Newgate in the Eighteenth Century
Anthony Babington describes life in an eighteenth century London prison for felons, debtors and rebels.
In the early eighteenth century three separate tracts were published in London, each of which contained a description of the interior of Newgate together with certain details about the lives of prisoners there.
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