Excerpt from How Criminals Are Made and Prevented: A Retrospect of Forty Years We must go back very nearly three hundred years to find that in 1615 a large garden in Clerkenwell was bought by the Middlesex Justices for the punishment and employment (the latter being Often the former) of rogues and vagabonds. Hitherto, these had been accommodated in the City Bridewell but they were so increasing in number that the City Fathers began to discover that it was not their duty to be burdened with them. The site and the building ...
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Excerpt from How Criminals Are Made and Prevented: A Retrospect of Forty Years We must go back very nearly three hundred years to find that in 1615 a large garden in Clerkenwell was bought by the Middlesex Justices for the punishment and employment (the latter being Often the former) of rogues and vagabonds. Hitherto, these had been accommodated in the City Bridewell but they were so increasing in number that the City Fathers began to discover that it was not their duty to be burdened with them. The site and the building cost only part of which came from a county rate, part by the free gift Of the justices, and 500 given by the City was spent on building and furnishing, although it had been earmarked to make a stock for the employment of the poor, for though it was called a House Of Correction, it, apparently, was intended to have some of the characteristics of an Elizabethan workhouse. It had hardly been finished when the larky larrikins Of the City 'prentices, who held a kind of Saturnalia each Shrove Tuesday, had a cast at the New Bridewell beyond St. John Street, according to Strype, probably because some of their number. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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