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, Nummer 398Nichols and Son, 1802 - 363 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... common practice of the law of arrests Inilitates against the creditor's advantage , and if the debtor is even more punished by it than many noto- rious malefactors , it is surely the concern of the Legis- lature to provide some remedy ...
... common practice of the law of arrests Inilitates against the creditor's advantage , and if the debtor is even more punished by it than many noto- rious malefactors , it is surely the concern of the Legis- lature to provide some remedy ...
Pagina 21
... common is it , for the plain- tiffs against persons committed to the city compters , to deliver declarations , and proceed no farther , until the debtor , at his own expence , obtains a rule of court for proceeding to trial ! In this ...
... common is it , for the plain- tiffs against persons committed to the city compters , to deliver declarations , and proceed no farther , until the debtor , at his own expence , obtains a rule of court for proceeding to trial ! In this ...
Pagina 38
... common and ordi- nary course of business , or on specious pretences ; and of such other circumstances , as may enable the Society to judge of the Petitioner's true character , and of his qua- lification to partake of the public bounty ...
... common and ordi- nary course of business , or on specious pretences ; and of such other circumstances , as may enable the Society to judge of the Petitioner's true character , and of his qua- lification to partake of the public bounty ...
Pagina 44
... common air , and common use drink the cup " Of their own limbs ! How many " Of baleful Grief , or eat the bitter bread " Of Misery ! -For , sure , th ' awakening thought " The conscious heart of Charity would warm ; " The social tear ...
... common air , and common use drink the cup " Of their own limbs ! How many " Of baleful Grief , or eat the bitter bread " Of Misery ! -For , sure , th ' awakening thought " The conscious heart of Charity would warm ; " The social tear ...
Pagina 55
... common kitchen and pantry below ; in all which ( except the pantry ) , there is a fire - place ; straw for their beds is furnished by the county . They have a separate court - yard , an oblong square , about 16 yards by 13 . The prison ...
... common kitchen and pantry below ; in all which ( except the pantry ) , there is a fire - place ; straw for their beds is furnished by the county . They have a separate court - yard , an oblong square , about 16 yards by 13 . The prison ...
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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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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 157 - CD, and their fellows, justices of our said lord the King, assigned to keep the peace of our said lord the King...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 117 - Compter is now appropriated for the reception of debtors, felons, and other offenders, and also for vagrants and...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.