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Debt Imprisonment and the City

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1 Published in 2019 at "History Workshop Journal"

DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbz018

Abstract: When the Cornish recusant gentleman Francis Tregian the Younger entered the Fleet debtors’ prison during the early seventeenth century, he being ‘desirous of more ease than ordinary’ persuaded the warden to let him lodge in… read more here.

Keywords: marshalsea; imprisonment city; prison; debt imprisonment ... See more keywords