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Auction: 5011 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 679

Crime and Punishment Prisons London Marshalsea: 1748 and 1761 entire letters from debtor prisoners, the former (self-adhesive tape stains) asking for power of attorney to be given to a nephew, the latter (showing London Penny Post h.s. and ink manuscript Receiving House ´Lamb´) from a son to his father pleading for help and signed ´Your Necessiated and Disconsolate Son´; 1762 entire letter from ´Trinity Farm´ to Somerset, relating to two men held at Marshalsea who were accused of stealing ´a quantity of Lime´; also 1697 printed single-sheet ´The London Gazette´, no. 3297 (issue for 14-17 June), including reference to a man held at Marshalsea accused of robbing a woman near Croydon, accompanied by a copy of a print showing prisoners relaxing at the ´Racquet Court of the Marshalsea´; an attractive group Estimate £ 200-250

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