Daniel Defoe
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Excerpt from The History of the Press-Yard, or a Brief Account of the Customs and Occurrences That Are Put in Practice, and to Be Met With in That Ant
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ient Repository of Living Bodies, Called, His Majesty's Goal of Newgate in London: Wherein, Besides Several Descriptions and Characters Never Before Made Publick, Are Inserted Be it fufficnent therefore for the Informa tion of thenlnquifitive, that they are told this Repofitory of Unfortunate Men, This Tomb of the Living, was once the Bhem'x Imz by Nemgatefireet, and being contiguous to the Goal of that Name, and very couve nient for enlarging the Territories of one of its Keepers of Tyrannical Memory, was added to it in the Times of vjurpation; when our very Churches were made Pri fons of, and thofe that were in them, could not breath fo freely for want of Room, as now they may, when we are at Lihert) ci ther to {lay out, or go into them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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