FOOTNOTES
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I confess, however, the inability I found to weave a catastrophe, such as I desired, out of these ordinary incidents. What I have here said, therefore, must not be interpreted as applicable to the concluding sheets of my work.
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An incident exactly similar to this was witnessed by a friend of the author, a few years since, in a visit to the prison of Newgate.
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A story extremely similar to this is to be found in the Newgate Calendar, vol. i. p. 382.
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See Howard on Prisons.
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In the case of the peine forte et dure. See State Trials, Vol. I. anno 1615.
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This seems to be the parody of a celebrated saying of John King of France, who was taken prisoner by the Black Prince at the battle of Poitiers.
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Eugene Aram. See Annual Register for 1759.
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William Andrew Home. Ibid.