[46] State Papers.
[47] Stowe, who adds: “note that gaolers buying their offices will deal hardly with pitiful prisoners.”
[48] Before Dios? [See p. 90.]
[49] The priests were subject to espionage even beyond the limits of the realm. A deposition is given in the State Papers made by one Arthur Saul, a prisoner in Newgate, to the effect that he had been employed by Secretary Winwood and the Archbishop of Canterbury to report what English were at Douay College, particulars of priests who have returned to England, of their meeting-places and conveyance of letters. “One of them,” it is added, “helped four recusants to escape from Newgate.”
[50] Chief of the Jesuits in England, afterwards executed (1608).
[51] “On the Queen’s day ten were taken at mass in Newgate.”—State Papers, 1602.
[52] This is beyond explanation.
[53] Without paying gaoler’s fees.
[54] There was a keeper and a deputy: the latter was resident, and did most of the work.
[55] Calendar, “The prisoners of Newgate’s condemnation,” declaring every verdict of the whole Bench at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey. April 22, 1642.