An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State, of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts: Throughout England and Wales, Issue 398 |
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Page vii
... highest respect , has the honour to be , My LORD , Your Lordship's faithful and most obedient servant , JAMES NEILD . Chelsea , March 31 , 1802 . 2 CONTENTS . Page Introductory Account of the Society for the DEDICATION . vii.
... highest respect , has the honour to be , My LORD , Your Lordship's faithful and most obedient servant , JAMES NEILD . Chelsea , March 31 , 1802 . 2 CONTENTS . Page Introductory Account of the Society for the DEDICATION . vii.
Page ix
... March 31 , 1801 , to March 31 , 1802 .... List of Benefactors and Governors .... .... Summary View of Money annually expended . . . . . . . . 312 323 • 325 353 T OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DISCHARGE AND RELIEF OF ( ix )
... March 31 , 1801 , to March 31 , 1802 .... List of Benefactors and Governors .... .... Summary View of Money annually expended . . . . . . . . 312 323 • 325 353 T OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DISCHARGE AND RELIEF OF ( ix )
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... March 1801 , amounted to 1125 ; who had 535 wives , and 1404 children ; and the expences attending the same was 2607 / . 11s . id . The average therefore paid , including every inci- dental expence of rent , printing , advertisements ...
... March 1801 , amounted to 1125 ; who had 535 wives , and 1404 children ; and the expences attending the same was 2607 / . 11s . id . The average therefore paid , including every inci- dental expence of rent , printing , advertisements ...
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... PROVISIONARY ALLOWANCE , & c . & c . DURING CONFINEMENT : AS REPORTED TO THE Society for the Discharge and Relief of Small Debtors , In MARCH , 1802 . BY JAMES NEILD , ESQ . TREASURER . " Ah ! little think the gay , licentious proud.
... PROVISIONARY ALLOWANCE , & c . & c . DURING CONFINEMENT : AS REPORTED TO THE Society for the Discharge and Relief of Small Debtors , In MARCH , 1802 . BY JAMES NEILD , ESQ . TREASURER . " Ah ! little think the gay , licentious proud.
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... March 31 , 1801 , Feb. 2 , 6 . • 2 . · • Allowance . None whatever . REMARKS . There being no chapel , divine service is perform- ed in the debtors ' day - room . Only one court - yard , the size 32 yards by 22 ; so that debtors and ...
... March 31 , 1801 , Feb. 2 , 6 . • 2 . · • Allowance . None whatever . REMARKS . There being no chapel , divine service is perform- ed in the debtors ' day - room . Only one court - yard , the size 32 yards by 22 ; so that debtors and ...
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14 feet action arrested attend divine service Bart Basket Woman bedstead Benef bread per day Bridewell chapel Chaplain Charity Christmas Clerk coals committed Common-side debtors Compter confined convicts County allows Court court-yard creditors day-room debtors and felons deceased Ditto divine service Duty eight Executors expence feet by 12 feet square firing allowed five Benefactions four Benefactions free wards furnished Gaol Gaoler Garnish Henry IMPRISONED FOR SMALL John keeper King's Bench Prison Lady Langston Harbour legacy liberate Lord March March 26 March 31 Marshal Master's side debtors Messrs Number of Debtors paid parish poor debtors Poultry Compter pound of bread REMARKS rooms Salary Sheriff demands shilling per week shillings side debtors pay six Benefactions six-pence sleeping-rooms SMALL DEBTS Society stair-case Steward straw Surgeon TABLE of FEES Thomas three Benefactions Tipstaff Treasurer Turnkeys Twelver William women debtors yards ΙΟ
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Page vi - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 44 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 44 - Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms; Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs.
Page 157 - CD, and their fellows, justices of our said lord the King, assigned to keep the peace of our said lord the King...
Page 298 - The misery of gaols is not half their evil : they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickedness can generate between them; with all the shameless and profligate enormities that can be produced by the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair.
Page 298 - In a prison the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one fortifies himself as he can against his own sensibility, endeavours to practise on others the arts which are practised on himself; and gains the kindness of his associates by similitude of manners.
Page 117 - Compter is now appropriated for the reception of debtors, felons, and other offenders, and also for vagrants and...
Page 32 - That such debtors shall have the preference as are most aged or infirm, have the largest families unprovided for, are the most likely to be useful to the community and appear to have lost their liberty by unavoidable misfortunes; at least not by fraud, vice, or extravagance.
Page 359 - The fourth appointed by his office was Poor prisoners to relieve with gracious aid, And captives to redeem with price of brass From Turks and Saracens, which them had stay'd ; And though they faulty were, yet well he weigh'd, That God to us forgiveth every hour Much more than that why they in bands were laid ; And he, that harrow'd hell with heavy stowre, The faulty souls from thence brought to his heav'nly bower.
Page 174 - June, in the 33d year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Second, 'and in the year of our Lord 1760, pursuant to an Act for the relief of Debtors, with respect to the imprisonment of their persons ; viz.