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A Debtor Thumscrud and Iron Pothook's about his neck
The cry of the oppressed being a true and tragical account of the unparallel'd sufferings of multitudes of poor imprisoned debtors in most of the gaols in England ... together with the case of the publisher.
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- The cry of the oppressed being a true and tragical account of the unparallel'd sufferings of multitudes of poor imprisoned debtors in most of the gaols in England ... together with the case of the publisher.
- Author
- Pitt, Moses, fl. 1654-1696.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Moses Pitt, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster,
- 1691.
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"The cry of the oppressed being a true and tragical account of the unparallel'd sufferings of multitudes of poor imprisoned debtors in most of the gaols in England ... together with the case of the publisher." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B28136.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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MR. Jackson, a Wool-Comer in St. Ed∣monds-Bury, Suffolk, Aged about Thir∣ty Years, for sending out of the Prison for Drink, was Thumbscru'd, and a pair of Pot-Hooks (as they termed it) of Iron put about his Neck, and Chain'd to a Mantle-Tree of a Chimney, that he was forc'd to stand a Tiptoe, and in this posture he stood for an Hour, if not two, till some that were in the Prison went and acquainted one Mr. Martyn Spensley an Alder∣man of the said Town, who sent to the Keeper of the Prison to desist from that Cruelty, up∣on which he was let loose from his said Thumb∣screw, and Pot-Hooks, and from his being Chain'd to the Mantle-Tree of the said Chim∣ney.