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Auction: 5011 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 631

Crime and Punishment Crimes Debt 1748 ´The London Gazette´ newspaper for 23-27 August, recording an Act of Parliament forcing debtors to reveal their total assets, 1838 entire letter with printed interior from Nuneaton Workhouse advising other parishes that they were no longer to pay for the funeral expenses of paupers, 1842 two printed Court documents ´for Relief of Insolvent Debtors´ relating to a man imprisoned in Lancaster Castle; a fine and attractive group Estimate £ 150-180

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