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Henry S. Simmonds. All about Battersea
All about Battersea
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Introduction
ALL ABOUT BATTERSEA
On a recently-exposed Section at Battersea
This was the Scale of Fees of the Burial Board of St. Mary, Battersea
OTHER FEES
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Henry S. Simmonds
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Samson when a prisoner to the Philistines was condemned to the mill-stone to grind with his hand in the prison-house, Judges xvi. 21. In England prisoners are sent to the treadmill as a punishment.
The Talmudists have a story that the Chaldeans made the young men of the captivity carry mill-stones with them to Babylon where there seems to have been a scarcity at that time. They have also a proverbial expression of a man with a mill-stone about his neck which they use to express a man under the severest weight of affliction.
