection box and to participate in the donations and bequests of the charitable souls who compassionated their poverty-stricken, hardly-used brethren.
A detailed list of the benefactors and their gifts will be found in Howard’s “State of Prisons” (1784), and some are curious enough and may be quoted, such as the bequest known as “Eleanor Gwynne’s bread,” which gave the debtors in Ludgate every eighth week five shillings’ worth of penny loaves, and the gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Mission, the yearly income of two hundred pounds, three per cent. annuities for free bread and coals. A mysterious gift was sent for years to the Wood Street Compter, “nine stone of beef and fourteen quartern loaves,” but its origin was kept secret until at the death of Princess Caroline its royal origin was displayed, and the alms was continued by the order of George III during his life. Mr. Allnutt, who was for many years a prisoner in the Marshalsea for debt, came in for a good estate while incarcerated and at his death he left one hundred pounds a year to be applied to the release of poor debtors. In the Southwark County Gaol, once known as the
