ISBN: 9781235006425

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1854. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... appointed fees to the gaoler. Howard applied to CHAP, his brother magistrates that the gaoler might hence- ? forth be remunerated by a salary instead of fees. L1FE AND mi T. . ill- i MANNERS. lhe Bench saw the grievous hardship, and were willing to grant the relief desired. But they wanted a precedent for charging the county with the expense. Forthwith did the High Sheriff mount his horse and ride through the neighbouring counties in search of precedents. But he soon learned that the same injustice was practised in them; and looking into their prisons he beheld scenes of calamity which he grew daily more and more anxious to relieve. From that hour the zeal of Howard never slackened. In the fine language of the Psalmist, his heart yearned to such as sit in darkness and the shadow of death, being fast bound in misery and iron. Before the close of 1774 he had visited almost every prison-house in England. In almost all he found grievous though varying faults of management; and in some it may be said no management at all. Three from the many scores of his reports must here suffice as samples of the rest. And first as to the Plymouth Town-Gaol:-- There are three rooms for felons; the one about five feet and a half high, with a wicket in the door seven inches by five, to admit light and air. To V this, as I was informed, three men who were confined near two months under sentence of transportation, came by turns for breath. The door had not been opened for five weeks when I with difCHAP, ficulty entered to see a pale inhabitant. He had ''? been there ten weeks under sentence of transporLife And Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope, Books, History, History Of England From The Peace Of Utrecht To The Peace Of Versailles (volume 7); 1713-1783 Books>History, General Books LLC<

2012, ISBN: 9781235006425

Softcover, Buch, [PU: General Books]

2012, ISBN: 9781235006425

Softcover, Buch, [PU: General Books]

2012, ISBN: 9781235006425

Softcover, Buch, [PU: General Books]