[85] ‘History of the Press-yard.’
[86] Ibid.
[87] See chap. x.
[88] This cobbler of Highgate was a zealous Jacobite, who turned out in his best suit of clothes on King James’s birthday. For this he was prosecuted, and sentenced to be whipped up and down Highgate Hill, with a year’s imprisonment in Newgate. He lived on the fat of the land during his incarceration, had quarters in the press-yard, and “lay in lodgings at ten or twelve shilling a week.”
[89] This was Bernardi. See post, p. 226.
[90] Bernardi.
[91] Mr. Marvell was either principal hangman or the assistant.
[92] ‘History of the Press-yard.’
[93] ‘Secret History of the Rebels in Newgate: giving an account of their daily behaviour from their commitment to their gaol delivery.’ Taken from the diary of a gentleman in the same prison—who was evidently no particular admirer of theirs.
[94] ‘History of the Press-yard.’